Experimental Devices Group Lead

Responsibilities

• Core Duties:
  • Provide technical leadership on operations, maintenance, and configuration management for experimental operations.
  • Lead specification of system upgrades, life extension, and modernization, including managing scope, budget, and schedule.
  • Prepare and maintain engineering calculations and systems models to support system control and automation.
  • Evaluate data collected during testing, commissioning, and operations to make recommendations for improved design or operational practices.
  • Oversee the management of the machine and technical shop facilities, including various testing and preparation laboratories.
• Group Management and Leadership:
  • Lead, manage, and mentor a team of engineers and technical support staff, setting goals and performing performance appraisals.
  • Manage budget, resources, and schedules, and apply documentation and procedural standards.
  • Plan, organize, and supervise daily work, estimate personnel needs and schedule work to meet complex completion deadlines on assigned projects.
  • Foster a culture of responsibility, delegation of tasks, active mentoring, and professional communication.
  • Ensure the safety and safety compliance of all assigned staff and maintain constant vigilance for potential safety hazards in working areas.
  • Ensure compliance with environmental, safety, health, and quality program requirements.
• Engineering Operations Support:
  • Train for operational roles such as NSTX-U Chief Operations Engineer (COE).
  • Coordinate the daily startup, operation, and shutdown of numerous high power one-of-a-kind pressure, vacuum, and electrical systems.
  • Coordinate research operation of the NSTX-U device, including initiating each “pulse”.
  • Ensure operations stay within safety basis parameters defined for the facility.
  • Respond to fault conditions for NSTX-U operations and safety envelopes.
  • Assure proper conduct of operations communication across the operating team.

Qualifications

• Education and Experience: Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Physics with 12+ years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree with 10+ years of related experience.
• Relevant work experience can compensate lack of formal education in the specified fields.
• Progressively increasing supervisory, technical, and project management responsibilities, demonstrating the ability to work and make decisions with limited supervision.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Experience with vacuum, magnet, and hazardous liquid and gas systems including pumps, valves, piping, and control systems, and water chemistry is highly desirable.
• Experience with preventative maintenance of pumps, valves, and pressure relief devices, including experience developing and implementing comprehensive maintenance programs for plant systems is highly desirable.
• Experience in the preparation of technical documentation such as operational, maintenance and installation procedures, configuration drawings, and process flow diagrams is required.
• Knowledge of Lock-Out/Tag-Out (LOTO).
• Strong written and oral communication skills, including proficiency with office suites like MS Office and MS Excel or Google Workspace.

Certificates And Licenses

• PE license is highly desirable.

Physical Requirements

• Full or fully corrected vision, correct depth and color perception, occasional close work, work in low light conditions.
• Frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Full hand, arm and leg mechanical dexterity and coordination.
• Ability to work near static magnetic fields without medical restrictions.
• Capable of climbing ladders, continuous walking, standing or sitting.
• Will work in environments with industrial hazards such as potential oxygen deficiency, high noise, confined spaces, elevations, radiation, and where electrically/mechanically energized equipment may be present.
• Routinely wear protective clothing and equipment, primarily hardhats, safety glasses, and electrical PPE.

Working Conditions

• Most work will be done at the PPPL shops and laboratories, though vendor visits may be required when supporting ongoing projects.
• Work will generally be 1st shift, though 2nd shift or weekend work may be required depending on facility schedules.
• Staff in the group may potentially provide 24/7 coverage in support of experimental operations and maintaining routine communication and supervision with all assigned staff is required.
• On-call duties requiring occasional off-hours response to emergency or alarm conditions.
• May involve work in confined spaces, use of fall protection, other job-specific PPE.

Princeton University is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Salary Range

$177,900 to $284,300