At Jefferson Lab, you’ll champion cutting-edge science and operational excellence while shaping the future of discovery. Join us and make your mark – where excellence meets purpose, and great minds truly matter.

Salary: $37,700 - $46,700 (SI II)

What your job will be like:

Provide technical services to accelerator operations and other lab initiatives. Responsible for the support of engineering staff in the design, maintenance and repair of accelerator electrical systems. PCB testing and repair, soldering, chassis wiring and field cable fabrication and installation.

In this job you will:

Build and test electrical systems for the accelerator.
Maintain or improve equipment in the accelerator and other supported systems.

Experience

Required: none

Education

Required: Must be enrolled full time in a local college (2 year program) or University (4 year program) in an technical field of study

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Medium: Knowledge of electronics and basic electronic test equipment.
Good written and verbal communication skills and be able to work in small groups.
Self-starter who is curious.

About Jefferson Lab

Join a community with a common purpose of solving the most challenging scientific and engineering problems of our time. The Jefferson Lab campus is located in southeastern Virginia amidst a vibrant and growing technology community.

A career at Jefferson Lab is more than a job. You will be part of “big science” and work alongside top scientists and engineers from around the world unlocking the secrets of our visible universe. Managed by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is entering an exciting period of mission growth and is seeking new team members ready to apply their skills and passion to have an impact. You could call it work, or you could call it a mission. We call it a challenge. We do things that will change the world.

Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (JSA) manages and operates the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab). JSA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  

JSA is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities (unless doing so will result in an undue hardship). If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to recruiting@jlab.org or contact Human Resources by calling (757) 269-7100 and selecting option 1 between 8 am – 5 pm EST to provide the nature of your request.

Employment with JSA is conditional upon DOE approval if at any time during your employment you are participating in a Foreign Government Talent Recruitment Program or Affiliated activity. Generally, such programs/activities include any foreign-state-sponsored attempt to acquire U.S.-funded scientific research through programs run or funded by the government that target scientists, engineers, students, academics, researchers, and entrepreneurs of all nationalities working or educated in the United States. This includes positions or appointments, both domestic and foreign, titled academic, professional, or institutional appointments whether or not remuneration is received and whether full-time, part-time or voluntary.

The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, located in Newport News, Virginia, is operated by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. The lab’s primary mission is to explore the fundamental nature of confined states of quarks and gluons, including the nucleons that make up the mass of the visible universe. Jefferson Lab is also a world leader in the development of the superconducting radiofrequency technology used for the lab’s Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility. This technology is the basis for an increasing array of applications at Jefferson Lab, other DOE labs, and in the international scientific community. The DOE has chosen Jefferson Lab as the lead for its future High Performance Data Facility. The HPDF will be a $300-500 million computing and data infrastructure resource that will provide transformational capabilities for data analysis, networking and storage for the nation’s research enterprise. It will provide researchers with tools, methods and technologies to maximize the scientific value of data. Jefferson Lab has more than 900 full-time employees and an international scientific user community of more than 1,700 researchers whose work has resulted in over 3,960 scientific papers and journal articles and nearly 200 patents. Research at Jefferson Lab also contributes to thesis research for about one-third of all U.S. Ph.D.s awarded annually in nuclear physics. The lab’s outstanding STEM workforce development program for teachers and scientists, as well as K-12 and undergraduate students, builds the critical knowledge and skills in the physical sciences that will help solve the nation’s future challenges.

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