Instrument controls engineer

The European Spallation Source - ESS, a partnership of European countries building a worldclass Neutron science facility. ESS can offer a variety of things, such as passionate and international colleagues, a vibrant melting pot of diversity, and a challenging, exciting and high paced work environment. We value and need expertise, innovative minds and great ways of leading and interacting with people from all over the world.

Come and change the world with us! 

ESS is now looking for a Instrument controls engineer to support our Hardware and Integration group. 

About the Team
The Hardware and Integration group is responsible for the integration of all hardware in the ESS facility into the integrated control system. This includes a diverse flora of different systems ranging from PLC systems for water flow control to fast FPGA-based data acquisition systems. All integrated towards the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System software framework. 

About the role
The main responsibilities associated with this position are:

• Interacting with Integrated Control System (ICS) stakeholders to define requirements, design and develop control systems for neutron instruments

• Document and analyse stakeholder and internal requirements
• Take part in developing control systems and control system integrations
• Take part in the agile development team supporting our instrument and beamline projects
• Implement and realize the designed solutions
• Troubleshoot and optimize performance of existing solutions
• Maintain and support the delivered solutions

• Interacting with ICS’s partners

• Support partners with technical discussion and reviews
• As part of the agile team supplement and integrate deliverables from partners
• Maintain and support systems delivered by partners

• Participate in planning and reporting 

• Reporting weekly progress/issues/next steps to work package managers

• Ensure that all work is executed in accordance with ESS quality assurance and safety procedures
• Actively participate in work with deliverable and process quality

About You:

We are building ESS from the ground up, so we need someone who is comfortable not only following procedures, but also creating them. We attach great importance to personality and attitude, so we're looking for a real team player: Someone who is sociable, has excellent communication skills, who likes to collaborate with different people and who is committed to helping this amazing project to realise its full potential. We need a hands-on self-starter who is able to work in a structured, organised, responsible and – most importantly – safe way.

For you to be successful in this role, we require that you have: 

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in engineering, technology or science
• 2 years or longer of experience in scientific collaboration in a role enabling collaboration between scientists and engineers 
• 2 years or longer of experience in writing technical documentation for scientific instruments and experiments
• Experience from work with software development (C/C++ or similar)
• Experience in agile development and collaboration, preferably in a Scrum team 
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Excellent oral and written English skills, including developing technical control system documentation in English

It would further be to your advantage if you also have:

• Higher academic degree in related topic
• Knowledge of other European languages
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Experience from EPICS integration and development

• Experience from “big science” projects
• Experience and knowledge about quality assurance and verification of control systems
• Experience from complex, international technical/scientific projects

What ESS will offer
At ESS you can expect:

• An opportunity to contribute to the future discoveries within neutron science
• A work environment filled with innovative minds and people from all over the world
• A challenging, exciting and high-paced work environment
• Market competitive compensation that is individual and differentiated according to role, responsibilities, individual skills, abilities, and achievements
• Benefits including 30 days of annual leave as well as more than 10 days of public holiday and company days off or days with limited working hours, flexible working arrangements and focus on work life balance
• and, where applicable, relocation support and allowances may also be available

Duration & Location

The position is permanent with six months initial probation period. Your work place will be situated in Lund, Sweden. 

Application & Contact

If you see yourself in what we’re looking for, please provide your CV and motivation letter in English by clicking on “apply” and following the instructions. Please be aware that we can only accept direct applications made via the ESS website.

The last day for receiving application is November 11th 2022 - so submit your application as soon as you can. Please quote the job reference number ESD-13641 in your application.

Certain roles at ESS require health and safety checks, which may be required in the final stages of the recruitment process.

For further information regarding the position, please contact the Recruiting manager – Karl Vestin – via [email protected]. For more information regarding the ESS recruitment process, please follow this link https://europeanspallationsource.se/ess-recruitment-process or contact Recruiter – Sara Tenggren – at [email protected].

For trade union information, please contact Unionen representative Conny Wendt at [email protected] or SACO/Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers representative Yngve Levinsen at [email protected].

We look forward to receiving your application soon!