Job Order Detail

Description

- Provides user support to general users, beamline members, fee-for-service clients, and CLS staff.
- Prepares beamline documentation in the form of written reports, guidelines, and log books, ensuring CLS standards and other relevant codes, standards, and practices are met.
- Coordinates installation, upgrade, and maintenance work on the beamline, working with other departments as appropriate.
- Maintains beamline QA and preventative maintenance procedures for the safe and efficient operation of the beamline.
- Develops beamline operating procedures and ensures they are properly documented.
- Undertakes and oversees medium to large projects on the beamline of high complexity, such as the operation, maintenance, and upgrade of a scientific endstation, providing scientific leadership within a project team.
- May act as project manager for beamline projects, ensuring completion is on schedule, within budget constraints, and project scope.
- May provide expert technical review of beamtime proposals and input to the Peer Review Committee (PRC) concerning general user proposals.
- Develops an approved research program (independently or collaboratively) that positions the CLS as a solutions provider in one of the four key sectors of health, agriculture, environment, and advanced materials, utilizing up to 20% of CLS resources (time, equipment, materials, beamtime).
- Working flexible hours, including evenings and weekends, is a requirement of the position.

Qualifications:
- For the Scientist level, a relevant Masters degree with five years of experience in a synchrotron or scientific laboratory is required. Or, a relevant Ph.D. with a minimum of one to two years of directly related experience in a synchrotron or scientific laboratory is required. For the Senior Scientist level, a relevant Ph.D. with a minimum of five years of directly related experience in a synchrotron laboratory is required.