Job Description
About Us
Diamond Light Source is the UKs national synchrotron; a huge scientific facility designed to produce very intense beams of X-rays, infrared, and ultraviolet light. Our scientists use the light to study a vast range of subject matter, from new medicines and treatments for disease to innovative engineering and cutting-edge technology.
Diamond is one of the most advanced scientific facilities in the world, and its pioneering capabilities and talented staff are helping to keep the UK at the forefront of scientific research.
About the Role
We now have an opportunity for a Senior Detector / Electronics Technician (known internall as Detector Technician), working as part of an experienced multi-disciplinary team, to build, commission and maintain world-leading detector instrumentation used by international scientists.
The work is primarily Electronics based but can include some mechanical work.
You will support the detector group in the assembly, installation and maintenance of detectors in the laboratory and in the field. Our detectors form part of a beamline any one of more than thirty-five experiments running simultaneously throughout the year.
Further responsibilities will include:
1. Maintaining, development and upgrading of existing detector components.
2. Creating some design work for interfacing detectors to beamlines involving basic electronics design.
3. ...