Engineer tracking performance failure trends and enhancements for Automatic Train Control systems at TfL. Collaborating with cross - functional teams and mentoring ATC staff while delivering project management.
About the role
- Plasma Heating & Current Drive Engineer with focus on integrating RF systems. Contributing to fusion energy development in a hybrid work environment.
Responsibilities
- Deliver system integration activities for RF plant: physical installation, interfaces, alignment, assembly, and test.
- Lead or support waveguide installation & commissioning (including conditioning, leak checks, inspections, acceptance tests and performance verification).
- Troubleshoot, repair and maintain high-power microwave components and subsystems (e.g., waveguide, quasi-optics, vacuum windows, mode converters, launchers, arc/flashover protection, cooling).
- Support commissioning and operational readiness: procedures, checklists, interlocks proving, fault response, spares strategy, and preventive maintenance.
- Work with Controls, Vacuum, Electrical, Design and other operational teams to optimise performance and respond to experimental needs.
- Contribute to NBI and beamline activities: installation support, commissioning, fault finding, and interface management Therefore, we also welcome experience from other accelerator / beam systems
- Produce and maintain engineering documentation (requirements, test plans, risk assessments, method statements, operating procedures, maintenance plans).
- Prepare specifications and scopes of work for equipment procurement and installation contracts.
- Liaise with manufacturers, contractors and collaborators throughout the hardware lifecycle
- Maintain safe systems of work for your equipment and activities, contributing to strong operational discipline and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Commissioning / installation / operation / maintenance of complex technical systems
- Comfort in multi-discipline interfaces (mechanical installation, vacuum, cooling, controls, HV/LV, safety)
- Strong documentation habits and clear communication - able to work effectively with technicians, engineers, physicists, suppliers and operations teams.
- A safety-first mindset: ability to follow and improve safe systems of work.
- Degree (or equivalent experience) in engineering, engineering physics, applied physics, or a related discipline.
- Good knowledge of high-power RF technology: RF power sources, transmission lines, launching antennas, ancillary subsystems, RF related hazards and protection
- Practical experience in operation and maintenance of high-power (above 100 kW) RF equipment: commissioning, troubleshooting, control and interlocks
- Particle beam / accelerator systems (ion sources, HV/LV pulsed power, beam transport, diagnostics, vacuum beamlines)
- Familiarity with relevant design software and engineering tools
- Qualifications in high-power RF Electronics or similar.
Benefits
- Salary dependent on skills and experience and will be discussed from the outset
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Discretionary 3-day festive break depending on business needs
- Eligible for discretionary performance related bonus
- Share options scheme
- Pension scheme
- Financial benefits – including; group life insurance, critical illness, health cash plan and discount scheme
- Innovation and Merit bonuses
- Investment in training and development to support career progression
- Opportunity to work on and contribute to world class innovation
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