Title: Lead Mechanical Engineer - EIC Cryogenics

Location:
Newport News, Virginia, US, 23606

Category: Engineering and Design

Work Arrangement Type: On-Site - No remote work

Classification: Senior Staff Engineer

Description:
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.

The good-faith pay range for this role is $139,400 - $200,100 per year. Actual compensation may vary and may be above the posted range based on factors such as a candidate's skills, experience, education, certifications, and work location.

What your job will be like:
The candidate will supervise a group of Mechanical Engineers. Will work on multiple major cryogenic projects of the highest complexity, which include a sub-atmospheric 2 Kelvin temperature cryogenic system. Will be responsible for long-range planning, budgeting, and progress tracking.

In this job you will:
Lead and direct the work of other mechanical engineers and interact with other plant engineers, design engineers and technicians for the design, fabrication, and installation efforts in multiple complex projects.

Provide support to the management for the Lab’s cryogenic contribution to the most advanced and complex Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) project providing work planning, execution strategy, acquisition strategy, and progress assessment.

Provide mechanical design support to multi-laboratory collaborative cryogenic projects and inhouse project based on priorities.

Generate ideas and provide innovative solutions to cryogenic systems' highest complexity mechanical design challenges.

Ensure transfer of mechanical design knowledge [thermal and structural analysis] from senior staff to junior mechanical engineers.

May motivate young mechanical engineers to work on challenging thermal and structural analysis work to increase their know-how.

May introduce new ideas to enhance the mechanical engineering design productivity.

May mentor summer students to expand the knowledge base and to increase the popularity of cryogenic engineering.

Experience

Required: 15 or more years relevant experience

Preferred: 4 or more years related to cryogenics

Education

Required: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Preferred: Master's Degree in Engieering

Experience and Education Exchange

Education above the minimum may be substituted for experience.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

High levels of technical knowledge, ingenuity and creativity.

Develops and applies advanced technologies, engineering principles, theories and concepts. Broad knowledge about the design and operation of systems outside of specialty.

Widely recognized as a technical expert within the professional community. Accomplishments contribute to state of the art field in the area of expertise both within and outside the lab.

Able to effectively train people outside his/her work group.

Able to give effective presentations to critical/high level customers and effectively represent work group on review panels and cross-organizational teams.

Can write convincing proposals and reports with all necessary backup material for external consumption.

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 SURATech, 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.

Total Rewards at Jefferson Lab

At Jefferson Lab, we believe that a comprehensive employee benefits program is an important and meaningful part of the compensation employees receive. Our benefits program includes, but is not limited to:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Care Plans • Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time-off and Leave Programs (Paid Parental, vacation, holidays, and sick leave)
• 401(k) Plan – 9% Lab Contribution; 100% vested • Flexible Work Arrangements

(Remote & Alternate Work Schedules available)

• Tuition Assistance, Training and Professional Development Programs
• Live near the waterways of the Chesapeake Bay region with access to nearby beaches,

mountains, and all major metropolitan centers on the East Coast

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

SURATech 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 SURATech 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.

Nearest Major Market: Hampton Roads