Electrical Cabling Project Technician

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Job description

Electrical Cabling Project Technician Geneva, Switzerland
EN-EL-CS-2025-277-LD

What you'll do
Join the Cabling Section as an electrical technician, and play a key role in expanding, strengthening, and maintaining CERN's control and power cable installations. Your work will support essential systems within the CERN accelerators, such as alarm systems, process control systems, beam instrumentation, and magnet powering systems.

Your responsibilities
Analyse cable installation requests and liaising with requesters to obtain any missing information.
Conduct the necessary studies including the definition of the cable types, the connectors assembly, the wire conventions, the routing and the mechanical supports, in collaboration with users and considering the constraints of the work environment.
Create bills of quantities and budgets.
Organise cabling and de-cabling campaigns with external and internal coordination stakeholders (i.e contractors, transport and handling service, coordination team).
Ensure the preparation of detailed work documentation (e.g., drawings, cable lists, connector assembly procedures, test procedures).
Carry out risk assessments related to the execution of cabling work, identifying potential hazards and defining mitigation measures to ensure safety and compliance with CERN standards.
Manage the logistics required for cabling activities, such as material delivery, scaffolding setup, and site access.
Organise and manage worksite meetings.
Monitor and report the progress, the safety and the quality of the works.
Perform inspection, testing and acceptance of completed work.

Your profile
Demonstrated experience in planning, preparing, and overseeing industrial electrical cabling activities, including the implementation of lockout/tagout (LOTO) procedures.
Strong experience with control and power cables, including their connectors.
Experience in verifying the technical quality and compliance of cabling installations with applicable standards and specifications; Experience in technical supervision of contractors.
Technical certificate or general secondary education or equivalent relevant experience in the field of Industrial Electrical Installation or a related field.

Your skills
Design and manufacturing of high-voltage cables and connectors;
Design, construction, commissioning, and maintenance of electrical cable systems;
Design and manufacturing of low and high-voltage cables and connectors;
Drives work / projects along and sees them through to their conclusion;
Listens actively to others and lets others speak;
Takes initiative beyond regular tasks and makes things happen;
Anticipates obstacles; assesses alternative solutions in order to have a fall-back plan;
Builds and maintains constructive and effective work relationships;
Spoken and written English or French, with a commitment to learn the other language.

Ideal start date: 01/03/2026
Contract duration: 60 month contract
Grade range: 3
Benchmark job: 300090 - Mechanical Technician
Job flexibility: Hybrid

Employment conditions
A valid driving licence.
Shift work, stand-by duty, and work during nights, Sundays and official holidays, when required by the needs of the Organisation.
Interventions in underground installations.
Work in Radiation Areas.

Job location

Switzerland

Job requirements

Skills: seal wires - wire harnesses - electrical wire accessories - splice cable - use wire hand tools - bind wire - use wire processing machinery - strip wire - repair wiring

Education level: Short-cycle tertiary education