Electronics / Mechanical Technician (MI, Lansing)
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Full-time position for electronics technicians to operate, install, and maintain superconducting particle accelerators. Collaborate with controls engineers to keep systems running and test new hardware.
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Join a fast-growing, high-tech research and manufacturing company located next to beautiful Old Town Lansing. Niowave is a leader in the development of superconducting particle accelerators for the production of medical and industrial radioisotopes. The team is now scaling up to meet a worldwide demand for critical radioisotopes. These include the most-commonly used nuclear medicine tracer, molybdenum-99, and the revolutionary cancer-killing actinium-225.
Summary/Objective
Full-time position for electronics technicians to operate, install, and maintain superconducting particle accelerators. Collaborate with controls engineers to keep systems running and test new hardware.
Job Duties
- Participate in operation of particle accelerators for research, development, and production runs
- Work with technicians, accelerator operators, engineers, and physicists to build, test, and deploy system components, including magnet coils and associated power supplies for focusing and steering electron beams high-voltage hardware radio-frequency systems, including vacuum-tube and solid-state amplifiers, high-power coax industrial PLC controls
- magnet coils and associated power supplies for focusing and steering electron beams
- high-voltage hardware
- radio-frequency systems, including vacuum-tube and solid-state amplifiers, high-power coax
- industrial PLC controls
- Diagnose failures and assist in repair, replacement, and improvements
- Work with vendors of mechanical and electrical equipment during troubleshooting
- Routing and terminating electrical controls and power wiring
- Assist manufacturing and assembly groups in the construction of new accelerator installations
Desired Skills and Qualifications
- Electrical circuit soldering and debugging
- Familiarity with use of common electrical tools (multimeters, oscilloscopes)
- Familiarity with common mechanical hardware and hand tools
- Ability to read electrical schematics and wiring diagrams
- Familiarity with PLCs and microwave electronics desired
- Associate?s Degree in Electronics or related field, or equivalent technical experience
Job Conditions
Participation in shift operation of accelerators including evening, night and weekend hours, and related on-call time
Move between offices and buildings to access accelerator hardware and prototypes
Operate computers and diagnostic hardware like multimeters and oscilloscopes
Safely lift equipment and move supports into place up to 50 lbs (and more using appropriate rigging)
Extract and communicate information from design documents, test reports, electrical schematics and manufacturing prints
*Please include a cover letter with your resume and application.
About Niowave
Manufactures medical radioisotopes and superconducting accelerators for cancer treatment.
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