Systems Engineer

- Serve as system owner for operational water systems supporting ALS and ALS-U. - Develop preventive and predictive maintenance programs for cooling water infrastructure. - Monitor system performance, reliability, and lifecycle condition. - Troubleshoot operational issues including flow instability, thermal excursions, equipment failures, water chemistry concerns, and leakage events. - Coordinate outages, repairs, commissioning activities, and maintenance schedules to minimize operational impact. - Support 24/7 operational reliability and rapid response during facility incidents or system failures.

- Manage water-system-related projects from conceptual design through installation and commissioning. - Coordinate with contractors, vendors, installation teams, and facilities personnel. - Develop project schedules, cost estimates, and technical scopes of work. - Review installation quality and ensure conformance with engineering specifications. - Support startup, testing, balancing, and commissioning activities.

- Maintain accurate engineering documentation including drawings, specifications, operating procedures, maintenance procedures, system inventories, and engineering calculations. - Support configuration management and change control processes. - Develop operational standards and best practices for facility water systems.

- Ensure all activities are conducted in accordance with Integrated Safety Management (ISM), EH&S requirements, laboratory policies, and applicable regulatory standards. - Participate in hazard analyses, readiness reviews, and safety assessments. - Support lockout/tagout planning and operational safety procedures.

- Work is performed in office, laboratory, mechanical room, and construction environments. - Occasional after-hours or weekend support may be required during shutdowns, commissioning, or operational events. - Position may require access to confined mechanical spaces and industrial equipment areas.

This position reports to the ALS-U / ALS Engineering or Facilities Management organization and works closely with accelerator systems, facilities engineering, operations, and scientific staff across the laboratory.

This role is critical to ensuring reliable thermal and utility performance for ALS-U construction and long-term ALS operations. The Mechanical Engineer – Water Systems directly contributes to facility uptime, equipment protection, operational reliability, and successful delivery of the ALS-U project mission.