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Engineering Technician VI - Target Fabrication Technician - NWG 00088

North Wind Group

Engineering Technician VI - Target Fabrication Technician - NWG 00088

National
Part Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    This position is supporting the National Ignition Facility (NIF) which is the world's largest and most energetic laser facility ever built.  NIF is also the most precise and reproducible laser as well as the largest optical instrument. The giant laser has nearly 40,000 optics, which precisely guide, reflect, amplify, and focus 192 laser beams onto a fusion target about the size of a pencil eraser.   The NIF & PS Directorate has an opening for a talented individual to become a core member of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) Target Fabrication team.  Targets are precision assemblies comprised of the essential elements for experiments performed on the NIF laser and include complex manufactured components.  Consequently, they raise many interesting challenges requiring a combination of mechanical engineering and metrology science to measure and analyze. Your primary role will be to define, perform, and analyze data from complex metrology operations on target components and assemblies.  Due to the vast and varying types of experiments, NIF is a 24/7 operational facility. This position may require the candidate to have the flexibility to work overtime, shift and or weekends to accomplish goals. This position may also require working alternate schedules such as 4/10's or 12 hour shifts. The successful candidate will be required to pass various on-site training modules to pursue work assignments. ESSENTIAL DUTIES

    • Use optical coordinate measurement machines (OCMMs) to program and run complex metrology routines on target assemblies and provide crucial data for NIF laser experiments.
    • Use X-ray techniques, such as radiography, tomography, or diffraction as well as optical interferometric methods to characterize unique precision components.
    • Work with an interdisciplinary team to select metrology methods and define new measurement parameters and acceptance criteria for new components and assemblies, under limited direction.
    • Perform moderately complex to complex engineering calculations to support metrology operations.
    • Analyze data using error bar analysis and requirement verification techniques.
    • Write and refine MATLAB routines to process metrology data.
    • Provide technical solutions addressing moderately complex to complex problems with limited direction. -Train and mentor technical staff.
    • Develop characterization techniques for measuring products against required specifications using advanced microscopy, interferometry, or X-ray imaging.
    • Perform other duties as assigned.