Engineering Technician V - PCS Operations & Maintenance Technician (NWS 00940)

North Wind Services LLC; Livermore (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

North Wind Services (NWS) supports Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, CA. The Engineering Technician V will operate the Power Conditioning System (PCS) and the Plasma-Electrode Pockels Cell (PEPC) systems under LLNL guidance, following detailed procedures.

This role involves high voltage power systems, pulsed power hardware, embedded diagnostics, and collaboration with LLNL technical staff to maintain the NIF laser facility.

Job description

Location: Livermore, CA
Title: Engineering Technician V - PCS Operations & Maintenance Technician (NWS 00940)

North Wind Services (NWS) is a high performing, low risk company with a successful history of contributing to their client's missions. NWS executes and manages a wide range of technical services such as environmental investigation and restoration, construction, demolition, radioactive and hazardous waste management, public communication/involvement, information management, health and safety, industrial hygiene, and emergency response/HAZMAT services.

North Wind Services is actively seeking individuals who can contribute to national security within the science, technology, and engineering fields as part of our supplemental labor team at vital federal research and development installations supporting the Department of Energy. Qualified applicants must be a US citizen, at least 18 years of age, and able to meet pre-employment requirements including any required physicals, drug screen, and/or background investigation to satisfy clearance requirements from the Department of Energy.

Successful candidates will be employees of NWS supporting the missions of their federal client, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, CA. Pay, benefits, Human Resources, and employment management functions are all provided by NWS. As an NWS employee working at LLNL, within the client's environment, you will complete day-to-day tasks, with direction from technical personnel directly employed by LLNL.

This position supports 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.

Engineering Technician V

The NIF&PS Directorate has an opening for an Engineering Technician V. The NIF laser is the world's most powerful laser system, capable of producing over 2 MJ of optical energy. The successful candidate will operate the Power Conditioning System (PCS) and the Plasma-Electrode Pockels Cell (PEPC) systems through the high-level computer control system following detailed procedures. The PCS employs one hundred ninety-two high voltage (24 KV), high-energy (1.7 MJ per module) capacitor bank modules used to power the large flash lamps in the NIF solid-state laser amplifiers. The PEPC system employs high voltage electronics and sophisticated controls hardware and software to implement an optical switch topology for the 192 beams of the NIF main laser. These systems include: high voltage power supplies, pulsed power hardware and circuits, analog, and digital controls hardware and software, embedded computers and diagnostics. The successful