About this role
- Grade 5 £29,588 - £33,951 pa
Grade 6 £33,951 - £38,784 pa
- Hours of work: Full-time - 35 hours per week
- Tenure: Fixed term until 31 December 2027
- The Department of Physics at the University of Liverpool is one of the worldwide construction sites for the upgrade of the Inner Tracker (ITk) for the high-luminosity upgrade of the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.
- The ITk upgrade is a new detector for measuring the momentum and origin of charged particles emanating from the proton-proton collisions in the centre of the experiment.
- You will be based in the Liverpool Semi-conductor Detector Centre cleanroom and/or Advanced Material Laboratory complex within the Department of Physics at Liverpool.
- You will join a team of 15 physicists and engineers working together on the manufacture and quality-control testing of mechanical and electrical elements for the endcap pixel tracker and the barrel strip tracker.
- You will participate in the precision mechanical assembly of the carbon fibre structures and gluing of components to form modules.
- You are required to follow written instructions reliably and to enter data into the construction database.
- You will have to use computer controlled metrology equipment for geometrical quality control of manufactured components.
- You will have to monitor and report yields, machine problems and the usage of consumables.
- You will be expected to attend technical meetings at Liverpool and occasionally off-site as the project proceeds.
- This role requires the highest standard of cleanroom working and mechanical assembly disciplines to be applied.
- You will be required to work from formal engineering drawings and specifications including tolerancing.
- Good sensory and physical co-ordination is essential given the small scale and delicate nature of the detectors.
- Past experience of working in a clean room environment, working with carbon fibre and geometrical quality control are highly-desirable.
- You will have good communication skills and the ability to instruct others (e.g. students) in the production procedures.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
We are committed to enhancing a workforce as diverse as our community and particularly encourage applicants who are of minoritised genders and ethnic backgrounds, living with a disability, and/or are members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
- Closing Date: 2 November 2026
- For full details and to apply online, please click on the 'Apply' button above.