Application Deadline: 15 July 2025
General information
Offer title: Technician for ITF Operation
Reference: COL-ITF-25-8
Number of positions: 1
Workplace: via E.Amaldi 5/7, Loc. S.Stefano a Macerata – Cascina (Pisa)
Date of publication: 16 June 2025
Type of Contract: “Collaboratore Tecnico” (Technical Collaborator)
Contract Period: permanent contract subject to a probation period of 6 months
Expected date of employment: The earliest possible
Proportion of work: Full time
Remuneration: 35.635,60 € annual gross (Liv.IV Fascia 0)
Required level of education: High-school qualification in information technology or in the scientific or technical field
Sections: Interferometer Technology Department
Missions
The European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) is seeking a Technician for ITF Operation to join Interferometer Technology Department.
Activities
The selected candidate will work as a technician in the Operation Service team of the EGO Interferometer (ITF) Technology Department and will be required to work in shifts in the Control Room (including night and weekend shifts whenever needed). The role may require participation in a on-call service.
Following a period of training, the chosen candidate will have to:
- keep the ITF in the needed configuration, in accordance with the on-going scientific activity following established procedures and safety rules;
- provide support to the scientific crew working in the Control Room;
- perform routine operations as well as basic troubleshooting;
- check the correct functioning of the ITF by means of the appropriate monitoring systems;
- promptly recognize sub-system problems and undertake a first-level intervention and, in the case of more complex problems contact the relevant expert and assist him when necessary.
Following a period of training, the successful candidate will also be assigned tasks that involve background work (to either be performed during the shifts or during off-shift days).
Essential skills
- High-school qualification in information technology or in the scientific or technical field;
- A basic knowledge of UNIX/LINUX operating system
- Good knowledge of English
- No criminal convictions
Desired qualifications and experience
One or more of the following will be an asset:
- Ability to comprehend technical information, manuals, reports, as well as to prepare logbook entries, reports, etc.
- Experience of working in a team within an international and multidisciplinary environment;
- Good knowledge of Italian.
Work Context
The European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) is seeking a Technical Collaborator to join the Interferometer Technology Department.
EGO is an international consortium, founded by INFN and CNRS to foster European collaboration in gravitational-wave research. EGO is located in Cascina, near Pisa – Italy, and hosts and operates the gravitational-wave detector Virgo, a 3 km-long laser interferometer (ITF). The Virgo project involves the participation of about 130 institutions with more than 800 scientists, engineers and technicians from France, Italy, the Netherlands and other 13 European countries.
EGO welcomes applications from all suitably-qualified candidates, irrespective of gender, disability, marital or parental status, racial, ethnic or social origin, color, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.
Selection procedure
Only candidates who meet the above essential required qualifications and experience are admitted to the selection procedure. The evaluation of the candidates admitted to the procedure is assigned to a Selection Board appointed by the Director of EGO. The Selection Board will determine the evaluation criteria in the first meeting. The first phase of the selection will be based on a review of the Application Forms and other documents received in line with the above-mentioned essential and desired requirements. Only candidates who have obtained the minimum score established by the Selection Board in the first meeting will be able to access to the second phase of the selection, which will consist of an interview. During the interview the Selection Board will verify the knowledge of the English language, and the other desired qualifications and experience.
At the end of the interviews the Selection Board will draw up a ranking of the candidates who obtained at least the minimum score established during the first meeting.
The completion of the hiring is subject to Italian law D.Lgs. 81/08 art.41 “Sorveglianza Sanitaria”.
The EGO Consortium has the free right not to proceed with the recruitment.
Privacy policy
Controller: European Gravitational Observatory – email: ego-gw@pec.it
Responsible for data – email: privacy@ego-gw.it
Under Article 13 of UE Regulation (EU) 2016/79 of the European Parliament and of the Council, required personal data will be exclusively collected and treated for purposes strictly connected to the selection procedure also with the use of computerized procedures, according to current law and regulations concerning the implementation of this kind of activity.
Providing such data to EGO is necessary for the evaluation of participation requirements and of the holding of titles; failure to provide these data may compromise such evaluation.
Data will be kept only for the period required by the selection, evaluation and audit procedures.
EGO guarantees each person the right of access to personal data, as well as the rectification, or erasure or restriction of them, as well as the right to object to their processing; such requests shall be addressed to privacy@ego-gw.it.
Application Procedure:
Candidates have to send their CV and the EGO Application Form (to be found here) together with a cover letter and eventual reference letters, to jobs@ego-gw.it quoting the reference number of this vacancy notice.
Constraints and risks
None
The Director
Prof. Massimo Carpinelli