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Because this PR piece is about getting in the news and guerrilla marketing. Are you a passionate engineer who is at ease with powerful high voltage equipment?
by Create 10y ago
Because this PR piece is about getting in the news and guerrilla marketing.
Are you a passionate engineer who is at ease with powerful high voltage equipment? Are you ready to become a key player in the design, development, production, installation and commissioning of some of the largest power converters in the world? Take part!
http://jobs.web.cern.ch/job/11871 http://jobs.web.cern.ch/job/11871
Blaming a bird or a small mammal makes cute propaganda. This wasn't always the case: in 1999 three breakdowns have occurred in 18 kV transformers, causing major power cuts and beam losses totalling 3.5 days. Animals didn't take the blame in 2008 for the failure of a power transformer on one of the surface points of the LHC.
And a warning to non-western members:
"The cost [...] has been evaluated, taking into account realistic labor prices in different countries. The total cost is X (with a western equivalent value of Y) [where Y>X]
source: LHCb calorimeters : Technical Design Report
ISBN: 9290831693 cdsweb.cern.ch/record/494264
On top of the above treatment, the usual package for prospective employees:
Resolution of the CERN Staff Council
- the Management does not propose to align the level of basic CERN salaries with those chosen as the basis for comparison;
- in the new career system a large fraction of the staff will have their advancement prospects, and consequently the level of their pension, reduced with respect to the current MARS system;
- the overall reduction of the advancement budget will have a negative impact on the contributions to the CERN Health Insurance System (CHIS);
http://cds.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2015/46/Staff%20Asso.. http://cds.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2015/46/Staff%20Asso....
Pensions which will be applicable to new recruits as of 1 January 2012; the Management and CERN Council adopted without any concertation and decided in June 2011 to adopt very unfavourable mesures for new recruits. http://www.gac-epa.org/History/Bulletins/42-2012-04/Bulletin.. http://www.gac-epa.org/History/Bulletins/42-2012-04/Bulletin....