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DRILL LEAD - HOT WATER DRILLER/INSTALLER - ICECUBE UPGRADE

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University of Wisconsin-Madison
Location
Madison

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Employment Type
Full Time
Institution Type
Four-Year Institution

Job Details

DRILL LEAD - HOT WATER DRILLER/INSTALLER - ICECUBE UPGRADE

Job no: 99189-AS
Work type: Staff-Full Time
Department:VCRGE/PHYS SCI LAB/PSL
Location: Madison
Categories: Engineering, Research, Scientific

Position Summary:

The Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) is a research and development organization within the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education. PSL develops unique instrumentation solutions used in scientific research programs all over the world. Our expertise spans the entire engineering process from initial conceptual design, through engineering development, fabrication, testing, and on-site installation. We have experience with projects at every scale and level of complexity.

The IceCube Upgrade (ICU) is a project to design, build, and deploy instrumentation that will upgrade the scientific capability of the existing IceCube neutrino observatory at the South Pole. The current detector is comprised of 86 strings and over 5,000 optical sensors buried up to 2.5 km deep in the ice at the South Pole. The ICU project will add seven new strings of instrumentation near the center of the existing telescope array. Deployment of the sevel additional strings is planned for late 2022 into early 2023. This position will directly report to the IceCube Upgrade Drilling Project Manager with the provision of dotted line reporting to the Physical Sciences Laboratory Director and the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC).

Position Duties:

List of Duties

Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: Diversity and Inclusion

Degree and Area of Specialization:

B.S. in Engineering or related field preferred or equivalent experience.

Minimum Years and Type of Relevant Work Experience:

Required:
- Experience leading a technical team or teams of 10 to 30 persons
- Experience supervising, tasking and lining out work activities to others
- Experience coordinating activities & logistics of materials and people
- Understanding and promoting standard and custom safety protocols
- Ability to troubleshoot mechanical and electrical systems, and provide input to design/repair/upgrade
- Broad and varied experience working with a wide-range of mechanical systems involving commercial-industrial large machinery such as pumps, boilers, motors, winches, hoists
- A high degree of mechanical and electrical aptitude in custom configurations
- Familiarity with computer systems and operating through various user interfaces
- Experience setting up scientific/mechanical equipment in remote locations and challenging environment
- Ability to assemble and reassemble mechanical systems
- Must by physically fit and able to pass a thorough physical examination per National Science Foundation (NSF)/Antarctic Support Contractor (ASC) requirements
- Must be capable of and willing to work in extreme cold environment, up to 12 hour shifts, up to 7 days a week, for two to three months per year

Preferred:
- Ice drilling, Antarctic experience, or experience working at field-sites, or remote locations
- Familiarity with the IceCube Enhanced Hot Water Drill (EHWD) or equivalent experience with thermal, high pressure, hot-water, and oil-fired systems
- Familiarity with USAP cargo system, shipping protocols, documentation, DOT regulations

Additional Information:

Successful candidates will be required to pass a physical evaluation required by the National Science Foundation.

A period of training in Wisconsin in the summer or early fall may be necessary before deployment to the South Pole. Deployment dates will vary from late October to late November, and drillers will live at the South Pole until early to mid-February.

This is a demanding job, working with a large team of scientists and engineers in a remote location along with living with a small isolated community at the South Pole. For the right individual, this will be an exceptionally rewarding job with a role in one of the most ambitious science projects in the World.

Department(s):

A348900-VCRGE/PHYS SCI LAB/PSL

Work Type:

Full Time: 100%

Appointment Type, Duration:

Ongoing/Renewable

Salary:

Minimum $55,000 ANNUAL (12 months)
Depending on Qualifications

Instructions to Applicants:

To be considered, applications must be submitted online at https://jobs.wisc.edu. Please click on the "Apply Now" button to start the application process. You will be required to upload a resume and cover letter. In your cover letter, please address your experience with the knowledge and skills of the position.

Contact:

Elizabeth Danielak
edanielak@psl.wisc.edu
608-877-2237
Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1 (out-of-state: TTY: 800.947.3529, STS: 800.833.7637) and above Phone number (See RELAY_SERVICE for further information. )

Official Title:

SR INSTRUMENT TECH(S54BN) or INSTRUMENTATION TECH(S54DN)

Employment Class:

Academic Staff-Renewable

Job Number:

99189-AS

The University of Wisconsin is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We promote excellence through diversity and encourage all qualified individuals to apply.

If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability, you can find information about how to make a request at the following website: https://oed.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/

Employment will require a criminal background check. It will also require you and your references to answer questions regarding sexual violence and sexual harassment.

The University of Wisconsin System will not reveal the identities of applicants who request confidentiality in writing, except that the identity of the successful candidate will be released. See Wis. Stat. sec. 19.36(7).

The Annual Security and Fire Safety Report contains current campus safety and disciplinary policies, crime statistics for the previous 3 calendar years, and on-campus student housing fire safety policies and fire statistics for the previous 3 calendar years. UW-Madison will provide a paper copy upon request; please contact the University of Wisconsin Police Department.

Applications Open: Jul 5 2019 Central Daylight Time
Applications Close:Jul 19 2019 11:55 PM Central Daylight Time

Organization

In achievement and prestige, the University of Wisconsin–Madison has long been recognized as one of America's great universities. A public, land-grant institution, UW–Madison offers a complete spectrum of liberal arts studies, professional programs and student activities, and many of its programs are hailed as world leaders in instruction, research and public service. Spanning 935 acres along the southern shore of Lake Mendota, the campus is located in the city of Madison.

The university traces its roots to a clause in the Wisconsin Constitution, which decreed that the state should have a prominent public university. In 1848, Nelson Dewey, Wisconsin’s first governor, signed the act that formally created the university, and its first class, with 17 students, met in a Madison school building on February 5, 1849.

From those humble beginnings, the university has grown into a large, diverse community, with about 40,000 students enrolled each year. These students represent every state in the nation, as well as countries from around the globe, making for a truly international population.

UW–Madison is the oldest and largest campus in the University of Wisconsin System, a statewide network of 13 comprehensive universities, 13 freshman-sophomore transfer colleges and an extension service. One of two doctorate-granting universities in the system, UW–Madison’s specific mission is to provide “a learning environment in which faculty, staff and students can discover, examine critically, preserve and transmit the knowledge, wisdom and values that will help insure the survival of this and future generations and improve the quality of life for all.”

The university achieves these ends through innovative programs of research, teaching and public service. Throughout its history, UW–Madison has sought to bring the power of learning into the daily lives of its students through innovations such as residential learning communities and service-learning opportunities. Students also participate freely in research, which has led to life-improving inventions ranging from more fuel-efficient engines to cutting-edge genetic therapies.

The Wisconsin Idea

Students, faculty and staff are motivated by a tradition known as the “Wisconsin Idea,” first started by UW President Charles Van Hise in 1904, when he declared that he would “never be content until the beneficent influence of the university [is] available to every home in the state.” The Wisconsin Idea permeates the university’s work and helps forge close working relationships among university faculty and students, and the state’s industries and government.

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