Senior Manager, Diagnostic Equipment

Senior Manager, Diagnostic Support Equipment

Devens, MA
• SPARC Tokamak Team – Tokamak Systems
• Full-time
• On-site

Commonwealth Fusion Systems is on a mission to deliver the urgent transition to fusion energy. Combining decades of research, top talent, and new technologies, we’re designing and building commercially viable fusion power plants. And we're working with policymakers and suppliers to build the energy industry of the future. We’re in the best position to make it happen. Since 2018, we’ve raised nearly $3 billion in capital, making us the largest and leading private fusion company in the world.

Now we’re looking for more thinkers, doers, builders, and makers to join us. People who’ll bring new perspectives, solve tough problems, and thrive as part of a team. If that’s you and this role fits, we want to hear from you.

The SPARC Diagnostics Team is responsible for fielding instrumentation to measure the plasma for real-time control and to enable scientists to investigate burning plasmas. A majority of the team is focused on the instrumentation that observes the plasma directly and are SPARC’s “eyes and ears”. This position is to lead the team that is the “arms and legs”, providing common engineering solutions to enable a wide variety of diagnostics to be cost-effectively fielded in the vacuum vessel, on the cryostat, in the Tokamak Hall and in one of five dedicated Diagnostic Lab spaces.

This support equipment is highly interface constrained and helps to provide solutions between instrumentation systems or with other structural members (e.g. the building or free-standing pressure vessels). It includes the design and deployment of large concrete and steel structures for radiation shielding, small and large equipment platforms and solutions for cabling and small diameter piping. When viewed from outside, the distinction between support equipment and scientific instrumentation effectively vanishes, but internal to the Diagnostics Team this breakdown helps to facilitate speed and quality.

The Senior Manager of the Diagnostic Support Equipment (DSE) team is expected to provide team leadership to ~10 direct and indirect staff members as well as carry out responsibilities of an individual contributor on an as needed basis to facilitate the on-time delivery of DSE hardware. The role of the Manager will evolve over the course of the SPARC project as we move from design to operation, but is envisioned to have the Primary Responsibilities listed below.

Candidates will work as part of an integrated team that includes many instrumentation leads as well as science staff from inside and outside of CFS. Experience working on a tokamak or fusion plasma diagnostics is not required and CFS welcomes applications from non-tokamak or non-fusion backgrounds that can help deliver SPARC’s diagnostic capabilities.

• Proactively identify where challenges faced by one or more instrumentation teams can be best solved by your team creating or modifying a common set of parts
• Work with teams inside of CFS to path-find how to qualify the designs of Diagnostic Support Equipment systems that are unique or first-of-a-kind for the Tokamak Hall or Diagnostic Labs
• Provide technical oversight to help ensure your team’s completion of their component design and communicate risks and needs to the SPARC Project
• Shepherd the completion of assembly DSE systems, communicating safety concerns, risks and rework needs to the broader Diagnostic Team
• Provide line-management support to your team, which presently consists of the system leads and dedicated engineers and designers
• Assist the DSE system leads in maintaining communication and well-defined interfaces with others, both inside and outside of Diagnostics Team
• Identify where the overall complexity in SPARC Diagnostics could be reduced through shared design solutions, and act as decision maker for changes
• Ensure the planning and delivery of your team’s components to ensure diagnostics can achieve Commissioning and Operations milestones on-schedule

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