Engineering Technician V - NIF Facility Operations and Maintenance; NWS
Listed on 2026-07-23
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Engineering
Maintenance Technician / Mechanic, HVAC Tech / Heating Engineer
Location: Livermore, CA
Title: Engineering Technician V - NIF Facility Operations and Maintenance (NWS 00903)
North Wind Services (NWS) is a high performing, low‑risk company with a successful history of contributing to their client’s missions. NWS executes and manages a wide range of technical services such as environmental investigation and restoration, construction, demolition, radioactive and hazardous waste management, public communication/involvement, information management, health and safety, industrial hygiene, and emergency response/HAZMAT services.
North Wind Services is actively seeking individuals who can contribute to national security within the science, technology, and engineering fields as part of our supplemental labor team at vital federal research and development installations supporting the Department of Energy. Qualified applicants must be a U.S. citizen, at least 18 years of age, and able to meet pre‑employment requirements including any required physicals, drug screen, and/or background investigation to satisfy clearance requirements from the Department of Energy.
Successful candidates will be employees of NWS supporting the missions of their federal client, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, CA. Pay, benefits, Human Resources, and employment management functions are all provided by NWS. As an NWS employee working at LLNL, within the client’s environment, you will complete day‑to‑day tasks, with direction from technical personnel directly employed by LLNL.
This position supports the National Ignition Facility (NIF) which is the world’s largest and most energetic laser facility ever built. NIF is also the most precise and reproducible laser as well as the largest optical instrument. The giant laser has nearly 40,000 optics, which precisely guide, reflect, amplify, and focus 192 laser beams onto a fusion target about the size of a pencil eraser.
The Engineering Department has an opening in the Laser Systems Engineering Operations Division for an Engineering Technician V to perform installation, maintenance, operation, and modification to the complex NIF Facility and Utility Systems. With general supervision, the successful candidate will work in the Facility and Infrastructure Systems (FInS) Work Center and report directly to the FInS Field Supervisor. The successful candidate will have a strong background in operating and maintaining NIF facility support systems and technical equipment.
The successful candidate must have demonstrated exceptional high ability in supporting previous large complex mechanical distribution systems and associated equipment.
NIF is a 24/7 operational facility, and operators typically work on a 3/12-4/12 schedule to support operations, with the last two hours of each shift being overtime. The dayshift work hours are from 06:30-19:30 and the owl shift hours are from 18:30-07:30. Dayshifts work either Sunday‑Tuesday and every other Wednesday, or Thursday to Saturday and every other Wednesday. Owl shifts work either Sunday to Tuesday and every other Saturday night or Wednesday to Friday and every other Saturday night.
12‑hour shifts are not guaranteed and may change in the future.
- Operate all the facility support systems to enable successful shot operations, such as process utility, specialty air systems, vacuum systems, cooling systems, pressurized gas systems, and others.
- Perform physical installation of typical or non‑typical equipment according to layouts of mechanical apparatus in accordance with national, state and local safety codes and practices.
- Assure that the as‑built configuration of the NIF Facility and utility systems are consistent with configuration drawing/diagrams.
- Plan mechanical inspections, corrective maintenance, preventative maintenance repairs, installation projects, including inspecting systems for conformance to design and applicable codes.
- Review existing system management processes to verify safety and performance of the building and utility systems in the NIF facility are properly maintained.
- Participate in NIF quarterly outages for utility and facility maintenance.
- Operate typical and…
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