Project Coordination Engineer

The ESRF is the sole beneficiary of a European project (STREAMLINE) that aims to ensure the long-term sustainability of research at its micro and nano X-ray beamlines in the context of its ESRF-EBS upgrade. The full exploitation of the ESRF-EBS poses new long-term sustainability challenges arising from the exploitation of its unprecedented X-ray beams. The ESRF runs an extensive public user programme, allowing scientists from all over the world to access its 30 publicly funded beamlines and part of its 13 private beamlines. With the ESRF-EBS upgrade more users, more samples and more data through faster and new experiments are expected, and the ESRF has to adapt its procedures to this new context. Furthermore new services can be created.

The ESRF User Office ensures the efficient and smooth running of this external user programme. Within the STREAMLINE project, the User Office is leading a work package that will update user tools, administrative procedures and access routes to permit a higher throughput of users, experiments and samples in the light of the EBS.

As Project Coordination Engineer in the User Office you will define the framework for future user administration workflows and procedures, and deliver the specifications for the new ESRF User Portal (Scientific Management Information System).

To meet this objective, and in close collaboration with the Head of the User Office, the successful candidate is expected to:

• Acquire an in-depth understanding and knowledge of the current user operation procedures and the various actors involved in the workflows
• Identify procedural improvements and opportunities for new tools to modernise user administration workflows and procedures, and their interfacing with other systems;
• Design and elaborate the functionalities required;
• Elaborate and document the detailed specifications in collaboration with the SMIS developers;
• Ensure the follow-up of implementation and testing, with pilot runs when