For its Maintenance, Support, and Engineering Department, within the Directorate of Operations, at the La Silla Paranal Observatory, near Antofagasta, Chile; ESO is advertising an International Staff member position of Optics Engineer.

The successful candidate will have the following main duties:

As Optics Engineer, within the Paranal Optics Group and responsible for optical systems:

• Align and maintain the optical alignment of the telescopes (and VLTI interferometer)
• Lead and check optical performance of the telescopes after coatings and critical maintenance and realign the systems if necessary.
• Ensure the availability of the telescope optics to minimize technical downtime by performing maintenance activities (corrective and preventive) and obsolescence analysis
• Lead root cause analysis, recovery plans and write related reports and procedures
• Propose and implement change requests (analysis, design, implementation, commissioning, documentation)
• Ensure that the documentation (manuals, procedures, etc.) related to the job are up to date
• Create all missing documents and training necessary for the activities.
• Interact with other system MCO responsible, and with the Support and Quality Assurance group (for planning, spare parts availability, maintenance plan optimization, documentation and quality control)
• Act as MCO responsible for some systems when requested, suggest and implement the KPI for the system under her/his responsibility.

As Optics Engineer, support activities:

• Participate in cross-discipline performance analysis and maintenance on telescopes.
• Participate to the AIV of new systems and ensure the transfer of knowledge from project to MCO responsible
• Any critical Paranal observatory activities for which your competencies are requested by your manager.