Electronics Technician - ASKAP

Acknowledgement of Country CSIRO acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, sea and waters, of the area that we live and work on across Australia. We acknowledge their continuing connection to their culture and pay our respects to their Elders past and present. View our vision towards reconciliation Child Safety CSIRO is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people involved in our activities and programs. View our Child Safe Policy. The Opportunity Combine the advantages of ocean-side lifestyle in a role working with leading-edge technology  Leverage your electronics expertise to make a difference in radio astronomy and spacecraft tracking  Join CSIRO's Space and Astronomy business unit and contribute to world-class initiatives We're recruiting technicians at our Space and Astronomy business unit, which manages CSIRO’s world-class facilities for radio astronomy and spacecraft tracking.  The next-generation Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP), a world-class radio telescope, is producing high impact science results, including discovering new galaxies with its new depths of sensitivity. An upgrade to the telescope called CRACO is underway, designed to detect Fast Radio Bursts and other transient sources with increased sensitivity. ASKAP is operated at Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, in Western Australia. The position We are seeking an Electronics Technician to be part of the support team for ASKAP Operations and, together with other sites, to support planning and delivery of instrumentation upgrades, including CRACO. Your role will support complex digital, analogue and radio frequency systems including the PAF receivers, digital signal processing, control and monitoring, and timing systems. The role includes participating in planning for systems maintenance activities, fault diagnosis and testing, and participating in the planning of deployment of new state-of-the-art instrumentation. You will be part of our engineering team located on our Geraldton site, but working at times within the broader telescope technical team to maintain operational support and support new projects, such as CRACO. Please note: Frequent travel to the Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (approx. 350km northeast of Geraldton) will be required. Visits will be typically five days in duration and require overnight stays at the Boolardy accommodation facility. Your duties will include: Monitoring system performance and maintaining the Observatory electronics systems. Applying your knowledge and experience, working under limited direction, to undertake fault diagnosis and corrective maintenance on a diverse range of specialised analogue and digital electronic equipment, sharing your knowledge and skills with other staff.   Undertaking repairs to electronic equipment and modules down to component level.  Proactively identifying potential spares issues or failure modes, working with external suppliers or staff at other ATNF sites to determine suitable replacement parts or alternative solutions.   Actively participating in planning and design of instrumentation upgrades for the Observatory. Actively contributing to documentation associated with equipment repair and maintenance, including management of…

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