Laboratory Technician High Voltage Technology Group
The HVT group seeks a hands-on technician to design, create and support experimental setups, maintain workshop equipment, and ensure smooth technical operations in the ESP Lab.
Job description
We have 1 open position (part-time or full-time) in the High Voltage Technology (HVT) section.
The Laboratory Technician is responsible for performing essential mechanical work, installing and maintaining high-voltage (HV) setups, and ensuring the proper operation of machinery in the mechanical workshop.
Key Responsibilities:
- Mechanical Work & Fabrication:
Assembling, modifying, and fabricating mechanical components required for experiments and research projects.
- Experimental Setup & Safety Compliance:
Assembling and maintaining specialized experimental setups while ensuring all work complies with relevant safety standards and laboratory protocols.
- Workshop Operation & Machine Maintenance:
Overseeing the mechanical workshop, maintaining machines such as lathes, milling machines, and welding equipment to ensure reliable operation.
- Technical Support for Research Teams:
Assisting staff, students and researchers with the development and testing of prototypes and experimental setups.
We offer an full-time / part-time appointment, with an anticipated date August/ September 2025. You will be a member of the ESP Lab section, headed by Lab Manager Sandra Dordevic. Members of the ESP Lab are responsible for the research equipment of the research groups and take care of the infrastructure of the ESP Lab. Your work will be focused on the support of the HVT section. This position offers excellent opportunities to work in a dynamic team consisting of experts from academia, utilities, and manufacturers.
About the department
The research in the department of Electrical Sustainable Energy is inspired by the technical, scientific, and societal challenges originating from the transition towards a more sustainable society and focuses on four areas:
- DC Systems, Energy Conversion and Storage (DCE&S)
- Photovoltaic Materials and Devices (PVMD)
- Intelligent Electrical Power Grids (IEPG)
- High Voltage Technologies (HVT)
The Electrical Sustainable Energy department provides expertise in each of these areas throughout the entire energy system chain. The department owns a large ESP Laboratory assembling High Voltage testing, DC Grids testing environment, and a large RTDS that is actively used for real-time simulation of future electrical power systems, AC and DC protection, and wide-area monitoring and protection.
The High Voltage Technologies (HVT) group, headed by Proffesor Peter Vaessen, is responsible for research and education in the fields of High Voltage AC and DC. Both power and non-power applications are covered with voltage ranges between 1kV and 800kV.The objective of the HVT group is greening the grid with innovative insulation solutions to accelerate the energy transition.
For more information about the department, ESP Lab en the HVT section please visit our websites.
Job requirements
Qualifications:
- Hold a MBO/HBO or BSc degree in mecganical engineering or electrical engineering or have demonstrable relevant experience
- Excellent communication skills and excellent command of English.
- Enjoys working with students
- Understanding of laboratory safety protocols and guidelines.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
TU Delft (Delft University of Technology)
Delft University of Technology is built on strong foundations. As creators of the world-famous Dutch waterworks and pioneers in biotech, TU Delft is a top international university combining science, engineering and design. It delivers world class results in education, research and innovation to address challenges in the areas of energy, climate, mobility, health and digital society. For generations, our engineers have proven to be entrepreneurial problem-solvers, both in business and in a social context.
At TU Delft we embrace diversity as one of our core values and we actively engage to be a university where you feel at home and can flourish. We value different perspectives and qualities. We believe this makes our work more innovative, the TU Delft community more vibrant and the world more just. Together, we imagine, invent and create solutions using technology to have a positive impact on a global scale. That is why we invite you to apply. Your application will receive fair consideration.
Challenge. Change. Impact!
Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
The Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) brings together three scientific disciplines. Combined, they reinforce each other and are the driving force behind the technology we all use in our daily lives. Technology such as the electricity grid, which our faculty is helping to make completely sustainable and future-proof. At the same time, we are developing the chips and sensors of the future, whilst also setting the foundations for the software technologies to run on this new generation of equipment – which of course includes AI. Meanwhile we are pushing the limits of applied mathematics, for example mapping out disease processes using single cell data, and using mathematics to simulate gigantic ash plumes after a volcanic eruption. In other words: there is plenty of room at the faculty for ground-breaking research. We educate innovative engineers and have excellent labs and facilities that underline our strong international position. In total, more than 1000 employees and 4,000 students work and study in this innovative environment.
Click here to go to the website of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science.
Conditions of employment
- Duration of contract is 1 year Temporary with prospect of permanent
- A job of 32-40 hours per week.
- A salary based on Schaal 09 of the CAO for Dutch Universities with a salary between €3537 - €4860 gross per month based on a fulltime contract (38 hours), plus 8% holiday allowance and an end-of-year bonus of 8.3%.
- An excellent pension scheme via the ABP.
- The possibility to compile an individual employment package every year.
- Discount with health insurers on supplemental packages.
- Flexible working week.
- Every year, 232 leave hours (at 38 hours). You can also sell or buy additional leave hours via the individual choice budget.
- Plenty of opportunities for education, training and courses.
- Partially paid parental leave
- Attention for working healthy and energetically with the vitality program.
Additional information
If you would like more information about this vacancy or the selection procedure, please contact Sandra Dordevic or Prof.ir. P.Vaessen, head of the HVT group, via a.dordevic@tudelft.nl or p.t.m.vaessen@tudelft.nl.
Application procedure
Are you interested in this vacancy? Please apply no later than 29 Jun 2025 via the application button and upload the following documents:
- Application letter addressed to Ir. Sandra Dordevic that explains your personal motivation in becoming a technician in our department and fit to the job requirements,
- your curriculum vitae (CV), eventually supported by a list of scientific publications and/or internet-accessible technical reports. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
The deadline for applications is 29-06-2025, 2025 at 23:59 CET. The candidates will be screened as the applications arrive and the promissing candidates will be shortlisted and contacted before the closing of this post.
If you are interested, do not wait to apply, we are happy to schedule an interview while the response period is running.
Please note:
- You can apply online. We will not process applications sent by email and/or post.
- A pre-employment screening can be part of the selection procedure.
- For the final candidates, a knowledge security check will be part of the application procedure. For more information on this check, please consult Chapter 8 of the National Knowledge Security Guidelines. We carry out this check on the basis of legitimate interest.
- Please do not contact us for unsolicited services.