The Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization with its Headquarters in Vienna is the international organisation setting up the global verification system foreseen under the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), which is the Treaty banning any nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosions. The treaty provides for a global verification regime, including a network of 321 stations worldwide, a communication system, an international data centre and on site inspections to monitor compliance.
We seek to recruit a highly qualified candidate for the following positions in the Commission's Provisional Technical Secretariat:
Title of Assignment: | Consultant - Support of Failure Analysis for Radionuclide Stations |
Vacancy Number: | VACIMS0005-2012 |
Date of Issuance: | 04-Mar-2012 |
Deadline Date: | 28-Mar-2012 |
Start date: | 01 April 2012 |
Duration: | 90 working days distributed in the period 01 April 2012 – 21 December 2012 |
Assignment:
Background:
As of March 2009, more than 75% of the radionuclide particulate network has been installed and sending data to the International Data Centre (IDC). This constitutes a great deal of information about the performance of the different types of equipment installed at radionuclide stations. On the other hand, daily state-of-health monitoring of the stations and incident tracking through the International Monitoring System (IMS) Reporting System (IRS) provides an excellent database for classifying and analyzing different types of failures of radionuclide stations with the view of improving their performance by identifying recurrent problems.
Since 2004, annual studies of failure analysis of particulate radionuclide stations have been conducted and the outcome of this analysis helped to implement actions in order to increase data availability and minimize downtime of radionuclide particulate stations. The Engineering & Development Section of the IMS intends to continue performing this analysis for the 2011 and 2012 failures.
The Commission seeks a consultant with background knowledge in radionuclide equipment and failure analysis.
Duties:
1. Process and analyze problem reports and populate the database for the year 2011-2012:
- Review, analyze, process the problem reports for the second half of the year 2011 and for the first quarter of the year 2012 for radionuclide particulate stations;
- Populate the existing database with the relevant failures. The task is to be carried out at the consultant’s home place. The consultant shall submit the updated failure database files twice during the contract period: one for the second half of the year 2011 and for the first quarter of the year 2012 problem reports and the other for the second and third quarter of the year 2012.
2. Review of Failure Analysis results and trends over the past 3 years and equipment replacement using DOTS (Database of the Technical Secretariat):
- Review, analyze, process previous Failure Analysis results as well as data contained in DOTS database (IMS Logistics database) concerning the radionuclide equipment over the last years in order to perform a more accurate equipment failure analysis. The consultant shall carry this work at home and submit a Final Report one month later.
3. Time schedule, reports and milestones:
The work under this contract shall be finished by 21 December 2012. Reports shall be provided in form of documentation as specified under point 2. The single work tasks shall be done in accordance with the following time schedule:
As of March 2009, more than 75% of the radionuclide particulate network has been installed and sending data to the International Data Centre (IDC). This constitutes a great deal of information about the performance of the different types of equipment installed at radionuclide stations. On the other hand, daily state-of-health monitoring of the stations and incident tracking through the International Monitoring System (IMS) Reporting System (IRS) provides an excellent database for classifying and analyzing different types of failures of radionuclide stations with the view of improving their performance by identifying recurrent problems.
Since 2004, annual studies of failure analysis of particulate radionuclide stations have been conducted and the outcome of this analysis helped to implement actions in order to increase data availability and minimize downtime of radionuclide particulate stations. The Engineering & Development Section of the IMS intends to continue performing this analysis for the 2011 and 2012 failures.
The Commission seeks a consultant with background knowledge in radionuclide equipment and failure analysis.
Duties:
1. Process and analyze problem reports and populate the database for the year 2011-2012:
- Review, analyze, process the problem reports for the second half of the year 2011 and for the first quarter of the year 2012 for radionuclide particulate stations;
- Populate the existing database with the relevant failures. The task is to be carried out at the consultant’s home place. The consultant shall submit the updated failure database files twice during the contract period: one for the second half of the year 2011 and for the first quarter of the year 2012 problem reports and the other for the second and third quarter of the year 2012.
2. Review of Failure Analysis results and trends over the past 3 years and equipment replacement using DOTS (Database of the Technical Secretariat):
- Review, analyze, process previous Failure Analysis results as well as data contained in DOTS database (IMS Logistics database) concerning the radionuclide equipment over the last years in order to perform a more accurate equipment failure analysis. The consultant shall carry this work at home and submit a Final Report one month later.
3. Time schedule, reports and milestones:
The work under this contract shall be finished by 21 December 2012. Reports shall be provided in form of documentation as specified under point 2. The single work tasks shall be done in accordance with the following time schedule:
- Processing of problem reports of the second semester 2011 and first quarter 2012. (15 days)
- Discussions with the supervisor, screening of all 2011-2012 radionuclide problem reports, copy relevant reports for analysis. (10 days)
- Processing of problem reports for the second and third quarters of 2012. (10 days)
- Compilation of the Failure Analysis results over 2009, 2010 and 2011 and report over the past 3 years. (20 days)
- Failure analysis studies on equipment replacement using DOTS. (15 days)
- Consolidation of the Failure Analysis results over 2009, 2010 and 2011 and report over the past 3 years. (20 days, including 10 days in Vienna)
Qualifications:
- At least three years of experience in failure analysis and with equipment for remote monitoring of aerosol-borne atmospheric radionuclides;
- Good knowledge of the functionality and design of HPGe detectors, high volume aerosol samplers, data acquisition electronics and infrastructure for remote monitoring stations;
- Familiarity with the operation of IMS radionuclide stations; and
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in the English language.
Desirable:
- Knowledge of the IMS reporting system (IRS)
Competencies:
Conscientious and efficient in meeting commitments, observing deadlines and achieving results and be able to work independently with minimum supervision. Very good skills in communicating with people from different backgrounds and demonstrated ability to work in a multicultural environment.
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