[Particle-physics-affiliated] FW: Replacing Philip Lu - input welcome

[Oliver Stelzer-Chilton]

Dear Colleagues,

Following our discussion in the last Particle Physics Meeting on the SciTech replacement hire following Robert Henderson’s departure, Nigel kindly provided context of the current plan/thinking for Philip Lu’s replacement. See message below. Initially I thought we could discuss it during our March meeting until I noticed the short timeline so apologies for sending this only now. Feedback welcome, ideally by early next week.

Best regards,

Oliver

From: Nigel Hessey <nigel.hessey at lightspeed.ca>
Date: Friday, February 18, 2022 at 4:55 PM
To: Oliver Stelzer-Chilton <stelzer-chilton at triumf.ca>, Mark Hartz <mhartz at triumf.ca>, Syd Kreitzman <syd at triumf.ca>, Bassam Hitti <hitti at triumf.ca>, Chris Ruiz (Henderson) <ruiz at triumf.ca>, Barry Davids <davids at triumf.ca>, Wojtek Fedorko <wojtek.fedorko at gmail.com>, Reda Tafirout <tafirout at triumf.ca>, David Morrissey <dmorri at triumf.ca>
Cc: Petr Navratil <navratil at triumf.ca>, Philip Lu <philiplu at triumf.ca>
Subject: Replacing Philip Lu - input welcome
Department Heads

As you know, Philip Lu has been promoted into Robert Henderson's
position as Detectors Group Head.

We are now moving forward with replacing him.

Our thinking is this:

We want someone to cover the detector engineering Philip did. At the
same time we want to use the opportunity to plug some gaps we have in
SciTech.

The most glaring gap is that we do engineering, but without a
PEng. This means for any safety or major work we have to find an
external PEng to sign off and direct our work. It also makes it unclear
if we can have EIT (Engineers in Training) since such people "must work
directly under the supervision of a PEng".

Secondly we are missing cryogenics expertise. Bit of a long shot to
kill two birds with one stone, but we mention cryogenics as a plus.

We also have to plan for Chapman's succession. We are unlikely to
succeed with recruiting a scintillator shop manager with Chapman's
experience and ability to take on new techniques, visiting companies,
trade shows etc. figuring it all out. So we will emphasize we want an
engineer who remains open and enthusiastic to new techniques.

Please discuss within your departments, feel free to forward to others,
give me feedback rapidly on these plans. We would like to start
advertising within the next week or so.

Nigel
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