diff --git a/conf/event-generator/jobs.yml b/conf/event-generator/jobs.yml
index 7c6450441491d8dd8ce0af905b4d3a6f53fe4972..ca9ddc6ffa956bbe946e4630ebfe865d8fc87008 100644
--- a/conf/event-generator/jobs.yml
+++ b/conf/event-generator/jobs.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,32 @@
+## This file contains the template of the generic workflow
+## It can be used as a reference to create a custom workflow.
+
 JOBS:
+  TRANSFER_PROJECT:
+    FILE: templates/common/transfer_project.sh
+    PLATFORM: LOCAL
+
+  BUILD_ICON:
+    FILE: templates/common/build_icon.sh
+    DEPENDENCIES: TRANSFER_PROJECT
+    WALLCLOCK: 04:00
+    PROCESSORS: 16
+    RETRIALS: 2 # retry because spack downloads sometimes timeout
+    NODES: 1
+
+  BUILD_PYTHON_ENVIRONMENT:
+    FILE: templates/common/build_python_environment.sh
+    # Right now we rely on spack for building icon and having a python interpreter, so we need this dependency:
+    DEPENDENCIES: BUILD_ICON
+    WALLCLOCK: 01:00
+    PROCESSORS: 16
+    NODES: 1
+
   PREPARE_EXPERIMENT:
     FILE: templates/event-generator/prepare_experiment.sh
+    DEPENDENCIES: BUILD_ICON
+    RUNNING: once
+    WALLCLOCK: 01:00
 
   PREPARE_DATE:
     FILE: templates/event-generator/prepare_date.sh
@@ -11,6 +37,8 @@ JOBS:
   PREPARE_MEMBER:
     FILE: templates/event-generator/prepare_member.sh
     DEPENDENCIES: PREPARE_EXPERIMENT PREPARE_DATE
+    RUNNING: member
+    WALLCLOCK: 01:00
 
   ADAPT_MEMBER:
     FILE: templates/event-generator/adapt_member.sh
@@ -21,11 +49,40 @@ JOBS:
   PREPARE_NAMELIST:
     FILE: templates/event-generator/prepare_namelist.py
     DEPENDENCIES: ADAPT_MEMBER RUN_ICON-1
+    WALLCLOCK: 00:05
+    RUNNING: chunk
+    TYPE: python
+    EXECUTABLE: "%HPCROOTDIR%/%python_environment.folder_name%/bin/python3"
+
+  RUN_ICON:
+    FILE: templates/common/run_icon.sh
+    DEPENDENCIES: PREPARE_NAMELIST COMPRESS-1
+    WALLCLOCK: 02:00
+    RUNNING: chunk
+    PROCESSORS: 64
+    MEMORY: 81920
+    CUSTOM_DIRECTIVES: [ "#SBATCH --exclusive" ]
 
   COMPRESS:
     FILE: templates/common/compress.py
     DEPENDENCIES: RUN_ICON
     RUNNING: member
+    TYPE: python
+    EXECUTABLE: "%HPCROOTDIR%/%python_environment.folder_name%/bin/python3"
+    PROCESSORS: 16
+    MEMORY: 16384
+    WALLCLOCK: 01:00
 
-  RUN ICON:
-    WALLCLOCK : 02:00
+  TRANSFER:
+    FILE: templates/common/transfer.sh
+    DEPENDENCIES: COMPRESS
+    # Since this is running locally, can simply leave a long wallclock.
+    WALLCLOCK: 24:00
+    RUNNING: member
+    PLATFORM: LOCAL
+
+  CLEAN:
+    FILE: templates/common/clean.sh
+    DEPENDENCIES: TRANSFER
+    WALLCLOCK: 00:10
+    RUNNING: member