Production Technician

About the role

Proxima Fusion is developing the world's first commercial stellarator fusion power plant and is seeking a skilled technician to bring complex, first-of-a-kind hardware to life. You will work hands-on with components, magnets, and mechanical assemblies to support their build, assembly, integration, and testing. This role involves collaborating with engineering and manufacturing teams to solve practical shop floor challenges and develop the processes needed to build next-generation fusion machines.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, troubleshoot and repair machinery across our magnet factory, keeping equipment safe, accurate and available.
• Carry out preventive maintenance, inspections and repairs on mechanical, electromechanical and pneumatic systems.
• Diagnose breakdowns, intermittent faults and undocumented failures, resolving the root cause and verifying safe operation.
• Assemble, install, align, and commission new equipment, supporting factory and site acceptance tests.
• Work with multiple teams to distinguish machine faults from setup, material, process or measurement problems.
• Work with controls and manufacturing engineering to tune equipment, including winding tension, motion, vacuum and thermal profiles.
• Identify wear early, flag long-lead items and communicate to the lead technician.
• Record failure modes, downtime, repairs, parts used and equipment modifications, and apply safety protocols like lockout/tagout.

Required skills

• Industrial maintenance
• Mechanical engineering
• Electrical engineering
• Mechatronics
• Electrical diagnostics
• Mechanical diagnostics
• Engineering drawings
• Pneumatics
• Workshop tools
• Machine safety

Nice to have

• Reel-to-reel machinery
• Tension control
• Precision motion
• Cable and conductor handling
• PLC
• Beckhoff
• TwinCAT
• Hydraulic equipment
• Vacuum equipment
• Cryogenic equipment

Qualifications

• Technical apprenticeship or vocational qualification in industrial maintenance, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering or mechatronics
• Equivalent hands-on experience

About the Company

Proxima Fusion is Europe’s fastest-growing fusion company and the first spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. Backed by over €650M, the company is developing the hardware and infrastructure needed to deliver the world’s first commercial stellarator fusion power plant.