Engineering Technician

About the role

Proxima Fusion is seeking a skilled technician to support the build, assembly, integration, and testing of complex, first-of-a-kind hardware for stellarator fusion power plants. You will work hands-on with components, magnets, and mechanical assemblies, collaborating with engineering and manufacturing teams to turn ambitious designs into reliable hardware. This role involves solving practical shop-floor challenges and developing the processes and tooling required for the Alpha programme.

Responsibilities

• Build, assemble and modify prototypes, experimental hardware, custom tooling and development rigs.
• Turn engineering drawings, models, and sketches into practical hardware.
• Fabricate and adapt components using fitting, cutting, drilling, soldering, bonding and assembly techniques.
• Identify buildability issues early and provide practical feedback to the design team.
• Prepare and run development trials, including winding, joining, insulation and impregnation.
• Install instrumentation, commission rigs, take measurements and record findings.
• Organise the practical delivery of assigned projects, including sourcing small parts and maintaining the workshop.
• Transfer proven prototypes and methods to manufacturing through work instructions and technical handovers.

Required skills

• Mechanical assembly
• Electromechanical hardware
• Engineering drawings
• GD&T
• Fabrication
• Technical documentation

Nice to have

• CNC machining
• Welding
• CATIA
• SolidWorks
• Fusion 360
• Instrumentation
• Vacuum systems
• Cryogenics
• Superconducting hardware
• German language

Qualifications

• Technical apprenticeship or vocational qualification in mechanical, electrical, mechatronic or related engineering
• 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.