Engineering Technician

The role

You will build, assemble, and modify prototypes, experimental hardware, and custom tooling. You will work with Proxima-designed components, magnets, and mechanical assemblies to support build, integration, and testing.

What you will do

• 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 and provide feedback to the design team
• Prepare and run development trials including winding, joining, insulation and impregnation trials
• Install instrumentation, commission rigs, take measurements and record observations
• Investigate unexpected behaviour and propose practical fixes
• Organise the practical delivery of assigned projects including sourcing parts and arranging tools
• Keep clear as-built records, annotated drawings, photographs and trial observations
• Transfer proven prototypes and methods to manufacturing through work instructions and training

Required qualifications

• A technical apprenticeship or vocational qualification in mechanical, electrical, mechatronic or related engineering work, or equivalent hands-on experience
• Hands-on experience building, modifying and troubleshooting mechanical or electromechanical hardware in a workshop, laboratory, development or advanced manufacturing environment
• The ability to interpret engineering drawings, tolerances and 3D models
• Working familiarity with geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T)
• Practical measurement skills
• Confident hand-tool and workshop skills
• Sound fabrication and assembly judgement
• Resourcefulness with incomplete information
• Sound judgement about technical uncertainty, safety and when a build or design change requires engineering review
• The ability to organise work, adapt to priority changes and document configurations and findings
• Working English for technical discussions, drawings, instructions and build records

Nice to have

• Specialist fabrication skills such as manual or CNC machining, sheet-metal work, welding, brazing or additive manufacturing
• Experience creating or modifying simple parts and fixtures in CATIA, SolidWorks, Fusion 360 or similar CAD tools
• Experience with instrumentation, sensors, data acquisition, electrical wiring, vacuum, cryogenics or superconducting hardware
• Experience with composites, resins, vacuum bagging, insulation or impregnation
• Experience taking first-of-a-kind hardware or a prototype process through to repeatable manufacturing and technical handover
• German language skills

About the company

Proxima Fusion is Europe’s fastest-growing fusion company and the continent’s best-funded fusion player. They are developing the hardware and infrastructure needed to deliver the world’s first commercial stellarator fusion power plant.