Production Technician

The role

You will work hands-on with Proxima-designed components, magnets, mechanical assemblies and other critical systems. You will support their build, assembly, integration and testing while working closely with Engineering, Manufacturing and Quality.

What you will do

• Maintain, troubleshoot and repair machinery across the magnet factory
• Carry out preventive maintenance, inspections and repairs on mechanical, electromechanical and pneumatic systems
• Diagnose breakdowns, intermittent faults and undocumented failures
• Assemble, install, align, and commission new equipment
• Support factory and site acceptance tests, installation checks
• Work with multiple teams to distinguish machine faults from setup, material, process or measurement problems
• Work with controls and manufacturing engineering to tune equipment
• Identify wear early and communicate to the lead technician
• Record failure modes, downtime, repairs, parts used and equipment modifications
• Apply lockout/tagout, safe isolation, stored-energy controls and controlled restart procedures

Required qualifications

• Technical apprenticeship or vocational qualification in industrial maintenance, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering or mechatronics, or equivalent hands-on experience
• Hands-on experience maintaining and repairing production or process equipment
• Strong electrical and mechanical diagnostic skills
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, equipment manuals and electrical or pneumatic schematics
• Practical familiarity with mechanisms, pneumatics, drives and sensors
• Confidence using workshop tools and measuring equipment to strip, rebuild, align and inspect machine components accurately
• Disciplined approach to electrical and machine safety, safe isolation and stored energy
• Ability to organise assigned work independently, keep reliable records and adapt as equipment and processes develop
• Working English for understanding technical instructions, recording work and communicating

Nice to have

• Experience with reel-to-reel machinery, tension control, precision motion, or cable and conductor handling
• Experience diagnosing programmable logic controller (PLC) systems including Beckhoff/TwinCAT or comparable controls
• Experience commissioning custom machinery, a new cell or a new production line, including factory or site acceptance testing
• Hydraulic, vacuum, cryogenic or high-voltage equipment experience
• Electrical qualification such as Elektrofachkraft
• Experience with computerised maintenance management systems (CMMS), establishing preventive-maintenance programmes or structured reliability improvement
• 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.