Electrical Technician, Magnet Systems

The role

You will develop electrical infrastructure and execute installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting tasks for R&D facilities and experiments. This includes instrumentation wiring, system integration, and commissioning support.

What you will do

• Assemble control panels, junction boxes and cabinets
• Wire sensors, heaters, instrumentation, and related electrical interfaces
• Support integration of power supplies, control panels, acquisition systems, and test equipment
• Assist with electrical checks, verification, and commissioning of experimental setups
• Diagnose and repair electrical faults and component failures
• Power and connect experimental setups, prototype rigs, and manufacturing equipment
• Oversee electrical interventions by external contractors
• Ensure installations and modifications are safe and compliant with norms and regulations
• Perform preventive and corrective maintenance on electrical infrastructure and test hardware
• Ensure installations are neat, maintainable, and consistent with industrial norms

Required qualifications

• Training and practical experience as an Electrician, Electrical Technician, or similar
• Automatiker, Elektroinstallateur (EFZ Swiss vocational diploma) or equivalent qualification
• Good knowledge of safe electrical working practices and regulations
• Comfortable with producing and reading electrical diagrams
• Sizing cables and protection devices
• Performing modifications
• Troubleshooting real systems
• Comfortable working in a dynamic R&D environment

Nice to have

• Driving license valid in Switzerland
• Experience in R&D environments
• Experience drawing and updating Single-Line Diagrams (SLDs) and developing power distribution networks
• Familiarity with ECAD software
• Experience with power supplies, low-voltage industrial systems, or control cabinets

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 (IPP). They are developing the hardware and infrastructure needed to deliver the world’s first commercial stellarator fusion power plant.