Junior Maintenance Technician
Key Skills
Job Description
In a nutshell
As a technician at Picnic, you will be part of our internal maintenance team and contribute to the smooth operation of our Material Handling Equipment. We will teach you everything about maintenance and troubleshooting, while giving you the freedom to share your ideas and help improve processes. You will grow quickly, take initiative, and help build the technology of the future. Together, we ensure that thousands of orders are delivered smoothly every day.
The Fulfilment Center is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Together with the other technicians, you will work rotating shifts according to a 5-shift schedule, ensuring that a skilled technician is always available.
Your responsibilities:
- Solving and preventing breakdowns: You tackle technical issues and ensure they do not happen again;
- Staying ahead of problems: You identify early signs of potential failures and take action before they cause disruptions;
- Preventive maintenance: You carry out preventive maintenance to ensure our machines keep running at all times;
- Continuous improvement: You implement ongoing improvements to ensure our automated systems operate at their optimal level.
About you..
- You have a technical diploma at MBO level 3 or higher;
- You have 0–2 years of experience in a technical or maintenance role;
- You are interested in working with software tools and dashboards;
- You communicate well and enjoy working as part of a team;
- You are proactive, eager to learn, and enjoy finding creative solutions to technical challenges.
Picnic perks
- Competitive salary, depending on your work experience;
- Company lease car + travel allowance from 10 km one-way (€0.21/km);
- 25 vacation days;
- Free meals and snacks at the location;
- We start saving for your pension from day one;
- Training program to further develop your technical skills and logistics knowledge;
- Fun team events, Picnic’s annual festival, Christmas party, and much more!
- A young, innovative start-up culture with more than 50 nationalities!
Core Responsibilities
You will be responsible for solving and preventing equipment breakdowns while performing preventive maintenance on material handling systems. Additionally, you will implement continuous improvements to ensure automated systems operate at optimal levels.
Requirements
Candidates must hold a technical diploma at MBO level 3 or higher and possess 0-2 years of experience in a technical or maintenance role. You should be proactive, eager to learn, and comfortable working with software tools and dashboards.
Benefits
- Company lease car
- Travel allowance
- 25 vacation days
- Free meals and snacks
- Pension scheme
- Training program
- Team events
About Picnic
Industry: Retail
Company size: 5,001-10,000 employees
At Picnic, we’re a team of inventors, builders, dreamers, and best-in-class operators! With our app-only business model and custom-built in-house supply chain, we're revolutionizing the way people buy groceries and eat every day. We're growing across the Netherlands, Germany, France, and beyond. One of the things that makes Picnic different is that we handle almost everything ourselves: from forecasting and building automated warehouses to designing custom electric vehicles and writing our own software. It gives us total freedom to experiment with bold, new ideas (which we do a lot!). We love to challenge ourselves and learn by doing. The best way to grow here? By taking ownership from day one and pushing boundaries every single day. As a diverse team of over 85 nationalities, there’s always something happening - whether you’re into sports, board games, charity work, dancing at our legendary Picnic festival, or licorice tasting (yes, really!). Our scale-up culture means you get to own your work and bring fresh ideas to life. If you’re looking to make a real impact, reach out. We’d love to hear from you!