Infrastructure Program Manager

📋 Job Overview

Proxima Fusion is Europe’s fastest-growing fusion company and the continent’s best-funded fusion player, as well as the first spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP). Backed by over €650M and powered by a growing team across Munich, Zurich, and Oxford, we are developing the hardware and infrastructure needed to deliver the world’s first commercial stellarator fusion power plant. Our concept advances the most mature fusion technology out there, the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator, through two next-generation machines: Alpha and Stellaris. Our work combines stellarator optimization, advanced computation, machine learning, and high-temperature superconducting magnets to unlock higher-performance designs that were previously out of reach. Turning these designs into a functioning fusion power plant requires excellence and ownership across every discipline, from physics and engineering to software, manufacturing, law, and business functions.

🏢 About Proxima Fusion

Proxima Fusion is Europe’s fastest-growing fusion company and the continent’s best-funded fusion player, as well as the first spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP). Backed by over €650M and powered by a growing team across Munich, Zurich, and Oxford, we are developing the hardware and infrastructure needed to deliver the world’s first commercial stellarator fusion power plant. Our concept advances the most mature fusion technology out there, the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator, through two next-generation machines: Alpha and Stellaris. Our work combines stellarator optimization, advanced computation, machine learning, and high-temperature superconducting magnets to unlock higher-performance designs that were previously out of reach.

🎯 The Role

You are the bridge between detailed infrastructure planning and the single integrated master schedule that governs Alpha's delivery. Without dedicated infrastructure schedule ownership, dependencies like infrastructure readiness for the magnet factory (drainage, cryo supply, extraction systems) quietly fall behind because nobody owns translating detailed site-level planning into the program-level view leadership actually uses to make decisions. You make sure that never happens by accident.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Own and actively manage all infrastructure and siting project schedules across Alpha and Stellaris - buildings, utilities, permitting milestones, and site readiness
• Translate infrastructure-specific schedule detail into validated, structured inputs for the Master Scheduler's integrated master schedule, ensuring infrastructure milestones, dependencies, and readiness dates are correctly reflected
• Identify infrastructure-specific critical path items and interdependencies - for example, infrastructure readiness depending on equipment or magnet-line arrival dates - and flag risks early
• Partner closely with the Master Scheduler, Risk & Change Manager, and Individual Project Managers (Alpha Construction Project Manager, Site Development Program Manager's team) to keep infrastructure schedules and the integrated timeline in sync
• Maintain infrastructure milestone governance discipline across all programs, ensuring consistent coding and leveling conventions
• Support gate-readiness by preparing infrastructure-specific schedule status inputs ahead of release gate decisions

📌 Required Qualifications

• Experienced in managing infrastructure or site development schedules on complex capital programs, ideally spanning multiple sites or projects in parallel
• Comfortable working with a federated schedule structure - translating detailed infrastructure planning into a broader integrated programme view
• Strong cross-functional communicator, able to align site project managers and technical teams with the Master Scheduler's baseline
• Fluent in English; German is a strong advantage given the permitting and contractor landscape
• Comfortable operating with high autonomy in a fast-scaling, still-being-built environment

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience in the fusion or advanced manufacturing sector
• Experience with high-temperature superconducting magnets or cryogenic systems
• Experience with project management software such as MS Project, Primavera, or similar

🎁 Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plan, and professional development opportunities.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Proxima Fusion is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates regardless of nationality or work authorization status. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and will comply with all applicable laws regarding nondiscrimination in employment in every state in which we operate.