Building Regulations & Permitting Specialist
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About the Position
Building Regulations & Permitting Specialist
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). We are developing the hardware and infrastructure needed to deliver the world’s first commercial stellarator fusion power plant.
About the Role
As a Building Regulations & Permitting Specialist, you will be responsible for shaping the regulatory pathway for our fusion power plant projects. You will work closely with various departments to ensure that regulatory requirements are understood early and fed upstream into design and planning decisions.
Responsibilities
- Own the permitting strategy and execution for Alpha across all relevant sites.
- Lead building regulations and planning approval processes across Garching and Gundremmingen.
- Establish and maintain working relationships with relevant planning and building authorities.
- Ensure permitting requirements flow upstream into the Basis of Design and design inputs.
- Prepare and manage permitting documentation in coordination with the lead architect and external planning team.
- Define the regulatory landscape and way-forward playbook for Stellaris permitting preparation.
- Coordinate closely with the Head of Licensing & Regulation to ensure building permit processes and nuclear licensing requirements are sequenced coherently.
Requirements
- Experienced in building regulations, planning law, and permitting processes for major industrial, energy, or research infrastructure projects in Germany.
- Strategic as well as operational: you can define a multi-site permitting strategy and manage its execution simultaneously.
- Comfortable working in a design-inform role.
- Experienced managing authority relationships directly.
- Aware of the radiation protection licensing landscape in Germany.
- Fluent in German and English, written and spoken.
- Familiar with AI tools and digital working methods; comfortable in a lean, high-autonomy environment.
- Background in planning, building regulations, or regulatory affairs for energy, industrial, or research facilities is strongly preferred.
Nice to Have
- Experience across multiple simultaneous permitting processes.
- Aware of the radiation protection and nuclear licensing landscape in Germany.
We Offer
- Opportunity to work on some of the most complex tech challenges to bring abundant, safe, clean energy to the world.
- Join and learn from an exceptional selection of accomplished and driven individuals.
- Do your life’s best work and enjoy the journey.
- Get to show that big things are possible in Europe when you assemble the best talent.
About the Company
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.
Interview Process
- Recruiter Interview (30-60 min)
- Technical Screening (30 min)
- Technical Panel (3x60 min)
- Final CEO call (30 min)
*This role sits at "L3" of our framework, please inquire during the recruitment process for further information.
At Proxima Fusion, our mission is bold: making limitless clean energy a reality. To get there, we need a high-performing, diverse team that brings different perspectives, challenges assumptions, and builds together with purpose. We know that diversity of thought and experience leads to better ideas, stronger execution, and a more resilient team. We don’t look at how you identify, what you look like, who you choose to worship or what ethnicity you are. We care about what you can bring to the table.
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