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). 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.

Responsibilities

Own Proxima Fusion's building regulations and permitting strategy across multiple sites from day one; Work spans the Alpha facility permitting process, site development approvals, and the early regulatory landscape definition for Stellaris; Ensure regulatory requirements are understood early and fed upstream into design and planning decisions; Build relationships with planning authorities on solid ground; Work in close coordination with Head of Siting & Infrastructure and Head of Licensing & Regulation to sequence building permit timelines and licensing requirements; Own permitting strategy and execution for Alpha across all relevant sites; Lead building regulations and planning approval processes across Garching and Gundremmingen simultaneously; Manage possibility of a site change as a live planning scenario without losing momentum; Establish and maintain working relationships with relevant planning and building authorities and specialist regulatory advisors at all locations; Ensure permitting requirements flow upstream into Basis of Design and structural, systems, and MEP design inputs; Prepare and manage permitting documentation in coordination with lead architect and external planning team; own the submission process and track authority responses; Define regulatory landscape and way-forward playbook for Stellaris permitting preparation; Coordinate closely with 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: can define a multi-site permitting strategy and manage its execution simultaneously; Comfortable working in a design-inform role: understands how regulatory constraints shape structural and systems design decisions and engages with engineers upstream; Experienced managing authority relationships directly: owner-side face to planning bodies; Aware of the radiation protection licensing landscape in Germany: understands how nuclear or radiation-related facility licensing timelines interact with building permit sequencing; Fluent in German and English, written and spoken; Familiar with AI tools and digital working methods; comfortable in a lean, high-autonomy environment

Nice to have

Background in planning, building regulations, or regulatory affairs for energy, industrial, or research facilities is strongly preferred; Experience across multiple simultaneous permitting processes is a strong plus; Aware of the radiation protection and nuclear licensing landscape in Germany is a plus

Benefits

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