Construction Project Manager

The role

The Construction Project Manager will lead the delivery of Alpha, the first fusion demonstrator. This role involves steering engineering partners, managing risks, and ensuring construction readiness.

What you will do

• Lead the planning and delivery of Alpha, owning scope, schedule, risk, and cross-team alignment.
• Direct the planning and delivery of the Alpha construction project.
• Drive structured coordination with engineering partners.
• Integrate inputs from Technical Integration, machine engineering, BIM, and external partners into a plan.
• Coordinate with the PMO scheduler, project coordinator, and controllers.
• Identify risks early and guide decision-making.
• Ensure construction and commissioning readiness by resolving cross-disciplinary issues.

Required qualifications

• Significant experience delivering complex capital projects in energy, research, industrial, or high-tech environments.
• Strong grasp of engineering–construction interfaces and owner-side project management.
• Skilled at driving decisions, structuring ambiguity, and aligning a diverse set of stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating with evolving technical maturity and incomplete information.
• Able to represent owner priorities clearly when working with EPCM and engineering consortia.

About the company

Proxima Fusion is Europe’s fastest-growing fusion company and the continent’s best-funded fusion player. They are developing the hardware and infrastructure needed to deliver the world’s first commercial stellarator fusion power plant.