Building Regulations & Permitting Specialist

The role

You will own the building regulations and permitting strategy across multiple sites. You will manage permitting for the Alpha facility and define the regulatory landscape for Stellaris.

What you will do

• 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 planning and building authorities
• Ensure permitting requirements flow into design and engineering inputs
• Prepare and manage permitting documentation in coordination with the lead architect and external planning team
• Define the regulatory landscape and playbook for Stellaris permitting preparation
• Coordinate with the Head of Licensing & Regulation to sequence building permit processes and nuclear licensing requirements

Required qualifications

• Experienced in building regulations, planning law, and permitting processes for major industrial, energy, or research infrastructure projects in Germany
• Strategic and operational capability to define and manage multi-site permitting strategy
• 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

Nice to have

• Background in planning, building regulations, or regulatory affairs for energy, industrial, or research facilities
• Experience across multiple simultaneous permitting processes
• Aware of the radiation protection and nuclear licensing landscape in Germany

Benefits

• Work on complex tech challenges to bring abundant, safe, clean energy to the world
• Join and learn from an exceptional selection of accomplished and driven individuals

Before you apply

• Recruiter Interview (30-60 min)
• Technical Screening (30 min)
• Technical Panel (3x60 min)
• Final CEO call (30 min)

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.