Alpha Plant Systems Lead

The role

You will own the design, integration, and delivery of Alpha's ancillary systems. This includes managing the tritium fuel cycle, high voltage electrical power, heating sources, cooling systems, and waste water treatment.

What you will do

• Drive integrated design and delivery of ancillary systems and interconnecting infrastructure.
• Modernize the engineering approach using advanced process engineering, BIM, and 4D assembly planning.
• Manage complex trade-offs and resolve critical design constraints.
• Own the budget for these systems.
• Serve as the primary technical interface with external stakeholders and regulatory bodies.
• Lead across ancillary systems to unblock cross-system challenges.
• Define safety logic.
• Lead integrated installation, commissioning, and maintenance strategies.

Required qualifications

• Proven track record owning major projects from design through to construction, commissioning, and handover.
• First-hand experience delivering complex plant engineering and facilities in manufacturing, data centers, refineries, chemical plants, or industrial gas production.
• Strong technical skillsets to lead design decisions regarding complex facility integration.
• Ability to balance inputs from multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage large internal and external work packages.

About the company

Proxima Fusion is a fusion company developing hardware and infrastructure for a commercial stellarator fusion power plant. It is a spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP).