PMO Coordinator

The role

You will run the PMO's reporting rhythm, pulling cost, schedule and risk inputs into steering committee packs and gate-readiness reports. You will also keep the master calendar of deliverables and milestones for Alpha and Stellaris, and support PMO governance forums.

What you will do

• Own the PMO reporting cadence and steering committee packs
• Chase status updates before gate reviews and flag gaps or inconsistencies
• Maintain reporting templates and dashboards in Wrike or similar tools
• Keep the master calendar of programme deliverables, gates and milestones for Alpha and Stellaris
• Support logistics for PMO governance forums, from scheduling to papers
• Help with ad hoc analysis of cost, schedule and risk data

Required qualifications

• Experience supporting a PMO or project controls function on a complex, multi-discipline programme
• Highly organised, able to turn input from engineers, suppliers and commercial teams into clear reporting
• Confident with project management and reporting tools
• Fluent in English
• Comfortable with the pace and ambiguity of building things that do not exist yet

Nice to have

• German

Before you apply

• Interview process: recruiter interview (30-60 min), technical screening (60 min), technical panel (2x60 min)

About the company

Proxima Fusion is a European fusion company and the first spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. It is developing stellarator fusion power plant hardware through its Alpha and Stellaris machines, with teams in Munich, Zurich and Oxford.