Risk and Change Manager - Alpha Delivery PMO

The role

You will establish and maintain the Alpha risk register and own the end to end change control process. You will work across infrastructure, manufacturing, and machine workstreams to ensure cost and schedule baselines remain aligned.

What you will do

• Establish and maintain the Alpha risk register across workstreams
• Facilitate structured risk identification, assessment and assignment of mitigation owners
• Own the change control process end to end
• Work with the Cost Controller and Programme Schedule Manager to align baselines
• Prepare risk-adjusted inputs for release gate decisions
• Run regular risk reviews with workstream owners
• Build risk and change governance standards
• Support the PMO's wider reporting cadence

Required qualifications

• Experienced in risk and change management on major capital programs in energy, industrial, research infrastructure or similarly complex multi-discipline settings
• Able to build a risk and change framework from scratch
• Confident holding the line on change discipline with internal engineers and external partners
• Comfortable working with high autonomy
• Fluent in English
• Familiar with AI tools and digital ways of working

Nice to have

• German is a strong advantage

Before you apply

• Recruiter Interview (30-60 min)
• Technical Screening (30 min)
• Technical Panel (3x60 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.