Program Schedule Manager

Job description

WHO WE ARE Proxima Fusion is Europe’s fastest-growing fusion company and the continent’s best-funded fusion player, as well as the first spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP). Backed by over €650M and powered by a growing team across Munich, Zurich, and Oxford, we are developing the hardware and infrastructure needed to deliver the world’s first commercial stellarator fusion power plant. Our concept advances the most mature fusion technology out there, the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator, through two next-generation machines: Alpha and Stellaris. Our work combines stellarator optimization, advanced computation, machine learning, and high-temperature superconducting magnets to unlock higher-performance designs that were previously out of reach. Turning these designs into a functioning fusion power plant requires excellence and ownership across every discipline, from physics and engineering to software, manufacturing, law, and business functions. WHY JOIN PROXIMA FUSION You will get to work on some of the most complex tech challenges to bring abundant, safe, clean energy to the world. You'll get to join and learn from an exceptional selection of accomplished and driven individuals. Do your life’s best work and enjoy the journey. Get to show that big things are possible in Europe when you assemble the best talent. YOUR IMPACT Own and build the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) for Alpha, Proxima Fusion’s first fusion demonstrator. Define the scheduling architecture, coding structure, baseline conventions, and reporting standards from the ground up. Integrate sub-schedules across infrastructure, plant suppliers, manufacturing, and machine engineering into one coherent programme view. Establish credible milestones, programme gates, dependencies, and schedule interfaces across all workstreams. Identify, validate, and maintain the programme’s critical and near-critical paths. Provide early warning of schedule risk, emerging delays, and downstream impacts. Run schedule analysis to support recovery planning, mitigation actions, and informed trade-off decisions. Maintain the IMS as a live, accurate, and trusted programme-management tool. Support PMO governance, release-gate decisions, and executive programme reviews. Provide clear schedule insights and recommendations to programme leadership as Alpha scales. Drive schedule discipline and alignmen…