Recruitment & People Operations Specialist

Proxima Fusion

Oxford, United Kingdom

Posted on: 2025-02-24

Category: energy

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Building stellarator fusion power plants—the clearest, most robust path to commercial fusion energy.

WHO WE ARE

At Proxima Fusion, we're driven by a bold mission – to redefine the future of sustainable energy. Our unique concept, built upon the groundbreaking W7-X stellarator and the latest advances in technology, paves the way for commercially viable fusion power plants.

Our work in stellarator optimization, powered by cutting-edge computation and machine learning, is propelling us into uncharted territories of fusion technology. New higher performance design points are unlocked by high temperature superconducting magnets.

We're on a journey to redefine the energy landscape, ensuring a sustainable future for generations to come.

YOUR IMPACT

As a Recruitment & People Operations Specialist, you’ll be part of the People team enabling Proxima and all our team members to do their best work. Whether it’s delivering on our growth plans and brining in the best talent for us, or providing operational & compliance support from a People/HR POV, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping our culture, setting new standards for excellence.

Proxima Fusion is firmly committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse work environment. We embrace the principles of equality and stand against discrimination on the basis of age, disability, gender, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or sexual orientation.

Our organizational culture values and promotes equal opportunities for everyone, recognizing that a diverse team brings a richness of perspectives and contributes to our overall success. We encourage and welcome applications from candidates with various backgrounds, talents, and potential. Our selection process is solely based on individual merit, ensuring fair and impartial consideration for all applicants.

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

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Finding Exceptional Talent: Source, engage, and hire top scientific and engineering minds while ensuring a seamless candidate experience.

Making sure we’re compliant: on all People topics in your location or other countries where we have offices.

Optimizing Processes: Help improve recruitment, onboarding, and other people operations workflows and standards to ensure efficiency and scalability.

Being a Team Player: Collaborate with managers and other stakeholders to understand their needs and ensure alignment at every stage of the hiring process.

Ensure we offer a tremendous people experience: work with multiple internal stakeholders and all team members making sure we offer the best work environment so that everyone is able to focus and do their best work.

WHO YOU ARE

Experienced: You bring very relevant hands-on end-to-end recruitment and people operations experience, ideally in a high-tech, engineering, hardware or manufacturing scale-up/start-up.

Tech-Savvy: Curious about engineering and eager to dive into the fascinating world of stellarators.

Proactive: You’re self-driven, autonomous, and take ownership of challenges.

Efficiency-Focused: Passionate about streamlining workflows and finding creative ways to automate repetitive tasks.

Candidate- and People Centric: Working with candidates, hiring managers and also various team members, committed to delivering an outstanding candidate and people experience.

Stakeholder relationships: working with our demanding hiring managers and team members in general getting them candidates meeting our very high bar.

Curious: about other aspects of HR willing to expand your remit and learn about other complimentary People areas.

INTERVIEW PROCESS

Recruiter Interview (60 min)

Technical Screening (60 min)

Technical Panel (2x60 min)

CEO call (30 min)

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