• Operational Procurement Support: You support project procurement activities, category management, MRO purchasing, and coordinate ad hoc logistics to ensure smooth operations.

• Sourcing & Tendering: You run RFQs and RFPs, conduct supplier evaluations, lead negotiations, and prepare pre-award recommendations to drive best value outcomes.

• Contract Management: You oversee post-award contract administration, including expediting and supplier performance follow-up to ensure timely delivery.

• Supplier Base Development: You build, develop, and manage a robust local supplier network for industrial services, MRO, site support, and logistics.

• Supply Continuity: You ensure uninterrupted supply by proactively managing risks, resolving supplier issues, and maintaining strong relationships.

• Process Improvement: You continuously improve local procurement ways of working, enhancing efficiency, compliance, and collaboration across teams. 

This is a hands-on role combining operational media support, content coordination, and digital publishing. It is suited to a proactive, high-performing, detail-oriented communicator who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is comfortable working across teams and with senior stakeholders. 

• Media Monitoring & Insights: You monitor global media coverage, track key narratives, sentiment, and trends, and provide media insights and reporting to support communication strategies and stakeholder engagement.

• Press Office Operations: You manage inbound media requests, coordinate timely responses, and work closely with subject matter experts and senior spokespeople to ensure effective media engagement.

• Journalist Engagement: You maintain and develop journalist networks across priority markets, identify media opportunities, and ensure media databases and processes remain accurate and up to date.

• Media Relations & Campaign Execution: You support media outreach and relationship-building, particularly within the DACH region, and contribute to the successful execution of media campaigns, announcements, and localized communication initiatives.

• Content Development: You draft and review media responses, Q&As, briefing materials, and spokesperson preparation documents, ensuring consistent and impactful messaging across channels.

• Digital Communications: You publish and coordinate content across websites and social media platforms, supporting digital communication activities and ensuring alignment with broader communications objectives and narratives.

• Lifecycle Management: You lead the lifecycle management of new sorbent modules from TRL6 through product launch, service, and end-of-life, ensuring successful product deployment and long-term performance.

• Validation & Industrialization: You coordinate the validation of new products through serial production delivery, initiating and driving all engineering, manufacturing, testing, and validation activities required for successful industrialization.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: You work closely with in-house technology, development, and operations teams, as well as external collaborators, suppliers, and partners, to ensure seamless product development and delivery.

• Prototype Fabrication & Testing: You support the fabrication and testing of prototypes, conducting experiments to validate design concepts, troubleshoot issues, and refine product performance.

• Continuous Improvement: You drive the continuous improvement of sorbent modules by identifying opportunities to enhance product performance, reliability, manufacturability, and cost-effectiveness throughout the product lifecycle.

• Sales Enablement: You support the delivery of growth initiatives by preparing sales materials and helping opportunities move smoothly through the funnel.

• Sales Operations: You help maintain CRM and ERP systems, keeping customer and opportunity data up to date while supporting the team with accurate pipeline and order information.

• Events & Engagements: You assist in the planning and execution of customer events, climate conferences, and senior stakeholder engagements.

• Customer Success: You support the preparation of materials, documentation, and customer-facing updates for contracted carbon removal deliveries.

• Commercial Readiness: You contribute to RFP responses, presentations, customer portal activations, and communication campaigns by preparing inputs, coordinating details, and ensuring materials are ready on time.

• Market Intelligence: You research carbon market trends, corporate procurement patterns, competitor activity, and customer insights to help inform commercial priorities.

• Cross-functional Coordination: You support the handling of inbound sales requests and coordinate with Legal, Finance, and other teams on contracts, NDAs, invoices, and customer-related follow-ups.

• Stakeholder Needs: You engage with different teams to identify critical monitoring requirements and analyzing which events truly require alerting versus noise reduction. 

• Grafana Alerting: You build and configure alerts in Grafana based on data from PostgreSQL, defining thresholds, triggers, and escalation logic. 

• Cross-Team Alignment: You collaborate across facilities and backbone teams to drive consistency and harmonization of monitoring approaches. 

• Alert Communication: You create and organize Microsoft Teams alert channels aligned with the right audience and ensure alerts reach the appropriate stakeholders at the right time. 

• Standardization: You develop consistent naming conventions and alert phrasing, ensuring clarity, usability, and actionable messaging. 

• Data & Queries: You write and optimize SQL queries for alerting logic and work with data pipelines feeding Grafana dashboards. 

• Growth Execution: You operate at the center of the commercial unit, designing and orchestrating the execution of our growth initiatives, directly influencing our most strategic deals.

• Pipeline Growth: You accelerate our sales pipeline development and conversion by determining where we play and how we build market access to clients and decision-makers.

• Market Activation: You own and deliver the in-market execution activating high-impact channels such as events, industry alliances, and targeted marketing campaigns.

• Team & Alignment: You lead a high-performing team and orchestrate cross-functional execution to ensure a consistent, focused, and outcome-driven approach to growth, working alongside all key functions: sales, product, advisory, policy, and marketing.

• External Impact: You represent Climeworks Solutions externally at events, building and strengthening industry relations and identifying new opportunities that drive measurable commercial impact.

This is a critical leadership role at the heart of our scaling journey, combining enterprise risk ownership with hands-on operational execution.

• HSSE Strategy & Policies: You define and implement Climeworks’ global HSSE (health, safety, security & environment) strategy, standards and policies across all locations, ensuring a consistent and forward-looking approach to HSSE standards.

• Safety Program Ownership: You own and continuously improve the safety program across production facilities, testing sites, construction sites, and corporate workplaces, embedding a strong safety culture throughout the organization.

• Regulatory Engagement: You liaise with regulatory bodies across all jurisdictions where Climeworks operates, ensuring full compliance and maintaining strong, collaborative relationships with authorities.

• Executive Reporting: You act as the accountable owner of safety performance (e.g. LTIR/TRIR), including executive reporting and driving improvement actions.

• Corporate Facility Management Leadership: You provide strategic hands-on leadership in Facility Management at the Climeworks HQ in Opfikon, while sharing good practices with other Climeworks locations. Note: Direct site management of production and testing facilities is outside your remit.

• Stakeholder Management: You act as the primary point of contact for all internal and external facility- and site-related matters, collaborating closely with subsidiaries and external stakeholders.

• Financial & Contract Management: You oversee the financial and commercial management of HSE and facilities-related contracts, ensuring cost efficiency and strong contractual performance.

• Safety and corporate workplace integration: You ensure full alignment between HSSE standard and corporate workplace execution.

• Leadership & Organizational Development: You lead and coach HSSE and Facilities Management teams, fostering a strong culture of quality, accountability, safety, and customer service across the organization. Act as the single point of accountability for safety and workplace operations across the company.

• Technical Direction: You define and maintain the technical direction for the Electrical, Instrumentation, and Controls (EIC) Department.  You lead the development of fit-for-purpose EIC specifications, design philosophies, and basis of design for execution Globally. You ensure owner requirements are clearly defined, documented, and communicated to contractors, and validate design assumptions against operability, safety, and ensure compliance with local and regional codes and regulations.

• Contractor management: You review and approve contractor submissions including power distribution, control system architecture, and instrumentation design, enforce owner requirements, provide technical clarifications, and ensure adherence to schedule, quality, safety, and operability. You set clear expectations for execution methods, field quality controls, and turnover documentation needed for safe operation and maintenance.

• System Reliability & Innovation: You lead initiatives to improve reliability and performance of EIC systems, troubleshoot issues, and implement preventive measures. You evaluate and introduce emerging technologies such as smart instrumentation, advanced control systems, and energy efficiency solutions.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: You act as the primary EIC interface with process, mechanical, and project management teams to ensure integrated designs. You identify and mitigate EIC risks during design and operation phases and support project teams with scope, cost, and schedule estimates.

• Team Leadership & Continuous Improvement: You supervise and coach junior team members, provide guidance on technical challenges, and drive lessons-learned sessions to maintain a strong knowledge base and promote continuous improvement.  You maintain thorough records of technical decisions, design bases, vendor information, and lessons learned for future operational use.

• Cold-weather and constructability: As our next DAC plant is planned for Alberta, Canada, you incorporate Alberta (or similar) climate conditions into EIC design and execution planning (freeze protection, winterization, insulation/heat tracing philosophy, cold start/commissioning constraints). You ensure the design is constructable and able to operate and be maintained through winter conditions, including consideration of temporary works, winter work sequencing, and interface constraints with cold-weather activities.

• Specifications and design: You lead the development of fit-for-purpose mechanical specifications, design philosophies, and basis of design for execution Globally. You ensure owner requirements are clearly defined, documented, and communicated to contractors, and validate design assumptions against operability, safety, and applicable regulatory expectations. This includes defining a pressure equipment compliance pathway (e.g., registration and lifecycle documentation expectations) suitable for local and regional execution.

• Cold-weather and constructability: As our next DAC plant is planned for Alberta, Canada, you incorporate Alberta (or similar) climate conditions into mechanical design and execution planning (freeze protection, winterization, insulation/heat tracing philosophy, drainage/low-point management, cold start/commissioning constraints). You ensure the design is constructable and able to operate and be maintained  through winter conditions, including consideration of temporary works, winter work sequencing, and interface constraints with cold-weather civil activities.

• Contractor management: You review and approve contractor submissions, enforce owner requirements, provide technical clarifications, and ensure adherence to schedule, quality, safety, and operability. You set clear expectations for execution methods, field quality controls, and turnover documentation needed for safe operation and maintenance.

• Innovation and cost optimization: You develop innovative engineering solutions to identify cost-saving opportunities without compromising quality or safety. You focus on design-to-construct decisions appropriate for local boundary conditions (e.g., modularization readiness, reduced field welds, optimized layout, local climactic conditions, access and maintenance).

• Interface management: You assure strong integration with process, civil, electrical, and O&M disciplines to achieve seamless and optimized designs. You proactively manage cross-discipline interfaces.

• Regulatory and stakeholder awareness: Where relevant, you support alignment of mechanical scope assumptions with local permitting and application needs for energy/industrial facilities and infrastructure interfaces.

• Documentation and knowledge management: You maintain thorough records of technical decisions, design bases, vendor information, and lessons learned for future operational use, including pressure equipment records and lifecycle documentation expectations.

• Contractor management: You review and approve contractor submissions including power distribution, control system architecture, and instrumentation design, enforce owner requirements, provide technical clarifications, and ensure adherence to schedule, quality, safety, and operability. You set clear expectations for execution methods, field quality controls, and turnover documentation needed for safe operation and maintenance.

• System Reliability & Innovation: You lead initiatives to improve reliability and performance of EIC systems, troubleshoot issues, and implement preventive measures. You evaluate and introduce emerging technologies such as smart instrumentation, advanced control systems, and energy efficiency solutions.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: You act as the primary EIC interface with process, mechanical, and project management teams to ensure integrated designs. You identify and mitigate EIC risks during design and operation phases and support project teams with scope, cost, and schedule estimates.

• Team Leadership & Continuous Improvement: You supervise and coach junior team members, provide guidance on technical challenges, and drive lessons-learned sessions to maintain a strong knowledge base and promote continuous improvement.  You maintain thorough records of technical decisions, design bases, vendor information, and lessons learned for future operational use.

• Cold-weather and constructability: As our next DAC plant is planned for Alberta, Canada, you incorporate Alberta (or similar) climate conditions into EIC design and execution planning (freeze protection, winterization, insulation/heat tracing philosophy, cold start/commissioning constraints). You ensure the design is constructable and able to operate and be maintained through winter conditions, including consideration of temporary works, winter work sequencing, and interface constraints with cold-weather activities.

• IP and Inventor Enablement: You enable the management of IP topics by guiding inventors and ensuring readiness for future projects.

• Technology and Product Landscape Monitoring: You continuously monitor Climeworks’ product innovations and the evolving technology landscape.

• Inventor and Expert Interface: You serve as the essential bridge between inventors and innovation protection experts, ensuring efficient communication and collaboration.

• Patent Portfolio and Scientific Analysis: You dive deep into Climeworks’ patent portfolio and relevant scientific literature to provide strong technical insights.

• Core Technology Ownership: You own core technology domains with a focus on patent filing and ongoing maintenance.

• Continuous Improvement: You refine and streamline Climeworks’ innovation mining and protection approaches, ensuring the company remains an industry leader.

• Cold-weather and constructability: As our next DAC plant is planned for Alberta, Canada, you incorporate Alberta (or similar) climate conditions into mechanical design and execution planning (freeze protection, winterization, insulation/heat tracing philosophy, drainage/low-point management, cold start/commissioning constraints). You ensure the design is constructable and able to operate and be maintained  through winter conditions, including consideration of temporary works, winter work sequencing, and interface constraints with cold-weather civil activities.

• Contractor management: You review and approve contractor submissions, enforce owner requirements, provide technical clarifications, and ensure adherence to schedule, quality, safety, and operability. You set clear expectations for execution methods, field quality controls, and turnover documentation needed for safe operation and maintenance.

• Innovation and cost optimization: You develop innovative engineering solutions to identify cost-saving opportunities without compromising quality or safety. You focus on design-to-construct decisions appropriate for local boundary conditions (e.g., modularization readiness, reduced field welds, optimized layout, local climactic conditions, access and maintenance).

• Interface management: You assure strong integration with process, civil, electrical, and O&M disciplines to achieve seamless and optimized designs. You proactively manage cross-discipline interfaces.

• Regulatory and stakeholder awareness: Where relevant, you support alignment of mechanical scope assumptions with local permitting and application needs for energy/industrial facilities and infrastructure interfaces.

• Documentation and knowledge management: You maintain thorough records of technical decisions, design bases, vendor information, and lessons learned for future operational use, including pressure equipment records and lifecycle documentation expectations.