Get to know Climeworks Climeworks is a leading high-quality carbon removal provider, combining decades of expertise in Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology with a holistic approach to carbon removal solutions.
Climeworks advises companies on their carbon removal strategies and provides tailored portfolios of nature-based and engineered approaches, offering end-to-end services to help achieve net- zero goals. The company runs the world’s first two DAC plants in Iceland, demonstrating its core commitment to high-quality carbon removal that is backed by over 15 years of pioneering research, development, and deployment.
By advancing the most reliable solutions in the market, Climeworks accelerates the global transition to net-zero, unlocking economic value for businesses, governments, and society.
We foster a dynamic environment and are building a global purpose-driven team. We are looking for disruptive thinkers, passionate achievers and inspiring leaders that are ready to take on the world’s greatest challenge.
Will you join us?
Job description You will lead Climeworks’ global Health, Safety, Security and Environmental (HSSE) function, ensuring a consistent and high-performing safety culture across our production facilities, testing sites and corporate environments. At the same time, you will oversee corporate facilities and workplace operations, ensuring our headquarters operate safely, efficiently and to the highest standards.
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: 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: 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: Liaise with regulatory bodies across all jurisdictions where Climeworks operates, ensuring full compliance and maintaining strong, collaborative relationships with authorities.
Executive Reporting: Act as the accountable owner of safety performance (e.g. LTIR/TRIR), including executive reporting and driving improvement actions.
Corporate Facility Management Leadership: 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: 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: Oversee the financial and commercial management of HSE and facilities-related contracts, ensuring cost efficiency and strong contractual performance.
Safety and corporate workplace integration: Ensure full alignment between HSSE standard and corporate workplace execution.
Leadership & Organizational Development: 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.
Your Story Job requirements
Education & Qualifications: Hold a bachelor’s degree in Occupational Health and Safety or a related field, providing a solid academic foundation for this role.
Professional Experience: Bring over 10 years of industry experience in HSSE leadership within industrial, energy or process environments.
HSE & Technical Expertise: Have strong expertise in corporate workplace safety, construction safety and production safety, combined with a focus on health and well-being. Familiar with COHS standards and bring solid financial acumen, including budgeting and cost control.
Strategic & Operational Mindset: A strategic thinker with the ability to translate strategy into effective operational execution, navigating both high-level planning and hands-on implementation.
Leadership & People Development: Bring strong leadership skills with the ability to develop and grow teams, fostering collaboration and performance across diverse stakeholders.
Communication & Stakeholder Management: Communicate clearly and confidently, with excellent internal and external stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence across different levels of the organization. Experience managing contractors, vendors and facility operations.
Ownership & Adaptability: Demonstrate a high level of ownership, accountability and decision‑making capability, and be comfortable managing complexity, shifting priorities and change in dynamic environments.
Languages & Mobility: Fluent in German and English and open to travel (approximately 10%), including site visits to Iceland and testing facilities.
Our promise At Climeworks, you are accepted for who you are, and we are committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply – regardless of background, identity, or experience. Studies show that women and individuals from minority backgrounds often only apply for jobs when they meet 100% of the listed criteria. If this sounds like you, don’t hold back. If you think you’d make a great fit for this role, we’d love to hear from you, even if you don’t check every single box. Let us tackle one of humankind’s greatest challenges together.
What we offer
Time Off: Enjoy 25 paid vacation days every year, plus public holidays.
Ownership: Fair base pay paired with an equity package – because your contributions matter.
Family Support: Inclusive parental leave.
Continuous Learning: Dedicated budget to invest in your professional growth.
Referral Rewards: Help us grow our team and earn bonuses for your successful referrals.
Salary At Climeworks, salary ranges are assigned to a job based on the level of seniority and the location specific market median of similar jobs according to external benchmark surveys. Individual compensation depends on your skills, experience, and the value you bring to the team.
Formalities
This position is based in Opfikon, Zurich, and we ask that you work onsite at least four days per week.
We do not accept candidate profiles through recruitment agencies.
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Climeworks advises companies on their carbon removal strategies and provides tailored portfolios of nature-based and engineered approaches, offering end-to-end services to help achieve net- zero goals. The company runs the world’s first two DAC plants in Iceland, demonstrating its core commitment to high-quality carbon removal that is backed by over 15 years of pioneering research, development, and deployment.
By advancing the most reliable solutions in the market, Climeworks accelerates the global transition to net-zero, unlocking economic value for businesses, governments, and society.
We foster a dynamic environment and are building a global purpose-driven team. We are looking for disruptive thinkers, passionate achievers and inspiring leaders that are ready to take on the world’s greatest challenge.
Will you join us?
Job description You will lead Climeworks’ global Health, Safety, Security and Environmental (HSSE) function, ensuring a consistent and high-performing safety culture across our production facilities, testing sites and corporate environments. At the same time, you will oversee corporate facilities and workplace operations, ensuring our headquarters operate safely, efficiently and to the highest standards.
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: 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: 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: Liaise with regulatory bodies across all jurisdictions where Climeworks operates, ensuring full compliance and maintaining strong, collaborative relationships with authorities.
Executive Reporting: Act as the accountable owner of safety performance (e.g. LTIR/TRIR), including executive reporting and driving improvement actions.
Corporate Facility Management Leadership: 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: 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: Oversee the financial and commercial management of HSE and facilities-related contracts, ensuring cost efficiency and strong contractual performance.
Safety and corporate workplace integration: Ensure full alignment between HSSE standard and corporate workplace execution.
Leadership & Organizational Development: 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.
Your Story Job requirements
Education & Qualifications: Hold a bachelor’s degree in Occupational Health and Safety or a related field, providing a solid academic foundation for this role.
Professional Experience: Bring over 10 years of industry experience in HSSE leadership within industrial, energy or process environments.
HSE & Technical Expertise: Have strong expertise in corporate workplace safety, construction safety and production safety, combined with a focus on health and well-being. Familiar with COHS standards and bring solid financial acumen, including budgeting and cost control.
Strategic & Operational Mindset: A strategic thinker with the ability to translate strategy into effective operational execution, navigating both high-level planning and hands-on implementation.
Leadership & People Development: Bring strong leadership skills with the ability to develop and grow teams, fostering collaboration and performance across diverse stakeholders.
Communication & Stakeholder Management: Communicate clearly and confidently, with excellent internal and external stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence across different levels of the organization. Experience managing contractors, vendors and facility operations.
Ownership & Adaptability: Demonstrate a high level of ownership, accountability and decision‑making capability, and be comfortable managing complexity, shifting priorities and change in dynamic environments.
Languages & Mobility: Fluent in German and English and open to travel (approximately 10%), including site visits to Iceland and testing facilities.
Our promise At Climeworks, you are accepted for who you are, and we are committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply – regardless of background, identity, or experience. Studies show that women and individuals from minority backgrounds often only apply for jobs when they meet 100% of the listed criteria. If this sounds like you, don’t hold back. If you think you’d make a great fit for this role, we’d love to hear from you, even if you don’t check every single box. Let us tackle one of humankind’s greatest challenges together.
What we offer
Time Off: Enjoy 25 paid vacation days every year, plus public holidays.
Ownership: Fair base pay paired with an equity package – because your contributions matter.
Family Support: Inclusive parental leave.
Continuous Learning: Dedicated budget to invest in your professional growth.
Referral Rewards: Help us grow our team and earn bonuses for your successful referrals.
Salary At Climeworks, salary ranges are assigned to a job based on the level of seniority and the location specific market median of similar jobs according to external benchmark surveys. Individual compensation depends on your skills, experience, and the value you bring to the team.
Formalities
This position is based in Opfikon, Zurich, and we ask that you work onsite at least four days per week.
We do not accept candidate profiles through recruitment agencies.
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HSE & Facility Senior Manager (100%) Arbeitgeber: Climeworks
Climeworks ist ein hervorragender Arbeitgeber, der eine inklusive und wertschätzende Arbeitsumgebung bietet, in der jeder Mitarbeiter geschätzt wird. Mit 25 bezahlten Urlaubstagen, einem fairen Gehalt und einem Budget für kontinuierliches Lernen unterstützt das Unternehmen die persönliche und berufliche Entwicklung seiner Mitarbeiter. Zudem haben Sie die Möglichkeit, in einer Schlüsselrolle zur Sicherheit und Effizienz an unserem Hauptsitz in Opfikon beizutragen und dabei aktiv an der Lösung einer der größten Herausforderungen der Menschheit mitzuwirken.
