HSE & Facility Lead (100%)

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: 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.