🚀 Join Spark Cleantech : At the Heart of Sustainable Innovation

🌱 Sector: Deep Tech / Cleantech / Innovation

✨ Who We Are

Spark Cleantech is a fast-growing and innovative start-up developing a breakthrough process that replaces the combustion of hydrocarbons in high-temperature industrial furnaces and in materials production with an alternative that is not only fully decarbonised, but also economically competitive and requires only minimal adaptation to existing industrial processes.

Following the successful deployment of an industrial pilot on a client site in 2024 and a major funding round in 2025, we are now building our first industrial standard.

Our ambition is bold: to address, by 2027, sectors that represent 10% of the global CO2 emissions on a multi hundred Bn€ market.

To support this growth, we aim to hire around 20 talented individuals to join our team who share our vision, contributing to a more sustainable world, and our values: positivity, passion, and high standards. We are looking to bring together top experts in their fields to industrialize a technology that comes with exciting challenges.

Our team is passionate, positive, and committed to building a cleaner future. If you’re looking to join a high-impact, ambitious, and innovative project, we’d love to hear from you!

🎯 Your Role

At Spark we believe that more safety is more performance and more serenity.

As part of the Operations division and reporting to the COO, you will be responsible for building, deploying and leading Spark’s integrated Health, Safety, Environment and Quality (HSEQ) framework to enable safe, compliant and scalable industrial growth from pilot phase to full commercial deployment across customer sites.

You role is to make HSE performance and product quality structural drivers of operational excellence, industrial credibility and business value.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Ensuring that the motto "Spark believes that more safety is more performance and more serenity" becomes the cultureof the company in a context of rapid ramp up of operations and industrial risks, across engineering, construction, operations and customer deployment environments.

• Structuring and deploying Spark’s integrated HSEQ referential framework.

And more specifically :

• Define and implement the company HSEQ vision, policies and management system aligned with Spark’s industrial roadmap and regulatory obligations.

• Establish governance, performance indicators and reporting to executive leadership.

• Develop a strong safety and quality culture.

• Secure the transition from prototype to pilot operations then to industrial facilities at customer sites.

• Define HSEQ standards for engineering (safety in design), construction, commissioning and operations, including EPCs and suppliers.

• Manage HSE interfaces, contractual responsibilities and risk exposure when Spark technology is installed and operated within customer industrial environments.

• Build the quality management system supporting product qualification, process reproductivity and customer acceptance.

• Prepare Spark for future certification processes and client audits.

🧠 Your Profile

• Master of Science in Process, Safety, Chemical or Mechanical Engineering.

• Minimum 10 years of experience in construction and/or operations management in industrial environments in Europe. Proven experience in brownfield projects, covering construction, commissioning and operational phases. Strong experience with permitting processes and regulatory compliance in France and across Europe.

• Fully bilingual in French and English, both written and spoken.

• Solid understanding of the full industrial lifecycle, from engineering to operations including SIMOPS, permit-to-work systems, contractor management, and operational readiness.

• Proven ability to plan and manage construction and operational risks (eg. RAMS, SIMOPS procedures, permit-to-work, Emergency Response Plans, staff training and certification).

• Ability to ensure regulatory and environmental reporting.

• Strong knowledge of quality and continuous improvement methodologies (eg: ISO 9001, inspections, and a clear understanding of the difference between Quality Control and Quality Assurance, PDCA cycle, improvement plan management).

• Ability to translate objectives into clear, actionable plans executed by cross-functional teams.

• Excellent written communication skills, including development of technical and operational reference documentation.

• Strong ability to listen, influence and convince across functions in a multicultural environment.

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with senior and operational stakeholders.

• Strong leadership and people management skills, with the ability to unite teams, motivate, influence and challenge when required.

• High level of rigor and attention to detail.

• Strong results- and solution-oriented mindset, with a clear focus on delivery.

You want to participate in a meaningful mission: contributing to a more sustainable future

🧪 Recruitment Process

We keep things fast and simple:

• A brief 15-minute phone call with our HR team to get to know each other and discuss the role and your background

• An in-person meeting with the hiring manager, for a more in-depth conversation

• If the discussion goes well, we’ll follow up with a technical case study that will also allow you to know us better

• Final step: reference checks

📣 A Note on Diversity and Confidence

Studies show that many women only apply if they meet 100% of the listed criteria. The skills listed here are guidelines, not strict requirements.

We’d be delighted to hear from you even if you don’t tick every single box. We're looking to build teams that can innovate and grow together.

All applications are welcome, regardless of background, age, origin or gender, don’t hesitate to apply !