Vice President BU Nuclear Decommissioning Germany & CEO VENE

Do you want to play a key role in Germany’s energy transition by leading the safe and cost-efficient dismantling of the Brunsbüttel and Krümmel nuclear power plants? 

As Vice President Nuclear Decommissioning Germany, you will head Vattenfall’s Business Unit (BU) Nuclear Decommissioning Germany and serve as Technical Managing Director and Radiation Protection Supervisor for Vattenfall Europe Nuclear Energy GmbH (VENE) with the powerplants Brunsbüttel and Krümmel. Reporting directly to the Senior Executive Vice President of Business Area Generation, you will lead a team of around 500 employees and drive one of Vattenfall’s most significant long-term projects, a mission that will continue well into the mid-2030s. 

Your responsibility spans strategic leadership, operational excellence, and full P&L accountability. You will ensure compliance with all legal and licensing requirements, represent Vattenfall to key stakeholders, and foster innovation, digitalization, and collaboration. Guided by Vattenfall’s core values; open, active, positive, and safe, you will shape the culture that drive the nuclear decommissioning in Germany. 

Vice President Nuclear Decommissioning Germany 
As Vice President of the Business Unit (BU) Nuclear Decommissioning Germany, you hold full strategic, operational, and P&L responsibility for dismantling the Brunsbüttel and Krümmel nuclear plants. The role also includes serving as Technical Managing Director and Radiation Protection Supervisor for VENE and the power plants Brunsbüttel, Krümmel. You report directly to the Senior Executive Vice President of Business Area Generation and lead the BU management team to deliver on business targets and expectations. 

Key responsibilities: 

• Ensure technical, financial, and organizational prerequisites for decommissioning. 
• Provide strategic leadership for the “Greenfield” programs at Brunsbüttel and Krümmel. 
• Develop and monitor compliance systems for legal and licensing requirements. 
• Represent the BU to corporate management, authorities, shareholders, and political stakeholders. 
• Drive organizational transformation, innovation, and digitalization throughout dismantling phases. 
• Foster collaboration, diversity, and a strong performance culture aligned with LEADership expectations, the Vattenfall values as well as diversity and inclusion. 
• Driving decommissioning in a safe and cost-effective manner. 

You are an experienced and inspiring leader with integrity, a strong technical background, and proven ability in stakeholder management, regulatory compliance, and strategic leadership of complex organizations. Experience in nuclear or decommissioning is an advantage. 

You bring solid expertise in managing operational businesses, large technical assets, and technical risk management within an international matrix structure. A university degree in engineering, nuclear technology, physics, or a comparable technical discipline is required. The position is subject to a reliability check under §12b of the Atomic Energy Act. 

In addition, you: 

• Live Vattenfall’s values, open, active, positive, safe and encourage others to do the same. 
• Foster a performance culture in line with Vattenfall’s LEADership expectations. 
• Develop people and teams, striving for continuous improvement. 
• Are performance-driven, accountable, and value feedback. 
• Combine strong business acumen and analytical skills with the ability to see the big picture. 
• Embrace diversity and inclusion as key to success and engagement. 
• Act with integrity, transparency, and build trust. 
• Communicate effectively and manage stakeholders at all levels. 
• Have excellent command of German and English, spoken and written.

We offer an interesting and challenging job and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field. We offer attractive employment conditions (smart working, flexible working hours and a good-work-life balance) and opportunities for personal and professional development. Click here for further information.   
 
Location: Hamburg, Germany. 

We welcome your application in English, with CV no later than January 6, 2026.  We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website. 

For more information about the position you are welcome to contact hiring manager Johan Dasht, johan.dasht@vattenfall.com or Vice President HR, Lotta Henrysson, lotta.henrysson@vattenfall.com. For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact recruiter Peter Blixter, peter.blixter@vattenfall.com. During the upcoming holidays, response to your queries may be a bit delayed.   
  
At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be a good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation. Click here for further information.  

The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall. 

We look forward to receiving your application! 

At Vattenfall, we are working towards a fossil-free future and need people who are fully committed to our customers and a sustainable society – people like you. We are a leading energy company in Europe with around 21,000 employees. For more than 100 years, we have been electrifying industries, supplying people with energy, and modernizing our lifestyle through innovation and collaboration.