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Project Quality Specialist

Oklo· Quality Assurance
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Idaho Falls, ID, Hybrid (Remote ( Idaho Falls based))$80k - $120kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Support both quality assurance and quality control activities across engineering, procurement, construction, inspection, testing, and turnover to deliver safe and reliable projects in a nuclear energy context. Embedded with project and EPC teams, applying QA programs in accordance with ASME NQA-1 and ANSI/ANS-15.8, while performing hands-on QC and field inspections in office and field environments.

Responsibilities

  • Support the implementation, maintenance, assessment, and continuous improvement of the project Quality Assurance Program and perform assigned quality control activities in accordance with ASME NQA-1, ANSI/ANS-15.8, applicable project requirements, and Oklo procedures.
  • Interpret quality, contractual, technical, regulatory, and code requirements and translate them into practical project controls, procedures, work instructions, inspection plans, and acceptance criteria.
  • Develop and maintain project quality plans, inspection and test plans, inspection checklists, surveillance plans, quality requirement matrices, and hold or witness points for engineering, procurement, construction, testing, and turnover activities.
  • Participate in design and constructability reviews to verify that quality requirements, design inputs, interfaces, field changes, as-built conditions, and configuration controls are adequately addressed and implemented.
  • Review procurement specifications, requisitions, purchase orders, and subcontracts to ensure appropriate quality clauses, technical requirements, supplier documentation, source inspection, and records requirements are included and flowed down.
  • Support supplier qualification, evaluation, audits, surveys, source surveillances, performance monitoring, and issue resolution in coordination with Procurement, Engineering, and Supplier Quality.
  • Review supplier and subcontractor submittals, quality plans, procedures, inspection records, material certifications, certificates of conformance, test reports, and final data packages for completeness and compliance.
  • Provide field quality assurance oversight and perform quality control verification of EPC contractors and subcontractors conducting civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation and controls work.
  • Perform and document source, receiving, in-process, construction, and final inspections; witness tests; review inspection and test results; verify objective evidence; and confirm that items and completed work meet approved drawings, specifications, procedures, codes, and acceptance criteria.
  • Identify, document, and control nonconforming or unacceptable conditions and communicate inspection status to responsible personnel.
  • Inspect and verify controls for special processes, including personnel qualifications, approved procedures, material traceability, environmental conditions, calibrated measuring and test equipment, welding, nondestructive examination, heat treatment, and concrete placement and testing, as applicable.
  • Monitor construction work packages, field activities, requests for information, design changes, inspection results, punch-list items, and quality control documentation; promptly identify, document, communicate, and escalate conditions adverse to quality.
  • Initiate, review, and track nonconformance reports, deviations, corrective actions, and related quality issues; support technical dispositions, root cause evaluations, extent-of-condition reviews, and effectiveness verifications; and confirm approved dispositions are properly implemented.
  • Plan and perform project audits, surveillances, assessments, and field inspections of internal organizations, EPC contractors, suppliers, and subcontractors; document results and verify timely and effective closure of findings, observations, and inspection deficiencies.
  • Ensure quality assurance records, quality control inspection records, and construction completion documentation are complete, legible, accurate, traceable, and retrievable, and support the assembly and acceptance of turnover packages and final project records.
  • Support prevention and identification of counterfeit, fraudulent, and suspect items and ensure potential concerns are controlled, evaluated, documented, and reported in accordance with applicable requirements.
  • Develop quality assurance and quality control metrics, inspection status reports, trend analyses, and project quality updates that clearly communicate performance, emerging risks, recurring issues, and recommended actions to project leadership.
  • Provide practical quality assurance, quality control, and inspection guidance to Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Project Management, and contractor personnel, and promote a strong culture of quality, ownership, and continuous improvement.
  • Support construction completion, system turnover, commissioning, readiness reviews, testing, and project closeout activities by verifying that required inspections, test results, records, nonconformance dispositions, and quality actions are complete.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of quality assurance, quality control, quality engineering, inspection, construction, or related experience in nuclear energy, DOE work, EPC projects, or another highly regulated, technically complex environment.
  • Working knowledge of ASME NQA-1 and/or ANSI/ANS-15.8 and demonstrated ability to apply quality assurance and quality control requirements to engineering, procurement, construction, inspection, testing, or project execution activities.
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, quality, physical science, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education, technical training, and relevant experience.
  • Experience reviewing drawings, specifications, procedures, procurement documents, inspection and test plans, construction work packages, supplier documentation, and objective quality evidence.
  • Experience personally performing field inspections and supporting surveillances, audits, nonconformance control, corrective action, and quality records activities.
  • Ability to work on-site in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and travel to supplier, contractor, or other project locations as business needs require.

Skills

Required:ASME NQA-1ANSI/ANS-15.8Inspection planningNonconformance managementField inspectionsDocumentation & recordsCommunication

Benefits

  • flexible time off
  • equity
  • bonuses
  • competitive pay
  • 401(k)
  • health insurance (with employer contribution)
  • HSA
  • FSA
  • flexible work hours
  • wellness credits
  • other benefits
Last updated Aug 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Emission free, always on power from advanced fission power plants.

About Oklo Inc.: Oklo Inc. (Oklo) is developing advanced fission power plants to provide emission-free, reliable, and affordable energy. Oklo received a Site Use Permit from the U.S Department of Energy, has performed successful prototypic fuel fabrication, was awarded fuel material from Idaho National Laboratory, developed the first advanced fission combined license application accepted and docketed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and is developing advanced fuel recycling technologies in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy and national laboratories. Oklo has been featured in Time, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Popular Mechanics, Wired, Architectural Digest, Hyperallergic, POWER Magazine, has been the subject of a Harvard Business School case, and is featured in the Oliver Stone documentary Nuclear, among other features.

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