Recycling Operations Engineer Lead
About the role
Operations Engineering Lead for Oklo's nuclear fuel recycling facility, responsible for establishing the operating model and operations engineering basis across design, construction, commissioning, startup, and ramp-up to ensure safety, operability, maintainability, testability, and performance objectives.
Responsibilities
- Lead development and configuration control of the facility concept of operations, including normal operation, startup, shutdown, standby, maintenance, upset, degraded, and emergency operating modes.
- Translate operational, safety, security, safeguards, material control and accountability, and regulatory needs into traceable design requirements, operating philosophies, system boundaries, operating sequences, preliminary operating limits, and acceptance criteria, in coordination with the responsible functional owners.
- Represent operations throughout facility and system design to ensure equipment and systems are safe, secure, operable, maintainable, accessible, testable, and suitable for remote and radiological environments.
- Complete documented operability, maintainability, accessibility, remote-handling, operator-task, human-factors, and failure-recovery reviews, with actions tracked through disposition.
- Review PFDs, P&IDs, equipment specifications, layouts, control narratives, alarm strategies, human-machine interfaces, system descriptions, and safety-related design inputs from an operations perspective.
- Lead development of preliminary staffing, procedure, training, maintenance, commissioning, startup, facility-turnover, and production-ramp-up plans with interfaces, milestones, responsibilities, and acceptance criteria.
- Establish requirements for system turnover, walkdowns, pre-operational testing, cold commissioning, integrated testing, initial material introduction, and operational-readiness reviews.
- Participate in design reviews, hazard analyses, safety reviews, human-factors evaluations, maintainability reviews, readiness reviews, configuration management, and management-of-change activities.
- Coordinate with maintenance and reliability teams to define equipment criticality, preventive maintenance, spare parts, vendor support, work controls, and asset-management needs.
- Build and lead the operations engineering organization as the project matures, communicating readiness status, risks, decisions, and unresolved design actions to project and technical leadership.
Qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree in chemical, nuclear, mechanical, electrical, industrial, or another relevant engineering discipline, or equivalent directly applicable experience.
- 10 or more years of experience in nuclear fuel-cycle, nuclear, chemical, petrochemical, refining, specialty chemical, or another complex industrial process environment.
- Significant experience in facility operations, commissioning, startup, maintenance, or operational support, combined with experience supporting facility design or capital projects.
- Experience with greenfield facility development, brownfield modifications, or both.
- Demonstrated experience developing or implementing commissioning, operational-readiness, procedure, training, maintenance, or startup programs.
- Ability to translate engineering designs into practical operating requirements, test plans, procedures, staffing needs, and acceptance criteria.
- Experience reviewing engineering documents such as PFDs, P&IDs, equipment specifications, control narratives, and system descriptions.
- Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, manage interfaces, and deliver work in an evolving project environment.
- Strong technical writing, communication, organization, and decision-making skills.
Skills
Benefits
- flexible time off
- equity
- bonuses
- competitive pay
- 401(k)
- health insurance (with employer contribution)
- HSA
- FSA
- flexible work hours
- wellness credits
- other benefits
About Oklo
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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