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Plant Manager

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Idaho Falls, ID$180k - $210kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Plant Manager to coordinate on-site facility readiness and operations at the Aurora powerhouse project located at Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls, ID.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and coordinate day-to-day on-site facility operations in accordance with approved procedures, site requirements, and applicable regulatory expectations.
  • Oversee facility support activities, including maintenance coordination, work control, planning and scheduling, facility readiness, logistics, material handling, and site access needs.
  • Coordinate preventive and corrective maintenance, equipment issue resolution, work prioritization, and restoration of facility systems and infrastructure.
  • Implement and improve facility operations programs, work-control practices, operational procedures, and performance standards.
  • Coordinate facility modifications, equipment installations, infrastructure improvements, utility and support-system work, facility turnover, and related contractor activities.
  • Oversee contractors, vendors, and cross-functional work teams to support safe, timely, and effective execution of on-site work.
  • Support industrial and nuclear safety, radiation protection, security and access control, environmental requirements, emergency preparedness, and response to abnormal or emergent facility conditions.
  • Support facility and organizational readiness activities, including assessments, action tracking, procedure implementation, staffing coordination, and transition to routine operations.
  • Coordinate material receipt, storage, inventory accountability, equipment staging, deliveries, and other site logistics activities.
  • Maintain facility records, logs, procedures, work-tracking systems, schedules, performance measures, and programmatic reporting.
  • Support inspections, assessments, audits, corrective actions, and follow-up activities related to facility operations and site commitments.
  • Coordinate with Idaho National Laboratory site services and applicable oversight interfaces to communicate facility needs, resolve issues, and track required actions.
  • Promote operational discipline, procedural compliance, safety culture, accountability, and continuous improvement across facility activities.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Industrial Technology, Nuclear Engineering, or a related technical discipline; equivalent operational experience may be considered.
  • Minimum of 10 years of experience supporting nuclear facility operations.
  • Experience leading or coordinating multidisciplinary operational and facility-support activities.
  • Demonstrated understanding of operational safety, facility maintenance coordination, work control, planning and scheduling, and procedural compliance.
  • Experience coordinating contractors, site logistics, infrastructure work, or facility support services.
  • Strong understanding of plant and site operations and the interfaces among Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Safety, Security, Quality, and support organizations.
  • Experience working with operational procedures, work-control systems, facility records, and action-tracking processes.
  • Strong organizational, leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in an on-site operational environment.

Skills

Required:Facility operations leadershipMaintenance coordinationSafety and regulatory compliance

Benefits

  • flexible time off
  • equity
  • bonuses
  • competitive pay
  • 401(k)
  • health insurance (with employer contribution)
  • HSA
  • FSA
  • flexible work hours
  • wellness credits
Last updated Sep 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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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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