Facility Operations Specialist
About the role
On-site, cross-functional role supporting facility readiness and day-to-day operations at the Groves Facility in Lockhart, Texas, including auxiliary operations, maintenance, work control, logistics, radiation-protection support, and security-support activities.
Responsibilities
- Provide auxiliary operations support for facility activities in accordance with approved procedures, site requirements, and direction from Operations leadership.
- Support routine operational evolutions, equipment rounds, facility inspections, maintenance activities, work coordination, and facility-readiness tasks.
- Assist Radiation Protection personnel with designated activities, including radiological surveys, radiological access control, contamination monitoring, and documentation when trained, qualified, and authorized.
- Support site access-control and security-interface activities as assigned and in accordance with approved security procedures.
- Perform administrative and programmatic support, including recordkeeping, procedure use, work tracking, scheduling support, and coordination of on-site activities.
- Operate material-handling and support equipment, such as forklifts, cranes, lifts, and carts, when trained, qualified, and authorized.
- Support industrial-safety programs, hazard controls, housekeeping, corrective actions, and maintenance of safe work areas.
- Assist with material receipt, staging, storage, equipment inventory tracking, deliveries, and other site logistics activities.
- Support facility upgrades, equipment installation and setup, utility and support-system work, and contractor activities.
- Coordinate with contractors and vendors by supporting site access, work-area preparation, material staging, field activities, and issue resolution.
- Respond to abnormal or emergent facility conditions in assigned support roles under the direction of Operations or emergency-response leadership.
- Support Groves Facility site access, deliveries, and site-services coordination as directed.
- Maintain required training, qualifications, and certifications for assigned duties.
Qualifications
- High school diploma or equivalent required; technical training, an associate degree, or equivalent experience preferred.
- Facility maintenance, equipment-installation, construction-support, or contractor-coordination experience.
- Knowledge of operation and maintenance of facility mechanical and electrical systems.
- Ability to perform the essential functions of an on-site industrial role, including standing, walking, lifting, and working around industrial equipment.
- Ability to read and follow procedures, document completed work accurately, and maintain facility records.
- Ability to perform cross-functional support duties after completing applicable training and qualification requirements.
- Forklift or other material-handling equipment experience, or the ability to qualify.
- Strong teamwork, communication, organization, and reliability in an operational environment.
Skills
Benefits
- Flexible time off
- equity
- bonuses
- competitive pay
- 401(k)
- health insurance (with employer contribution)
- HSA
- FSA
- flexible work hours
- wellness credits

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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