Early Deployments Project Manager

About the role

The Early Deployments Project Manager will spearhead communications among project team members, key stakeholders, and leadership. Experience in startups and/or resource constrained environments is highly desired.

Responsibilities

• Project Management: Organize early deployments project team efforts with concise statement of work, clear deliverables, and approved charters. Develop Gantt charts and work breakdown structures as required for proper management and reporting of project status. Hold the standard on project management policies, procedures, and standards for all related and supporting activities.
• Vendor and Contract Management: Oversee the preparation and management of critical contracting vehicles to support the projects. Manage project timelines, deliverables, and budgets, to quantify, manage and communicate risk to the project. Ensure contracts include provisions to manage and mitigate risk to the project.
• Project Team and Stakeholder Communications: Act as the central point of communications and updates regarding all details of the projects under your management. Regularly update and communicate with supporting vendors, customers, and all stakeholders. Act as a liaison between senior leadership, project teams, and external stakeholders to ensure alignment and resolve conflicts.
• Financial reporting and Risk Management: Coordinate with finance and the project controller to regularly report on the project budget. Identify and mitigate financial, timeline, and performance risks.
• Quality and deliverable acceptance criteria: Coordinate with Engineering and Quality Assurance to verify requirements and accept deliverables. Identify non-conformances and track corrections while updating impact to the project and managing required changes. Ensure that Safety Related items' quality is properly documented and filed as a part of acceptance.
• Team Leadership and management: Coordinate communications and maintain accountability for project milestones. Through project management disciplines, foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and common purpose. Monitor project performance and leverage leadership interest and sponsorship to bring additional resources as may be required.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: 5+ years in technical or industrial project management. Bachelor's degree in engineering or 4-8 years relevant engineering experience. Proficiency in Project Management Software (Primavera and MS Project).
• Bonus Qualifications: Nuclear experience in design, construction, commissioning, or operations. Passionate about Oklo's mission to design and deploy advanced fission power plants to provide clean, reliable, and affordable energy. Willing to think differently and do things in new ways. Comfortable in a fast-paced, highly iterative startup environment. Excited to think creatively, critically, and reflectively about the problems they are solving, while not leaning only on what has been done before. An excellent writer who can write in modern active voice, so make your cover letter compelling and write it well!

Compensation

Salary: $125,000-$175,000. Salary may fall outside of the range provided and will be dependent on applicant experience. Oklo offers flexible time off, equity, competitive pay, 401k, health insurance, FSA, flexible work hours, and other benefits.

Travel Requirements

Oklo requires remote employees to travel to headquarters (Santa Clara, CA) twice a quarter annually, based on business or team needs, including attendance at team meetings, off-sites, and other company events or gatherings. For the first two weeks of onboarding, employees are required to be in person at headquarters in Santa Clara, CA.

About Oklo

Oklo Inc. is developing fast fission power plants to deliver clean, reliable, and affordable energy at scale; establishing a domestic supply chain for critical radioisotopes; and advancing nuclear fuel recycling to convert nuclear waste into clean energy. Oklo was the first to receive a site use permit from the U.S. Department of Energy for a commercial advanced fission plant, was awarded fuel material from Idaho National Laboratory, and submitted the first custom combined license application for an advanced reactor to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Oklo is also developing advanced fuel recycling technologies in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. National Laboratories.