Fuels Licensing Manager

About the role

The Fuels Licensing Manager at Oklo is responsible for applying nuclear regulatory knowledge and experience to support engineering development towards meeting licensing requirements. This role involves working closely with design engineers to understand, interpret, and inform the design basis as needed to comply with U.S. nuclear regulations. The Fuels Licensing Manager will also help develop documentation to support licensing associated with both pre-application activities and license application submittal and review.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, review, and maintain licensing document content, programs, and supporting licensing related products and activities for Oklo's fuel fabrication and recycling technologies
• Plan, organize, and perform complex assignments in a team environment
• Support project management of licensing activities and deliverables, including the submittal of licensing documents and associated schedules, milestones, etc.
• Support development of engineering and licensing requirements and documentation for nuclear systems and components in an interactive manner with other engineering functional areas
• Cook up and interface with design engineers, including the review of technical materials, to ensure new designs and design changes meet regulatory requirements
• Cook up and interface with the nuclear regulator, both from a regulatory and planning perspective
• Prepare and defend Oklo's licensing positions for areas where the existing regulatory framework either does not apply, or for which there is need for the development of new or revised regulatory requirements or guidance
• Prepare and deliver licensing presentations to internal and external organizations
• Lead resolution of key strategic licensing issues

Requirements

• BS in engineering from an accredited college or university or related experience
• Knowledge of 10 CFR 70 along with NRC Regulatory Guides and other regulatory guidance
• Demonstrated coordination skills: ability to earn the trust of team members and management
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Proven team player with excellent verbal, written communication/presentation, and interpersonal skills

Qualifications

• Passionate about clean energy, the environment, and making advanced fission and nuclear fuel recycling a reality
• Willing and able to learn quickly and to think differently in a highly regulated industry
• Ability to manage and coordinate complex projects with a variety of stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to communicate highly technical content verbally
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, highly iterative startup environment
• Eager to work on a dynamic team, receive constructive feedback, and grow with us
• Flexible and open to new ideas; ability to work with a highly collaborative team
• Ability to translate strategic regulatory decisions into licensing deliverables
• Ability to handle projects that include many competing objectives and design constraints, with ability to resolve conflicts between objectives
• An excellent writer who can write in a modern, active voice—make your cover letter compelling and write it well!

Competencies

• A startup person: You aren't driven by titles or hierarchy, and prefer efficiency to excess process. You don't need or expect to have a lot of guidance but you enjoy working in a fast-paced team. If you prefer the culture and feel of a large organization, that is great, but you likely won’t enjoy working with us! There is plenty of important work and plenty of good opportunities with organizations like that.
• Motivated: You are self-motivated. You bring an enthusiasm to the team, and imbue a sense of passion that goes beyond clocking in and clocking out. This isn’t about a fake or arbitrary “pieces of flair” mentality or lack of work-life balance! It is about being a part of the vision and feeling a part of reaching team goals.
• A team-player: Oklo genuinely is a team. We aren’t about taking credit for ourselves, and we aren’t about pushing blame to others. We do incredible things because we work as a team.
• An excellent communicator: We need a person who is not only technically competent but also a clear and upbeat communicator.
• Creative: Being creative means that when things fall outside clear scopes or processes or problems arise without clear solutions, you are able to identify it as well as invent ways to solve a problem or fill a need without micromanagement. The successful person in this job will not only be creative, but also enjoy being creative and solving open-ended problems which may change day-by-day.
• Detail-oriented: This focus is a big part of excellence, consistency, and quality. Excellent grammar and spelling matter for both good communication as well as the image of the company that we put forward.

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.