Project Planner

About the role

The Project Planner at Oklo is responsible for managing all aspects of ongoing projects, including project scheduling, vendor engagement, and stakeholder communication. They are expected to develop and maintain comprehensive project schedules, coordinate with project managers, and provide regular reports to leadership.

Responsibilities

• Track and report on capital and revenue projects
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project schedules, incorporating work breakdown structures (WBS) and Gantt charts
• Coordinate with project managers to update project milestones and deliverables
• Provide regular reports to leadership, highlighting project status, risks, and opportunities for improvement
• Facilitate clear and consistent communication among project teams, vendors, and stakeholders
• Ensure that changes to project schedules are communicated promptly, assessing impacts on the critical path and overall project delivery
• Work closely with the finance team to monitor project budgets, track expenditures, and forecast financial needs
• Utilize enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to manage project-related financial data, ensuring accuracy and compliance
• Support the development of financial reports that inform decision-making and strategic planning
• Coordinate with engineering and quality assurance teams to define and document deliverable acceptance criteria
• Compile and organize project documentation, creating comprehensive records that support knowledge transfer and future project planning
• Lead the project closeout process, ensuring that all objectives are met and lessons learned are captured

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, project management, or related field
• 5+ years of experience in project planning
• Experience with planning on large ($10+ Million) capital projects
• Proficiency in MS Project, SmartSheets, or other project management software tools

Qualifications

• PMP or PMI-SP certification
• Familiarity with ERP systems like NetSuite or SAP
• Experience with energy infrastructure projects (design, construction, or commissioning)
• Experience at startups

Skills

• Excellent communicator
• Effective with vendors, project team members, company leadership, customers, regulating agencies, and other key project stakeholders
• Experienced in project management within technical or industrial environments
• Skilled at maintaining schedules and enforcing routines in a creative and fast-paced culture
• 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
• Able to write in a modern active voice, making the cover letter compelling

Benefits

Flexible time off, equity, competitive pay, 401k, health insurance, FSA, flexible work hours, and other benefits.

Pay

$70,000 - $110,000

Schedule

Remote employees are required 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.