Recycling Operations Manager

About the role

The Recycling Operations Manager is a strategic, cross-functional operator who focuses on how recycling work happens within Oklo's Recycling Division. This role identifies friction points across communication, organization, tooling, information flow, and process, then partners with senior leadership to design and implement practical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose root causes across process, tooling, ownership, communication, and cross-team interfaces, and implement solutions.
• Own scalability and efficiency of the recycling division processes, including budgeting, purchasing, planning, and hiring.
• Own and maintain the division procurement process to ensure proposals and contracts are properly scoped and swiftly executed.
• Create and maintain engineering work instructions and best practices, ensuring they are clearly documented and easy to access. Partner with quality assurance to ensure practices are right-sized and in compliance.
• Identify opportunities to replace overly manual workflows with automation or improved tooling.
• Work with Business Ops and Procurement to streamline budgeting, purchasing, and resource planning for engineering teams.
• Cook up and execute high-leverage recycling forums (e.g., offsites, design reviews, all-hands) to ensure they are purposeful and well-run.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in engineering operations, product operations, management consulting, technical program management, or similar roles.
• Demonstrated experience improving cross-functional workflows, operating models, or organizational systems.
• Experience working directly with senior leadership (Director level and above) to diagnose problems, influence decisions, and implement change.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to operate independently in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience working with engineering, hardware, or other highly technical teams.
• Exposure to heavily regulated industries (energy, nuclear, aerospace, medical devices).
• Experience in a startup or scaling organization.
• Familiarity with tools such as Confluence, Jira, or similar systems.

Competencies

• Strong structured problem-solving skills; ability to break ambiguous problems into clear workstreams and decisions.
• Experience designing and improving operating models, processes, or systems for technical teams.
• Comfort working with technical content and engineering organizations without being the technical expert.
• Ability to build and maintain lightweight dashboards, trackers, or operating rhythms.
• Judgment to apply "just enough process" to meet compliance and scaling needs without slowing teams down.

About Oklo

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.

Compensation

Salary: $140,000-$180,000

Benefits

• Flexible time off
• Equity
• Bonuses
• Competitive pay
• 401(k)
• Health insurance (with employer contribution)
• HSA
• FSA
• Flexible work hours
• Wellness credits
• 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.

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