Senior Manager of Capital Cost Management

About the role

We are seeking an experienced and motivated leader to design, implement, and scale Oklo’s capital project budgeting and cost architecture capability across our first-of-a-kind (FOAK) and subsequent fleet (NOAK) nuclear powerhouses, fuel fabrication facilities, recycling complexes, radioisotope production assets, and supporting infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Standards Governance: Ensure consistent application of budgeting standards across projects and business units. Partner with project controls teams to ensure actuals, forecasts, and reporting align with defined cost structures and methodologies. Establish cost data governance standards to ensure traceability of budgets, commitments, change orders and actuals.
• Cost Curve Development: Develop and institutionalize Oklo’s cost improvement framework. Establish structured capture of cost learnings across projects. Build and maintain internal and external benchmarking. Partner with stakeholders across the org to embed cost improvements into future project budgets and capital planning cycles to drive and support Oklo’s FOAK-to-NOAK cost improvements.
• Capital Cost Architecture: Define the methodology, cost- and work breakdown structures, and governance frameworks for detailed project budgets.
• Project Budgeting: Drive development of detailed project budgets ensuring alignment with cost estimates, scope, resources, and timelines.
• Vendor and Contractor Cost Transparency: Assess and strengthen owner-side cost control maturity required to enable strategic evolution in vendor contracting structures (e.g. T&M vs Firm Price). Partner with legal, supply chain, and deployment partners to align cost structure maturity with contracting strategies.
• Systems Integration: Define and directly implement requirements, processes and standards that will be part of integrations of project financial planning and reporting systems with project management and ERP systems.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in capital project budgeting, cost architecture, or project controls leadership within large-scale power, energy, infrastructure, industrial, or nuclear sectors
• Demonstrated experience designing cost breakdown structures and capital cost taxonomies for large capital portfolios (including projects of $100M+)
• Strong knowledge of project cost systems, job costing methodologies, ERP integration, and capital governance frameworks
• Experience supporting large-scale EPC or construction projects with a strong understanding of owner-side cost control maturity
• Demonstrated experience in portfolio cost optimization, benchmarking, and structured cost learning systems
• Experience analyzing large datasets to identify cost drivers and structural improvement opportunities
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, construction, procurement, finance, and executive leadership
• Excellent communication skills, including executive and Board-level reporting

Compensation

$185,000 - $205,000

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.

About Oklo Inc.

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.

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