Environmental, Safety and Health Director

Environmental, Safety and Health Director

Aalo Atomics is pioneering a new era in clean energy with factory-fabricated microreactors designed to deliver affordable, scalable, and reliable nuclear power. Our mission is to make nuclear energy globally accessible, starting with the Aalo-1, a 10 MWe reactor leveraging cutting-edge safety, modularity, and efficiency. Based in Austin, TX, we’re rapidly growing as we work to deploy the world’s first fleet of advanced microreactors.

Join us and help revolutionize energy for a sustainable future.

The Environmental, Safety and Health (ES&H) Director leads Aalo’s environmental protection, industrial safety, emergency management, and radiological-control functions. The Director establishes field-centered organizations to support both the Idaho Falls Operations facility as well as the Manufacturing Center in Austin that enables safe execution while maintaining compliance with applicable OSHA, DOE, Local and State requirements, permits, company programs, and facility authorization commitments.

This role reports to the Senior Vice President, Nuclear Operations and provides independent challenge, practical risk control, and clear escalation of significant issues. Expectations are to develop and own your programs, lead by example, have a presence in the field, and most importantly, value your team.

• Lead Environmental and Regulatory Compliance, Industrial Safety, Emergency Management, and Radiological Controls personnel and programs supporting CTR, Aalo-0, Aalo-X, construction, testing, and operations.
• Assess and establish the necessary staff and programs to ensure environmental controls and safe work execution and compliance with Federal and State requirements at the Austin TX manufacturing centers.
• Establish clear ES&H requirements, roles, interfaces, performance standards, and field-implementation expectations.
• Ensure hazards are identified, analyzed, and controlled through integrated work planning, permits, procedures, pre-job briefs, field observations, and stop-work authority.
• Maintain environmental permits, monitoring, reporting, waste-management interfaces, and regulatory commitments applicable to Idaho Falls activities.
• Ensure radiation-protection programs, radiological work controls, surveys, dosimetry, ALARA planning, postings, instrumentation, and records support safe authorized work.
• Maintain emergency plans, procedures, drills, communications, response interfaces, and readiness, including coordination with MFC response organizations where applicable.
• Provide timely review and practical resolution of construction, commissioning, testing, maintenance, and operating issues without weakening required controls.
• Enter ES&H deficiencies into the corrective action program, establish ownership and due dates, evaluate extent of condition, and verify effective closure.
• Track leading and lagging performance indicators and conduct field assessments to identify weak signals before events occur.
• Communicate significant risks, noncompliance, and unresolved disagreements directly to the SVP, Nuclear Operations and appropriate facility authority.

• 10 or more years of progressively responsible ES&H experience in nuclear, chemical, energy, industrial construction, or another high-hazard operating environment.
• Five or more years leading multiple ES&H disciplines or a comparably broad department at the manager or director level.
• Demonstrated knowledge of industrial safety, environmental compliance, emergency management, and radiation-protection interfaces for nuclear construction and operations.
• Experience implementing DOE or NRC-regulated safety programs, integrated safety management, corrective action, assessment, and readiness processes.
• Demonstrated ability to translate regulatory and technical requirements into executable field controls and to exercise independent stop-work authority.
• Experience working with DOE, state and federal regulators, national laboratories, emergency-response organizations, and independent oversight preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in occupational safety, environmental science, health physics, engineering, physical…