Project Quality Specialist
Listed on 2026-08-07
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Quality Assurance - QA/QC
Quality Control - QC Analysts/Managers, Regulatory Compliance Specialist, Quality Engineering
Project Quality Specialist
Idaho Falls, Remote
Oklo is searching for a Project Quality Specialist to support both quality assurance and quality control activities and help ensure that engineering, procurement, construction, inspection, testing, and turnover work is performed with the rigor, discipline, and practical quality controls needed to deliver safe and reliable projects.
The Project Quality Specialist will support the implementation and day-to-day execution of Oklo's project Quality Assurance Program in accordance with ASME NQA-1, ANSI/ANS-15.8, applicable contractual and regulatory requirements, and Oklo procedures, while also performing hands-on quality control and inspection activities. This role will be embedded with project and EPC teams and will provide quality assurance oversight and quality control verification across engineering, procurement, supplier activities, construction, inspection, testing, commissioning, and project turnover.
The successful candidate will be comfortable working in both office and field environments, translating requirements into practical controls, performing and documenting inspections, evaluating objective evidence, and partnering with technical teams to identify and resolve quality issues early.
Specific responsibilities may include:
- Support the implementation, maintenance, assessment, and continuous improvement of the project Quality Assurance Program and perform assigned quality control activities in accordance with ASME NQA-1, ANSI/ANS-15.8, applicable project requirements, and Oklo procedures.
- Interpret quality, contractual, technical, regulatory, and code requirements and translate them into practical project controls, procedures, work instructions, inspection plans, and acceptance criteria.
- Develop and maintain project quality plans, inspection and test plans, inspection checklists, surveillance plans, quality requirement matrices, and hold or witness points for engineering, procurement, construction, testing, and turnover activities.
- Participate in design and constructability reviews to verify that quality requirements, design inputs, interfaces, field changes, as-built conditions, and configuration controls are adequately addressed and implemented.
- Review procurement specifications, requisitions, purchase orders, and subcontracts to ensure appropriate quality clauses, technical requirements, supplier documentation, source inspection, and records requirements are included and flowed down.
- Support supplier qualification, evaluation, audits, surveys, source surveillances, performance monitoring, and issue resolution in coordination with Procurement, Engineering, and Supplier Quality.
- Review supplier and subcontractor submittals, quality plans, procedures, inspection records, material certifications, certificates of conformance, test reports, and final data packages for completeness and compliance.
- Provide field quality assurance oversight and perform quality control verification of EPC contractors and subcontractors conducting civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation and controls work, including earthwork, concrete, structural steel, welding, piping, equipment installation, cable installation, and system construction.
- Perform and document source, receiving, in-process, construction, and final inspections; witness tests; review inspection and test results; verify objective evidence; and confirm that items and completed work meet approved drawings, specifications, procedures, codes, and acceptance criteria. Identify, document, and control nonconforming or unacceptable conditions and communicate inspection status to responsible personnel.
- Inspect and verify controls for special processes, including personnel qualifications, approved procedures, material traceability, environmental conditions, calibrated measuring and test equipment, welding, nondestructive examination, heat treatment, and concrete placement and testing, as applicable.
- Monitor construction work packages, field activities, requests for information, design changes, inspection results, punch-list items, and quality control documentation; promptly identify, document,…
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