Early Deployments Project Manager

Position Description

The Early Deployments Project Manager will spearhead communications among project team members, key stakeholders, and leadership. Experience in startups and/or resource constrained environments is highly desired. The early deployments team is cross‑functional and supports the site characterization and permitting for Oklo projects, preparing the site for handoff to construction. Creativity with a detailed understanding of measured and well managed risk are highly valued.

An engineering degree is preferred and technical management experience is required. A strong understanding of quality assurance standards is essential.

• Project Management:
  • Organize early deployments project team efforts with concise statement of work, clear deliverables, and approved charters
  • Develop Gantt charts and work breakdown structures as required for proper management and reporting of project status
  • Hold the standard on project management policies, procedures, and standards for all related and supporting activities
• Vendor and Contract Management:
  • Oversee the preparation and management of critical contracting vehicles to support the projects
  • Manage project timelines, deliverables, and budgets, to quantify, manage and communicate risk to the project
  • Ensure contracts include provisions to manage and mitigate risk to the project
• Project Team and Stakeholder Communications:
  • Act as the central point of communications and updates regarding all details of the projects under your management
  • Regularly update and communicate with supporting vendors, customers, and all stakeholders
  • Act as a liaison between senior leadership, project teams, and external stakeholders to ensure alignment and resolve conflicts
• Financial reporting and
  
  Risk Management:
  • Coordinate with finance and the project controller to regularly report on the project budget
  • Identify and mitigate financial, timeline, and performance risks
• Quality and deliverable acceptance criteria:
  • Coordinate with Engineering and Quality Assurance to verify requirements and accept deliverables
  • Identify non-conformances and track corrections while updating impact to the project and managing required changes
  • Ensure that Safety Related items' quality is properly documented and filed as a part of acceptance
• Team Leadership and management:
  • Coordinate communications and maintain accountability for project milestones
  • Through project management disciplines, foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and common purpose
  • Monitor project performance and leverage leadership interest and sponsorship to bring additional resources as may be required

• 5+ years in technical or industrial project management
• Bachelor's degree in engineering or 4-8 years relevant engineering experience
• Proficiency in Project Management Software (Primavera and MS Project)

• Nuclear experience in design, construction, commissioning, or operations

• Experienced in technical industrial projects, especially with familiarity of challenges related to permitting, civil engineering, and utilities
• Creative when pursuing tasks in resource constrained environments
• An active and effective communicator of priorities
• Able to recognize, accept, and manage risk
• 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
• An excellent writer who can write in modern active voice, so make your cover letter compelling and write it well!

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.

Oklo offers flexible time off, equity,…