Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Oklo Inc. is developing fast fission power plants to deliver clean, reliable, and affordable energy at scale. They are seeking an Early Deployments Project Manager to lead project communications and manage cross-functional teams for site characterization and permitting, ensuring projects are set up for successful handoff to construction.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Coordinate with finance and the project controller to regularly report on the project budget
- Identify and mitigate financial, timeline, and performance risks
- 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
- 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
Skills
- 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)
- Experience in startups and/or resource constrained environments
- Technical management experience
- Strong understanding of quality assurance standards
- Nuclear experience in design, construction, commissioning, or operations
- Creativity with a detailed understanding of measured and well managed risk
- Experienced in technical industrial projects, especially with familiarity of challenges related to permitting, civil engineering, and utilities
- 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
Benefits
- Flexible time off
- Equity
- Competitive pay
- 401k
- Health insurance
- FSA
- Flexible work hours
Company Overview
Oklo's mission is to provide clean, reliable, affordable energy through the deployment of next-generation fast fission technology and recycling nuclear waste. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://oklo.com.