Oklo Inc

Director / Senior Director, Project Management

Oklo Inc

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Santa Clara • California • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $200,000 - $250,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

PMP

About the role

  • Lead delivery of Oklo’s FOAK and follow-on projects, including powerhouses and fuel plants, across all phases: planning, construction, commissioning, and handover to operations
  • Develop & implement standard project methodologies, templates and tools and provide coaching and support on application of those process and tools ensuring consistency across all projects
  • Establish and manage Oklo’s Project Management Office (PMO), including governance, decision gates, and standardized processes to ensure consistent execution across projects
  • Manage a portfolio of concurrent projects at varying stages of development
  • Own integrated project schedules, budgets, and risk registers for all projects
  • Create project budgets and financial forecast with the support of project accounting and control staff
  • Track project progress, metrics and deadlines to ensure projects stay on schedule and within approved budgets
  • Provide regular, comprehensive reporting to senior management, executive leadership, the Board, and external stakeholders on project status, risks, and opportunities
  • Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Procurement & Supply Chain Management , Regulatory, Finance, and Business Development teams to align project delivery with business objectives
  • Identify, assess and manage risks for projects, developing strategies to mitigate issues and threats
  • Support negotiation and management of key project contracts (EPC, equipment supply, O&M, and PPAs), ensuring execution aligns with commercial terms
  • Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and permitting obligations across all projects
  • Recruit, develop, and lead a high-performing project management team to support multiple parallel deployments.
  • Drive continuous improvement in project execution processes, systems, and tools to enable scalability across future reactor deployments.
  • Building a high functioning project management team of Oklo and 3rd party staff that can be deployed across the organization.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of project management experience with a proven track record delivering capital projects in power, energy, industrial, or nuclear sectors
  • Demonstrated experience leading large-scale EPC or construction projects, including budgets of $100M+
  • Strong knowledge of project controls (cost, schedule, earned value, risk) and project management systems (Primavera, MS Project, PMIS platforms).
  • PMP (project management professional) certification
  • Proven ability to manage cross-functional teams and external contractors
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills, including executive and Board-level reporting
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or related field
Benefits
  • robust compensation packages including competitive pay
  • equity
  • performance bonuses
  • 401k
  • health insurance
  • FSA
  • flexible work hours
  • flexible time off
  • other benefits

ATS Keywords

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Hard skills
project managementEPC project deliverybudget managementrisk managementproject controlsearned value managementschedulingfinancial forecastingcontinuous improvementconstruction management
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationteam managementcollaborationcoachingreportingnegotiationproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingstakeholder management
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