Fuel Fabrication Project Engineer

Thanks for your interest in Oklo!  We are searching for a Fuel Fabrication Project Engineer to join our team. 

Position Description

As a Project Engineer on Oklo’s fuel fabrication team, you’ll be responsible for supporting multidisciplinary nuclear design, licensing, procurement, and construction activities by coordinating project schedules, initiating nuclear-grade purchasing, and ensuring clear task tracking across multiple facility deployments for all team members. This role plays a critical part in maintaining nuclear safety, regulatory compliance, and disciplined project execution. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, technically capable, and well-versed in the rigor required in nuclear environments.

This is a highly cross-functional role where technical excellence and a collaborative mindset are equally valued.

Specific responsibilities may include:

• Develop and maintain integrated schedules for nuclear system design, equipment qualification, procurement, and construction activities.
• Incorporate regulatory milestones, QA/QC steps, readiness reviews, and hold points into project timelines.
• Track progress across engineering disciplines (mechanical, electrical, I&C, safety analysis, licensing).
• Identify schedule risks, critical-path items, and long-lead nuclear components.
• Lead recurring project coordination meetings, ensuring alignment between engineering, licensing, procurement, and construction teams.
• Prepare status reports for internal leadership and regulators (as applicable).
• Generate procurement documentation for safety-related, ASME-coded, and nuclear-grade equipment.
• Manage RFQs, vendor communications, and verification of technical and quality requirements (e.g., material certs, CMTRs, FATs, documentation packages).
• Track lead times, manufacturing progress, inspections, and delivery schedules of critical nuclear components.
• Work closely with supply chain quality, engineering, and project managers to ensure compliance with nuclear procurement processes.
• Maintain detailed engineering task lists, design action logs, and configuration-controlled revision tracking.
• Use workflow tools (e.g., Jira, Smartsheet, etc.) to monitor engineering deliverables, safety analyses, and change requests.
• Track cross-functional tasks involving design, safety analysis, licensing, quality, and fabrication teams.
• Drive timely completion of design outputs required for regulatory submittals, procurement packages, or construction milestones.
• Produce weekly progress reports with status indicators, overdue items, and resource gaps.
• Support preparation for audits, design reviews, readiness assessments, and regulatory inspections.
• Present schedule impacts, procurement status, and risk mitigation updates to leadership and regulatory stakeholders.
• Document project decisions, change impacts, and maintain traceability for regulated engineering activities.
• Ensure project documentation follows nuclear QA requirements (e.g., NQA-1 or equivalent).
• Manage design records, procurement documentation, inspection results, and nonconformance follow-up.
• Assist in developing and improving internal processes related to scheduling, procurement, and engineering workflow.
• Support risk assessments, cost tracking, and project performance reporting.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Nuclear Engineering or a related engineering discipline
• 2–5+ years of experience in greenfield or brownfield engineering projects in a regulated industrial environment preferred.
• Understanding of quality management systems and functioned under at least one licensed system.
• Experience with project scheduling tools.
• Strong understanding of technical drawings, engineering deliverables, and procurement packages.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Solid understanding of mechanical and electrical design principles
• Working knowledge of material selection (particularly metals), manufacturing methods, and fabrication techniques
• Proven ability to function in a collaborative team environment on projects through the full development cycle—from concept and design to testing and production
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly document and present engineering work
• Comfortable working with external manufacturers and engineering consultants

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience with advanced reactor technologies (e.g., microreactors, fast reactors, SMRs).
• Familiarity with regulatory processes (NRC, DOE, ASME code compliance).