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Oklo Inc

Project Planner

Oklo Inc, Santa Clara, California, us, 95053

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Oklo Inc . Thanks for your interest in Oklo! We are searching for a Project Planner to join our team. Position Description:

Project Planners at Oklo are responsible for tracking all aspects of ongoing projects including but not limited to: initial charter and project team assignments, specification of deliverables and vendor engagement and selection, project schedule kept to a daily WBS level of detail, project milestones, and regular reporting to leadership. As the hub of project management activity, the project planner must be an excellent communicator and highly effective with vendors, project team members, company leadership, customers, regulating agencies, and other key project stakeholders.

Specific responsibilities may include:

Tracking and reporting of capital and revenue projects:

Develop and maintain comprehensive project schedules, incorporating work breakdown structures (WBS) and Gantt charts to monitor progress effectively

Coordinate with project managers to update project milestones and deliverables

Provide regular reports to leadership, highlighting project status, risks, and opportunities for improvement

Project Team and Stakeholder Communications:

Facilitate clear and consistent communication among project teams, vendors, and stakeholders to align objectives and expectations

Ensure that changes to project schedules are communicated promptly, assessing impacts on the critical path and overall project delivery

Financial reporting:

Work closely with the finance team to monitor project budgets, track expenditures, and forecast financial needs

Utilize enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to manage project-related financial data, ensuring accuracy and compliance

Support the development of financial reports that inform decision-making and strategic planning

Project closeout and deliverable acceptance criteria:

Coordinate with engineering and quality assurance teams to define and document deliverable acceptance criteria

Compile and organize project documentation, creating comprehensive records that support knowledge transfer and future project planning

Lead the project closeout process, ensuring that all objectives are met and lessons learned are captured

Competencies:

We are looking for a Project Planner that is:

Experienced in project management within technical or industrial environments

An effective communicator who can articulate priorities and foster alignment across diverse teams

Skilled at maintaining schedules and enforcing routines in a creative and fast-paced culture

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 a modern active voice

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelors in engineering, project management, or related field

5+ years of experience in project planning

Experience with planning on large ($10+ Million) capital projects

Proficiency in MS Project, SmartSheets, or other project management software tools

Bonus Qualifications:

PMP or PMI-SP certification

Familiarity with ERP systems like NetSuite or SAP

Experience with energy infrastructure projects (design, construction, or commissioning)

Experience at startups

Who you are:

A startup person: You aren’t driven by titles or hierarchy, and prefer efficiency to excess process. You enjoy working in a fast-paced team.

Motivated: You are self-motivated and bring enthusiasm to the team, with a balanced view on work-life balance.

A team-player: Oklo genuinely is a team and collaborates for success.

An excellent communicator: Clear and upbeat communicator.

Creative: Able to identify and solve open-ended problems without micromanagement.

Detail-oriented: Emphasizes accuracy in communication and quality of work.

About Oklo compensation:

$70,000 - $110,000

Oklo offers flexible time off, equity, competitive pay, 401k, health insurance, FSA, flexible work hours, and other benefits.

This position may involve access to information subject to U.S. export control laws. Only applicants who meet the definition of a U.S. person under applicable laws may be eligible.

About Oklo Inc.:

Oklo is developing fast fission power plants to deliver clean, reliable, and affordable energy at scale; establishing a domestic supply chain for critical radioisotopes; and advancing nuclear fuel recycling to convert nuclear waste into clean energy.

Oklo was the first to receive a site use permit from the U.S. Department of Energy for a commercial advanced fission plant, was awarded fuel material from Idaho National Laboratory, and submitted the first custom combined license application for an advanced reactor to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Oklo is also developing advanced fuel recycling technologies in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. National Laboratories.

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