Licensing Manager

Oklo Inc; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible time off

Equity options

Health insurance

Job summary

A leading renewable energy firm is seeking a Licensing Manager to support engineering development for nuclear regulatory compliance. You will prepare and maintain licensing documentation, coordinate with engineers and regulators, and contribute to strategic licensing decisions. The ideal candidate has an engineering degree and experience in nuclear regulations. This role includes flexible benefits and requires some travel to headquarters for meetings.

Qualifications

• Experience in nuclear regulations and licensing processes.
• Ability to manage complex projects with various stakeholders.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and review licensing documents for compliance.
• Coordinate with design engineers and the nuclear regulator.
• Defend licensing positions in regulatory frameworks.

Skills

Nuclear regulatory knowledge

Project management

Excellent communication

Team collaboration

Creative problem-solving

Education

BS in engineering

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Position Description

A Licensing Manager at Oklo is expected to apply nuclear regulatory knowledge and experience to support engineering development towards meeting licensing requirements. The Licensing Manager will work closely with design engineers, with responsibility for understanding, interpreting, and informing our design basis as needed to comply with U.S. nuclear regulations. The Licensing Manager will help develop documentation to support licensing associated with both pre-application activities and license application submittal and review.

Specific responsibilities

Responsibilities will differ depending on your background:

• Prepare, review, and maintain licensing document content, programs, and supporting licensing related products and activities for Oklo's reactor technologies.
• Plan, organize, and perform complex assignments in a team environment.
• Support project management of licensing activities and deliverables, including the submittal of licensing documents and associated schedules, milestones, etc.
• Support development of engineering and licensing requirements and documentation for nuclear systems and components in an interactive manner with other engineering functional areas.
• Coordinate and interface with design engineers, including the review of technical materials, to ensure new designs and design changes meet regulatory requirements.
• Coordinate and interface with the nuclear regulator, both from a regulatory and planning perspective.
• Prepare and defend Oklo's licensing positions for areas where the existing regulatory framework either does not apply, or for which there is need for the development of new or revised regulatory requirements or guidance.
• Prepare and deliver licensing presentations to internal and external organizations.
• Lead resolution of key strategic licensing issues.

Competencies

• Passionate about clean energy, the environment, and making advanced fission a reality
• Willing and able to learn quickly and to think differently in a highly regulated industry
• Knowledge of 10 CFR 50 and 10 CFR 52, along with NRC Regulatory Guides and other regulatory guidance
• Ability to manage and coordinate complex projects with a variety of stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to communicate highly technical content verbally
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, highly iterative startup environment
• Eager to work on a dynamic team, receive constructive feedback, and grow with us
• Flexible and open to new ideas; ability to work with a highly collaborative team
• Ability to translate strategic regulatory decisions into licensing deliverables
• Ability to handle projects that include many competing objectives and design constraints, with ability to resolve conflicts between objectives

Minimum Qualifications

We also think the following are good indicators of qualifications to do this job:

• BS in engineering from an accredited college or university, experience may qualify
• Demonstrated coordination skills; ability to earn the trust of team members and management
• Proven team player with excellent verbal, written communication/presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office

Who you are

A startup person: You aren't driven by titles or hierarchy, and prefer efficiency to excess process. You don't need or expect to have a lot of guidance but you enjoy working in a fast-paced team. If you prefer the culture and feel of a large organization, that is great, but you likely won’t enjoy working with us! There is plenty of important work and plenty of good opportunities with organizations like that.

• Motivated: You are self-motivated. You bring an enthusiasm to the team, and imbue a sense of passion that goes beyond clocking in and clocking out. This isn’t about a fake or arbitrary “pieces of flair” mentality or lack of work-life balance! It is about being a part of the vision and feeling a part of reaching team goals.
• A team-player: Oklo genuinely is a team. We aren’t about taking credit for ourselves, and we aren’t about pushing blame to others. We do incredible things because we work as a team.
• An excellent communicator: We need a person who is not only technically competent but also a clear and upbeat communicator.
• Creative: Being creative means that when things fall outside clear scopes or processes or problems arise without clear solutions, you are able to identify it as well as invent ways to solve a problem or fill a need without micromanagement. The successful person in this job will not only be creative, but also enjoy being creative and solving open-ended problems which may change day-by-day.
• Detail-oriented: This focus is a big part of excellence, consistency, and quality. Excellent grammar and spelling matter for both good communication as well as the image of the company that we put forward.

Travel and compensation

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.

Salary may fall outside of the range provided and will be dependent on applicant experience.

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

About Oklo Inc.

Oklo Inc. 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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Export Control and Compliance

The questions in this section are for the sole purpose of ensuring compliance with U.S. regulations concerning the export of controlled or protected technologies or information, including 10 CFR Part 810 and 15 CFR Parts 730-774. Oklo is required to obtain answers to these questions from job applicants to ensure Oklo's compliance with these export regulations. If you are a U.S. Person, the export control regulations will not limit the technical information that Oklo can share with you after you start work. If you are not a U.S. Person, the export control regulations may restrict the technical information to which we can give you access until and unless Oklo acquires an export authorization or license from the US government. If you are offered a position, it will be dependent on Oklo being able to satisfy all of the applicable export control requirements for your position, including acquiring any necessary export authorizations or licenses from the US government.

Please identify yourself as one of the following A, B, or C as described below: *

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A . U.S. Person, which is defined for export control purposes as either:

• a U.S. national (one born in American Samoa or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands)
• a U.S. lawful permanent resident (commonly referred to as a “green card holder”), or
• a protected person under the Immigration and Nationality Act (such as an individual who the U.S. government has granted asylum or refugee status)

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B . Not a U.S. Person, as defined above, affiliation as a citizen, national, or permanent resident of only countries listed in List I below. This list is derived from 10 CFR Part 810, Appendix A. Because the U.S. government can change this list at any time, please view regulations via the linked Appendix A rather than the list here.

List I

Australia

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Greece

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Brazil

Indonesia

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Bulgaria

Ireland

Slovenia

Canada

Italy

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Japan

Spain

Croatia

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Sweden

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Luxembourg

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Malta

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United Kingdom

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Netherlands

Vietnam

France

Norway

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C. Not a U.S. Person, as defined in A above, and not a citizen, national, or permanent resident of List I in B, above.

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Oklo requires employees to travel twice a quarter annually to either headquarters or another designated location based on team/company needs or events. Are you willing/able to travel twice a quarter annually?