Good fit if
- You hold or have held an SRO license or certification.
- You have 10+ years of experience.
- You can travel 50% of the time.
Credentials that matter
Training and certifications
- SRO License
Skills and tools
- NRC Regulations
- Criticality
Required qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in the nuclear industry.
- Demonstrated experience in maintenance scheduling and in a maintenance leadership role.
- Strong understanding of nuclear plant operations and the interfaces among Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Quality, Training, and Supply Chain. developing, implementing, governing, or improving preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs.
- Ability to develop defensible maintenance strategies and technical bases and translate them into executable work requirements. with computerized maintenance management or enterprise asset management systems, asset hierarchies, equipment history, and maintenance master data.
- Strong technical writing, analytical, organizational, and cross-functional communication skills. with equipment reliability, criticality analysis, failure-mode evaluation, corrective action, and operating-experience programs. developing or monitoring maintenance performance measures, including schedule compliance, backlog health, preventive-maintenance completion, rework, and repeat maintenance. with critical-spares strategies, equipment bills of material, component availability, or obsolescence management. developing maintenance procedures, work packages, job plans, checklists, training materials, or worker-feedback processes.
- Familiarity with maintenance rule, quality assurance, or regulatory requirements applicable to nuclear facilities.
- Former or current NRC SRO license or certification.
- Competencies We are looking for a senior maintenance program engineer who is: Comfortable serving as a maintenance program authority and providing clear direction on standards, priorities, and implementation decisions.
About this role
At Oklo, we are building advanced nuclear systems that require disciplined, scalable maintenance programs to support safe, reliable plant performance. We are seeking an experienced senior maintenance program engineer to own and drive the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of fleet maintenance standards across Oklo facilities.
Responsibilities
- Own and implement Oklo's fleet maintenance program framework for preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance.
- Develop equipment maintenance strategies and technical bases using equipment functions, criticality, failure modes, vendor recommendations, engineering information, and operating experience.
- Translate approved strategies into preventive-maintenance tasks, frequencies, acceptance criteria, job plans, procedures, and supporting documentation with clear technical traceability.
- Establish standardized equipment and asset hierarchies, naming conventions, classifications, and maintenance master-data requirements; support configuration and data governance for computerized maintenance management and enterprise asset management systems.
- Develop consistent work-management practices for work identification, screening, planning, scheduling, execution, post-maintenance testing, closeout, equipment history, and backlog management.
- Lead implementation of fleet maintenance standards at Oklo facilities, including asset-data development, maintenance-plan loading, job-plan validation, readiness reviews, and controlled site-specific adaptations.
- Monitor schedule compliance, backlog health, preventive-maintenance completion, repeat maintenance, rework, and equipment reliability; use results, failures, corrective actions, and operating experience to drive improvements.
- Coordinate with Engineering, site teams, vendors, and Supply Chain on equipment bills of material, critical spares, stocking strategies, component availability, and obsolescence concerns.
- Develop and maintain procedures, templates, job aids, training inputs, controlled program records, and equipment history while coordinating fleetwide implementation across Facility Operations and partner organizations.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience standardizing maintenance programs across multiple nuclear facilities or units.
Location, schedule, and travel
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.
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