Fuel Handling Project Engineer

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

Position Description

As a Fuel Handling Project Engineer on Oklo’s Refueling Team, you’ll own the design and fabrication oversight of our advanced reactor fuel handling system. Your focus will be on building strong supplier partnerships and ensuring vendors deliver high-quality hardware that meets technical, cost, and schedule requirements. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams across engineering, manufacturing, and operations, playing a key role in bringing the Aurora plant from design to reality.

Specific responsibilities may include:

Partner with Team Lead, Engineers, and Procurement to develop technical specifications, statements of work and drawing packages detailing the requirements for Refueling Equipment to establish external packages for suppliers and vendors.

Function in a rapidly growing team to support vendor deliverables that align with overall project budget and schedule.

Manage vendor design development to meet plant requirements while in compliance with codes, standards and regulations per the contract.

Perform technical review of design documents and drawings including Process & Instrumentation Diagrams, Technical Specifications, analysis, and calculations.

Work with vendors during manufacturing to execute deviation requests and report non-conformance reports to a high-level of detail with impacts assessed and potential resolutions identified.

Support document preparation (installation procedures, system description documents, design reviews).

Prepare and give presentations and status updates of technical scope and progress.

Foreign and domestic travel to fabricators and support subcontractor’s facilities is required (<50%)

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Civil Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.

3-5 years of relevant technical and/or project management experience with the design and manufacturing of complex structures and integrated systems.

Demonstrated ability to collaborate on cross-functional teams, integrating feedback from analysis, manufacturing, and systems engineering

Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly document and present engineering work

Comfortable working with external manufacturers and engineering consultants for fabrication and analysis support

Experience setting and achieving project goals, utilizing project management tools to support execution of project scope

Experience managing design-build and build to print contracts.

Familiarity with design and fabrication drawings.

Bonus Qualifications :

Experience designing large structural weldments and mechanical joints

Background in designing and engineering components for high-integrity or safety-critical systems (e.g., nuclear, aerospace, defense, or heavy industry)