The opportunity
Thanks for your interest in Oklo! We are searching for an Operations Engineering Lead to join our engineering team.
What you'll do
Lead development and configuration control of the facility concept of: operations, including normal operation, startup, shutdown, standby, maintenance, upset, degraded, and emergency operating modes.
Translate operational, safety, security, safeguards, material control and: accountability, and regulatory needs into traceable design requirements, operating philosophies, system boundaries, operating sequences, preliminary operating limits, and acceptance criteria, in coordination with the responsible functional owners.
Represent operations throughout facility and system design to ensure: equipment and systems are safe, secure, operable, maintainable, accessible, testable, and suitable for remote and radiological environments.
Complete documented operability, maintainability, accessibility,: remote-handling, operator-task, human-factors, and failure-recovery reviews, with identified actions assigned and tracked through disposition.
Review PFDs, P&IDs, equipment specifications, layouts, control narratives,: alarm strategies, human-machine interfaces, system descriptions, and safety-related design inputs from an operations perspective.
Lead development of preliminary staffing, procedure, training, maintenance,: commissioning, startup, facility-turnover, and production-ramp-up plans with defined interfaces, milestones, responsibilities, and acceptance criteria.
What they're looking for
- Establish requirements for system turnover, walkdowns, pre-operational: testing, cold commissioning, integrated testing, initial material introduction, and operational-readiness reviews.
- Participate in design reviews, hazard analyses, safety reviews, human-factors: evaluations, maintainability reviews, readiness reviews, configuration management, and management-of-change activities.
- Coordinate with maintenance and reliability teams to define equipment: criticality, preventive maintenance, spare parts, vendor support, work controls, and asset-management needs.
- Build and lead the operations engineering organization as the project: matures, while communicating readiness status, risks, decisions, and unresolved design actions to project and technical leadership.
