Electrical Engineer – Aurora-INL

The posting, as Oklo wrote it

Thanks for your interest in Oklo! We are searching for an experience Electrical Engineer to join our engineering team and support delivery of the Aurora powerhouse at Idaho National Laboratory.

Position Description

The Electrical Engineer will serve as a key owner-side technical lead, coordinating electrical design and execution across Oklo teams, EPC partners, equipment vendors, and construction.

This role is focused on delivering complete, coordinated, and constructible electrical systems, not designing in isolation. The successful candidate will take ownership of electrical scope, resolve interfaces and design inputs, review EPC and vendor deliverables, and drive issues to closure in support of procurement, construction, commissioning, and plant operation.

The successful candidate must be comfortable joining an active project where major design and procurement decisions may already be established and developing practical, technically sound solutions within those constraints.

Specific responsibilities may include

• Provide owner-side technical leadership for Aurora-INL electrical systems, including:
• Own electrical scope from design development through procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and turnover.
• Coordinate electrical work performed by EPC partners and equipment vendors, ensuring responsibilities and interfaces are clearly defined.
• Establish, review, and maintain electrical design criteria, requirements, calculations, specifications, drawings, and equipment data.
• Review electrical studies, including load flow, short-circuit, protective-device coordination, arc-flash, grounding, and other applicable analyses.
• Verify that electrical requirements and design inputs are consistently incorporated across drawings, specifications, studies, vendor packages, and construction documents.
• Lead resolution of technical questions, RFIs, design changes, nonconformances, and field issues.
• Support equipment procurement by developing technical requirements, reviewing vendor proposals and submittals, and resolving vendor interfaces.
• Work closely with project management and scheduling teams to identify priorities, dependencies, risks, and decisions affecting delivery.
• Work effectively in a progressive design-build environment where engineering, procurement, and construction activities overlap.
• Support constructability reviews, installation planning, inspections, testing, commissioning, and operations.
• Promote practical, solutions-oriented collaboration while maintaining safety, quality, and technical rigor.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited program.
• Eight or more years of progressively responsible electrical engineering experience, including significant experience with power-generation electrical systems.
• Experience with facility power distribution, emergency power, grounding, electrical equipment, and electrical studies.
• Experience revie

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