Facility Compliance Lead

The posting, as Oklo wrote it

Thanks for your interest in Oklo! We are searching for a Facility Compliance Lead to join our team.

Position Description

The Facility Compliance Lead is responsible for establishing and maintaining the infrastructure, programs, and processes necessary to demonstrate compliance across DOE and NRC regulated facilities. This role will work cross-functionally with engineering, operations, licensing, and quality teams to ensure that regulatory commitments are translated into executable programs and verifiable compliance artifacts.

This position is central to enabling safe, compliant, and scalable deployment of advanced nuclear facilities. The Facility Compliance Lead will drive the development of administrative and operational programs, ensure reporting readiness, and build systems that allow the organization to demonstrate compliance in a clear, efficient, and auditable manner.

Specific work areas will vary depending on experience, background, and program maturity.

Specific responsibilities may include

Responsibilities will differ depending on your background

• Develop and implement the compliance infrastructure needed to support DOE and NRC licensed facilities, including programmatic frameworks, procedures, and reporting systems
• Stand up and mature administrative and operational programs (e.g., configuration management, corrective action, records management, reporting, and quality assurance interfaces)
• Translate regulatory requirements, license conditions, and commitments into actionable facility-level programs and processes
• Establish processes and tools to ensure compliance can be consistently demonstrated through documentation, metrics, and auditable records
• Lead development of compliance reporting strategies, including routine, event-based, and regulatory-required reporting
• Coordinate across engineering, operations, and licensing teams to ensure design and operational activities align with regulatory and programmatic requirements
• Develop and maintain compliance matrices, commitment tracking systems, and program health indicators
• Support internal and external audits, inspections, and assessments, including preparation, response, and corrective action tracking
• Interface with regulators (DOE and NRC) on programmatic and compliance-related topics, including inspections and requests for information
• Identify gaps, risks, and opportunities for improvement in compliance programs and drive resolution
• Support development of scalable compliance approaches aligned with advanced reactor deployment strategies

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, or related technical field, or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated experience with DOE and/or NRC regulatory frameworks (e.g., 10 CFR 50, 52, 70, 830, DOE Orders)
• Experience developing, implementing, or overseeing administrative or operational programs in a nuclear or highly regulated environment
• Experience supporting or leading audit

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