Senior Facilities Manager

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of experience in facilities, workplace operations, construction management, industrial operations, warehousing, logistics, or a related function.
• Experience supporting a multi-site portfolio that includes laboratories, warehouses, test facilities, light industrial space, or advanced manufacturing.
• Hands-on experience with facility operations, vendors, maintenance, moves, tenant improvements, leases, landlords, and service contracts.
• Experience managing budgets, capital plans, forecasts, and facility or space decisions.
• Ability to establish scalable practices, work across functions, communicate with executives, and operate effectively in changing conditions.
• Ability and willingness to travel among Oklo facilities and prospective locations.
• Experience in nuclear, aerospace, energy, advanced manufacturing, research laboratories, defense, semiconductor, or another regulated or technically complex industry.
• Experience establishing a facilities or site-operations function in a growing organization.
• Familiarity with facilities, work-order, inventory, warehouse-management, enterprise resource planning, or space-planning systems.
• Experience supporting controlled materials or improving receiving, inventory, storage, handling, and shipping processes.
• Relevant credentials in facilities, construction, project management, safety, or supply chain.

A startup person: You aren't driven by titles or hierarchy, and prefer efficiency to excess process. You don't need or expect to have a lot of guidance but you enjoy working in a fast-paced team. If you prefer the culture and feel of a large organization, that is great, but you likely won’t enjoy working with us! There is plenty of important work and plenty of good opportunities with organizations like that.

Motivated: You are self-motivated. You bring an enthusiasm to the team, and imbue a sense of passion that goes beyond clocking in and clocking out. This isn’t about a fake or arbitrary “pieces of flair” mentality or lack of work-life balance! It is about being a part of the vision and feeling a part of reaching team goals.

A team-player: Oklo genuinely is a team. We aren’t about taking credit for ourselves, and we aren’t about pushing blame to others. We do incredible things because we work as a team.

An excellent communicator: We need a person who is not only technically competent but also a clear and upbeat communicator.

Creative: Being creative means that when things fall outside clear scopes or processes or problems arise without clear solutions, you are able to identify it as well as invent ways to solve a problem or fill a need without micromanagement. The successful person in this job will not only be creative, but also enjoy being creative and solving open-ended problems which may change day-by-day.

Detail-oriented: This focus is a big part of excellence, consistency, and quality. Excellent grammar and spelling matter for both good communication as well as the image of the company that we put forward.

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. For the first two weeks of onboarding, employees are required to be in person at headquarters in Santa Clara, CA.

• We are looking for a Senior Facilities Manager who is:
• A hands-on owner who can manage the full portfolio while solving practical site problems
• A builder of simple systems and standards that can scale without creating unnecessary process.
• Comfortable moving between facility strategy, lease and vendor discussions, project execution, and day-to-day operations.
• Commercially astute and able to evaluate costs, negotiate agreements, and make sound recommendations.
• Passionate about making advanced fission a reality
• Willing and able to learn quickly
• Willing to think differently and do things in new ways
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, highly iterative startup environment
• Excited to think creatively, critically, and reflectively about the problems they are solving while not leaning only on what has been done before
• Willing to propose novel and creative solutions to technical problems
• An excellent writer who can write in a modern active voice, so make your cover letter compelling and write it well!
• Able to communicate technical content and results verbally