Senior Maintenance Program Engineer

Thanks for your interest in Oklo! We are searching for a senior maintenance program engineer to join our engineering team. Position Description At Oklo, we are building advanced nuclear systems that require disciplined, scalable maintenance programs to support safe, reliable plant performance. We are seeking an experienced senior maintenance program engineer to own and drive the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of fleet maintenance standards across Oklo facilities. The engineer will establish maintenance requirements, technical bases, work-management practices, and system data that can be applied consistently while accommodating justified site-specific needs. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of Facility Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, Supply Chain, Training, Quality, and digital systems. You will provide maintenance program leadership, translate approved strategies into executable work, and use equipment performance and operating experience to improve the program over time. Specific responsibilities may include: Own and implement Oklo's fleet maintenance program framework for preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance. Develop equipment maintenance strategies and technical bases using equipment functions, criticality, failure modes, vendor recommendations, engineering information, and operating experience. Translate approved strategies into preventive-maintenance tasks, frequencies, acceptance criteria, job plans, procedures, and supporting documentation with clear technical traceability. Establish standardized equipment and asset hierarchies, naming conventions, classifications, and maintenance master-data requirements; support configuration and data governance for computerized maintenance management and enterprise asset management systems. Develop consistent work-management practices for work identification, screening, planning, scheduling, execution, post-maintenance testing, closeout, equipment history, and backlog management. Lead implementation of fleet maintenance standards at Oklo facilities, including asset-data development, maintenance-plan loading, job-plan validation, readiness reviews, and controlled site-specific adaptations. Monitor schedule compliance, backlog health, preventive-maintenance completion, repeat maintenance, rework, and equipment reliability; use results, failures, corrective actions, and operating experience to drive improvements. Coordinate with Engineering, site teams, vendors, and Supply Chain on equipment bills of material, critical spares, stocking strategies, component availability, and obsolescence concerns. Develop and maintain procedures, templates, job aids, training inputs, controlled program records, and equipment history while coordinating fleetwide implementation across Facility Operations and partner organizations. Minimum Qualifications: 10+ years of experience in the nuclear industry. Demonstrated experience in maintenance scheduling and in a maintenance leadership role. Strong understanding of nuclear plant operations and the interfaces among Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Quality, Training, and Supply Chain. Experience developing, implementing, governing, or improving preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs. Ability to develop defensible maintenance strategies and technical bases and translate them into executable work requirements. Experience with computerized maintenance management or enterprise asset management systems, asset hierarchies, equipment history, and maintenance master data. Strong technical writing, analytical, organizational, and cross-functional communication skills. Bonus Qualifications: Experience standardizing maintenance programs across multiple nuclear facilities or units. Experience with equipment reliability, criticality analysis, failure-mode evaluation, corrective action, and operating-experience programs. Experience developing or monitoring maintenance performance measures, including schedule compliance, backlog health, preventive-maintenance completion, rework, and repeat maintenance. Experience with critical-spares strategies, equipment bills of material, component availability, or obsolescence management. Experience developing maintenance procedures, work packages, job plans, checklists, training materials, or worker-feedback processes. Familiarity with maintenance rule, quality assurance, or regulatory requirements applicable to nuclear facilities. Former or current NRC SRO license or certification. Competencies We are looking for a senior maintenance program engineer who is: Comfortable serving as a maintenance program authority and providing clear direction on standards, priorities, and implementation decisions. Able to balance fleet standardization with justified site-specific needs while maintaining technical rigor and change control. Experienced in maintenance planning and scheduling and able to connect program requirements to practical work execution. Analytical and able to turn equipment performance, work history, failures, and operating experience into focused program improvements. A systems thinker who can build processes, data structures, and governance that scale across facilities. An effective cross-functional leader who can work with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, Training, and vendors. A strong communicator who can translate complex maintenance requirements into clear procedures, technical bases, and actionable guidance. Detail-oriented, organized, and focused on equipment reliability, traceability, and effective maintenance execution. Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, highly iterative environment where priorities may evolve quickly. Able to work independently remotely and travel up to 50% of the time. Who you are: A startup person : You aren't driven by titles or hierarchy, and prefer effic