Senior Process Controls Engineer

Thanks for your interest in Oklo!  We are searching for a Senior Process Controls Engineer for our recycling engineering team.

Position Description:

The person in this role will be responsible for designing, implementing, troubleshooting, scaling, and monitoring various process control systems for the Oklo fuel recycling facility. Some subsystems may include off-gas separation, and waste immobilization. It will include collaboration with cross-functional teams including those with a focus on facility design, unit process equipment design, and licensing.

This position could alternatively be fulfilled by someone with experience and/or education in instrumentation and controls, electrical, chemical, or process engineering.

Specific responsibilities may include:

• Develop systems that meet facility and regulatory requirements
• Develop and document overall control philosophy – define key control variables, setpoints, and rationale to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient process operations
• Prepare and review control system documentation – including instrument loop drawings, logic drawings, cause-and-effect matrices, and interlock schemes
• Define and manage control and alarm strategies – establish alarm priorities, setpoints, and functional descriptions to support operator awareness and system safety
• Design and specify control system architecture – covering hardware, software, and network requirements for distributed control systems (DCS), programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and human-machine interface (HMI) applications
• Generate technical documentation to be included in regulatory filings

 

Competencies:

We are looking for a Senior Process Controls Engineer that is:

• Motivated by building, and getting technology deployed
• Energized by tackling and overcoming challenges
• Passionate about clean energy, and 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
• Able to communicate technical content and results verbally
• An excellent writer who can write in a modern active voice, so make your cover letter compelling and write it well!

 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Degree in Chemical or Electrical Engineering or similar
• 10+ years of experience in process controls engineering or similar field

 

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