Responsibilities
- Ensure uniform budgeting practices are applied across all projects and business units by collaborating with project controls to align actual spending, forecasts, and reporting with established cost models.
- Define and enforce data governance standards for cost tracking, ensuring full traceability of budgets, commitments, change orders, and actual expenditures.
- Create and embed a structured cost improvement framework across the organization to support long-term cost reduction goals.
- Implement systematic processes for capturing cost-related lessons learned from completed and ongoing projects.
- Develop and maintain both internal and external cost benchmarks to inform project planning and performance evaluation.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate cost improvements into future project budgets and capital planning, supporting the transition from first-of-a-kind to nth-of-a-kind cost efficiency.
- Define standardized methodologies, cost breakdown structures, and work breakdown structures for detailed project budget development.
- Lead the creation of comprehensive project budgets that align with cost estimates, project scope, resource plans, and schedules.
- Evaluate and enhance the maturity of owner-side cost control capabilities to support evolving vendor contract models, including time-and-materials and firm-fixed-price agreements.
- Work with legal, procurement, and deployment teams to ensure cost management practices are aligned with contracting strategies.
- Define and execute system integration requirements for financial planning and reporting tools, ensuring seamless connectivity with project management and ERP platforms.
Compensation
Salary may vary beyond the stated range and is based on candidate experience. Offers include flexible time off, equity, competitive pay, 401k, health insurance, FSA, flexible work hours, and additional benefits.
Work Arrangement
Hybrid — Santa Clara, CA
Team
Reports to: Director of Project Budgeting and Controls within the Office of the CFO
About Oklo Inc.
The company is advancing fast fission power plants to deliver clean, reliable, and affordable energy at scale. It is building a domestic supply chain for critical radioisotopes and pioneering nuclear fuel recycling to transform nuclear waste into clean energy. It was the first to secure a site use permit from the U.S. Department of Energy for a commercial advanced fission plant, received fuel material from Idaho National Laboratory, and filed the first custom combined license application for an advanced reactor with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. It also collaborates with the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. National Laboratories on advanced fuel recycling technologies.
#CHOP: Oklo’s Values
Collaboration: We go further, together. We bring diverse perspectives, listen actively, and build trust through transparency and respect. We work across disciplines, sharing ownership to turn complex challenges into shared successes. Humility: We are team players who act for the good of the company and for the world. We are focused on our mission, not personal recognition. Ownership: We take pride in what we do and how we do it. We are proactive in finding solutions and see tasks through to completion. We are committed to delivering on our promises to provide clean, reliable, and affordable energy. Pathfinding: We chart new ground where no path exists by approaching challenges with curiosity, courage, and creativity while navigating ambiguity.
Other
- Remote employees must travel to headquarters in Santa Clara, CA, twice per quarter based on business or team needs, including for team meetings, off-sites, and company events.
- New hires must be present in person at the Santa Clara, CA headquarters for the first two weeks of onboarding.
