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Posted 3 weeks agoSenior Manager of Capital Cost Management
at Oklo
Remote
Responsibilities
- Establish cost data governance standards to ensure traceability of budgets, commitments, change orders and actuals.
- Establish structured capture of cost learnings across projects.
- Build and maintain internal and external benchmarking.
- Project Budgeting: Drive development of detailed project budgets ensuring alignment with cost estimates, scope, resources, and timelines.
Requirements
- Vendor and Contractor Cost Transparency: Assess and strengthen owner-side cost control maturity required to enable strategic evolution in vendor contracting structures (e.g.
- experience in capital project budgeting, cost architecture, or project controls leadership within large-scale power, energy, infrastructure, industrial, or nuclear sectors Demonstrated
- experience designing cost breakdown structures and capital cost taxonomies for large capital portfolios (including projects of $100M+)
- Strong knowledge of project cost systems, job costing methodologies, ERP integration, and capital governance frameworks •
- Experience supporting large-scale EPC or construction projects with a strong understanding of owner-side cost control maturity Demonstrated
- experience in portfolio cost optimization, benchmarking, and structured cost learning systems •
- Experience analyzing large datasets to identify cost drivers and structural improvement opportunities
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, construction, procurement, finance, and executive leadership
- Experience with nuclear or other FOAK energy infrastructure projects
- Familiarity with DOE, NRC, EPA, and OSHA environments •
- You bring an enthusiasm to the team, and imbue a sense of passion that goes beyond clocking in and clocking out.
- For the first two weeks of onboarding, employees are required to be in person at headquarters in Santa Clara, CA.
Experience
- Qualifications: 7+ years of
Benefits
- Excellent communication skills, including executive and Board-level reporting Bonus
- 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.
- About Oklo compensation: $185,000-$205,000
- Salary may fall outside of the range provided and will be dependent on applicant experience.
- Oklo offers flexible time off, equity, competitive pay, 401k, health insurance, FSA, flexible work hours, and other benefits.
Contact
- All legitimate communications from our recruiting team— including application updates, interview requests, and job offers — will come exclusively from an @oklo.com email.
Additional details
- Thanks for your interest in Oklo! We are searching for a Senior Manager of Capital Cost Management to join our team.
- We are seeking an experienced and motivated leader to design, implement, and scale Oklo’s capital project budgeting and cost architecture capability across our first-of-a-kind (FOAK) and subsequent fleet (NOAK) nuclear powerhouses, fuel fabrication facilities, recycling complexes, radioisotope production assets, and supporting infrastructure.
- This role will establish the foundational cost structures, standards, and systems that enable cost transparency, disciplined capital allocation, and sustained FOAK-to-NOAK cost curve decline across Oklo’s portfolio of capital projects.
- The successful candidate will own the development, scaling, and direct implementation of standardized cost breakdown structures (CBS), work breakdown structures (WBS), and portfolio-wide capital cost taxonomies to ensure clean, decision-grade cost data across projects and business units.
- This role will also play a key part in strengthening owner-side cost visibility and control maturity to support the evolution of Oklo’s commercial vendor strategies over time.
- This role collaborates closely across Engineering, Product, Construction, Supply Chain, Regulatory, Finance, and Business Development to align cost architecture with scope definition, procurement strategy, and capital deployment planning.
- This role reports to the Director of Project Budgeting and Controls within the Office of the CFO with a strong cross functional relationship to the project deployment capabilities.
- Standards Governance: Ensure consistent application of budgeting standards across projects and business units.
- Partner with project controls teams to ensure actuals, forecasts, and reporting align with defined cost structures and methodologies.
- Cost Curve Development: Develop and institutionalize Oklo’s cost improvement framework.