Key skills
Rotating equipment designOperations of rotating equipmentMechanical engineering degreeTurbomachinery development
About this role
Oklo is developing fast fission power plants to deliver clean, reliable, and affordable energy at scale. They are seeking an experienced Turbomachinery Engineer to be responsible for the design, procurement, and operation of rotating equipment in their power plants.
Responsibilities:
- Define equipment requirements and specifications for commercial off-the-shelf and custom-designed rotating equipment, including pumps, compressors, and turbines
- Identify key performance metrics and develop verification test plans for new equipment
- Work in cross disciplinary teams, including process engineering, instrumentation and control, power generation and distribution teams, and operations to integrate equipment into power plants and test facilities
- Work with external vendors on equipment analysis, design, procurement, and testing to ensure rotating equipment meet plant requirements
- Develop and document operations and maintenance plans for rotating equipment in the power plant
- Generate technical documentation to be included in regulatory filings and internal technical reports
- Become the responsible engineer for the development of a rotating equipment system
Requirements:
- A bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or related engineering discipline
- At least 5 years of experience in the design, operations, or maintenance of rotating equipment used in the power generation, petroleum, chemical, or other similar industries
- Broad familiarity with engineering principles, and having strong systems engineering and operations intuition
- Experienced with operations and maintenance of rotating equipment, such as centrifugal pumps, gas compressors, and/or steam turbines, in power generation or similar industrial settings
- Experienced with specifying, designing, and procuring rotating equipment for new capital projects
- 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
- Able to communicate technical content and results verbally
- Experience with first-of-kind turbomachinery development and testing
- Experience with developing operational plans for rotating equipment in a plant-like setting
- Experience with operating and/or generating design specifications for industrial steam turbines