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Aalo Atomics is pioneering factory-fabricated microreactors to deliver affordable, scalable, and reliable nuclear power globally. The company is based in Austin, TX and working to deploy the world's first fleet of advanced microreactors, starting with the Aalo-1, a 10 MWe reactor.
The Plant Operations Director leads integrated operational execution and readiness for CTR, Aalo-0, and Aalo-X facilities in Idaho Falls. This role reports to the Senior Vice President of Nuclear Operations and is responsible for building the operating organization, establishing professional nuclear standards, and integrating commissioning and startup with operations. The director ensures each facility progresses only when objective evidence demonstrates readiness.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading facility operations, commissioning/startup execution, operational readiness, conduct of operations, work control, maintenance interfaces, operator training, and operating-procedure implementation across multiple facilities
- Building and staffing the Aalo-X operating organization with qualified Shift Managers, Senior Reactor Operators, operators, and support personnel
- Establishing and enforcing standards for procedure use, command and control, equipment status control, tagging/clearance, logkeeping, turnover, briefings, reactivity management, and conservative decision-making
- Integrating construction completion, system turnover, acceptance testing, startup testing, and configuration status into a single readiness process
- Recommending graded progression through approved test and operating phases only after prerequisites are complete and objective evidence supports the decision
- Developing personnel through structured selection, qualification, observation, coaching, and documented performance evaluation
- Ensuring operating issues, assessment findings, corrective actions, and effectiveness reviews are documented, owned, scheduled, and closed with rigor
- Partnering with Engineering while preserving clear decision rights: Operations owns execution and readiness; Engineering owns design authority
- Providing clear status, risk, decisions, resource needs, and recovery plans to executive leadership
- Exercising stop-work authority whenever safety, authorization, configuration, qualification, or readiness is inadequate
The role expects leadership by example, presence on the plant floor, and valuing the team. This is an opportunity to be a major factor in the company's success and contribute to building an organization leading to commercial fleet operations.
