About Aalo Atomics

Aalo Atomics is pioneering a new era in clean energy with factory-fabricated microreactors designed to deliver affordable, scalable, and reliable nuclear power. Our mission is to make nuclear energy globally accessible, starting with the Aalo-1, a 10 MWe reactor leveraging cutting-edge safety, modularity, and efficiency. Based in Austin, TX, we’re rapidly growing as we work to deploy the world’s first fleet of advanced microreactors. Join us and help revolutionize energy for a sustainable future.

About the role

You will own the end‑to‑end program that selects, trains, qualifies, certifies, and re‑qualifies all personnel who can affect the facility safety basis—operators, supervisors, maintenance, and technical staff. You’ll lead a Systematic Approach to Training (SAT) program tied to facility hazards, ensuring our training and qualification system is integrated with the safety basis, change control, and disciplined operations.

What you'll do

Program ownership & governance

• Own the nuclear facility training and qualification program using SAT.
• Author, own, and maintain the Training Implementation Document (TID/TIM/TPD), mapping applicable requirements, implementation methods, and justified exceptions.
• Keep training bases synchronized with procedure changes via formal change control.
• Build and maintain training matrices (initial, continuing, requalification) for operations, maintenance, and technical staff.

Compliance & disciplined operations

• Deliver Conduct of Operations training and maintain the site Conduct of Operations matrix; ensure line organizations, procedures, and shift practices reflect disciplined operations.
• Ensure regulatory training compliance, including required radiation worker training/refreshers, emergency management participation, and any clearance‑related instructional requirements as applicable.
• Align the training program with applicable Quality Assurance requirements for personnel training and qualification.

Certification, evaluation & records

• Plan and run certification boards, JPMs, OJT, simulator and abnormal drills; enforce direct supervision rules for trainees.
• Manage required reading, continuing training, and re‑qualification cycles.
• Develop, administer, and analyze written exams and performance assessments; trend results and implement corrective actions.
• Maintain accurate training records and evidence packages suitable for audits, readiness reviews, and independent oversight.

Interfaces, readiness & oversight

• Interface with the Field Element/Safety Basis Approval Authority during program reviews, assessments, and operator certification/recertification oversight.
• Prepare for readiness reviews and restarts, demonstrating that training and qualifications are fully effective inputs to startup/restart decisions.
• Support independent oversight and external assessments; track and close training‑related findings.

Tools, metrics & continuous improvement

• Define and publish program KPIs (e.g., certification throughput, JPM pass rates, re‑qual compliance, corrective action closure) and drive improvements.
• Develop the annual training plan and forecast/budget for instructors, facilities, and tools.

Qualifications

Required

• 5+ years in nuclear or high‑hazard industrial operations training, including SAT program ownership and integration with safety basis.
• Demonstrated experience authoring and maintaining a TID/TIM/TPD and training matrices across operations, maintenance, and technical roles.
• Hands‑on experience with Conduct of Operations training; procedure use & adherence practices; and exam/JPM/OJT development.
• Familiarity with DOE emergency management training/participation requirements.
• Experience preparing for and supporting readiness reviews and independent oversight evaluations related to training and qualifications.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross‑functional leadership; effective interface with line organizations and DOE Field Element representatives.

Preferred

• Prior Nuclear Navy experience.
• Experience with plant startup/restart training programs, simulator scenario development, and abnormal/off‑normal drill design.
• Experience with human performance tools, causal analysis methods, and training effectiveness metrics.

Physical (if relevant)

• Ability to tour industrial/nuclear facility areas, don required PPE, support occasional off‑hours drills or shift‑based training, and stand for extended training sessions; ability to handle training materials/equipment up to 25 lbs.