Permitting Manager

The role

The Permitting Manager will own the end-to-end state and local permitting process for reactor transportation and deployment. This role involves preparing and filing permit applications and coordinating with various internal and external teams to secure permits for Kaleidos deployment.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end state and local permitting process for reactor transportation and deployment
• Manage relationships with contractors and consultants
• Interface with regulatory affairs, engineering, legal, and operations teams
• Interface with the community engagement team
• Work directly with customers' permitting teams
• Support state and federal policy teams with on-the-ground information
• Track permit status and requirements across deployment sites
• Build repeatable permitting processes and playbooks
• Maintain working knowledge of local and state permitting requirements
• Support site selection efforts with permitting feasibility input

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing permitting processes for industrial, energy, infrastructure, or other highly regulated facility projects
• Proven experience managing contractors and/or consultants through a permitting or entitlement process
• Strong understanding of local and state permitting environments (zoning, siting, environmental review, construction permits)
• Able to define State and Local permitting requirements independently
• Clear communicator
• Must work 100% onsite in either Washington, D.C. or El Segundo, CA

Nice to have

• Experience with permitting for energy generation assets (nuclear, or other power generation)
• Experience with permitting on military installations
• Experience with oversize load transportation across state boundaries
• Familiarity with the regulatory/licensing process that precedes permitting (NRC licensing, state PUC processes)
• Experience supporting first-of-a-kind or novel infrastructure deployments

Benefits

• Substantial incentive stock plan for all full-time employees
• Medical: 100% up to base silver level plan for employee + 50% dependents, offers up to Platinum plans
• One Medical: Sponsored memberships for employees and their dependents
• Vision: 100% top tier plan coverage + 50% for dependents
• Dental: 100% top tier plan coverage, orthodontia extra, 50% for dependents
• Voluntary life, accident, hospital, critical illness, commuter and FSA/HSA are offered as employee contributed benefits
• 8-weeks of paid parental leave for all parents
• Additional paid pregnancy leave for CA employees
• Nuclear Engineering Certificate Program: 100% covered educational program with Penn State University for eligible employees
• Daily catered lunch
• Free snacks and drinks
• Flexible PTO policy

Before you apply

• Any job offer made will be contingent upon the applicant's capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls

About the company

Radiant is an El Segundo, CA-based company building the world's only mass-produced, transportable nuclear microreactors. Founded in 2020, Radiant is under contract to deliver power to the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force.