Emergency Management Lead

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

The Emergency Management Lead establishes and maintains Aalo's emergency management program for CTR, Aalo-0, Aalo-X, and associated Idaho Falls activities. The Lead ensures credible events are identified, response plans and procedures are executable, personnel are trained and drilled, facilities and equipment are ready, and interfaces with Idaho National Laboratory and MFC response organizations are clearly defined. This role reports to the ES&H Director and has direct access to the Plant Operations Director and facility authority for urgent readiness or response concerns.

What You'll Do

• Develop, implement, and maintain the emergency management program, emergency plan, implementing procedures, hazards assessments, emergency action levels, and response organization for Idaho Falls activities. Programs must meet DOE requirements.
• Define command, control, notifications, classifications, protective actions, accountability, medical response, radiological response, fire response, security interfaces, recovery, and reentry responsibilities.
• Establish formal response and communication interfaces with MFC, Idaho National Laboratory, DOE, local emergency services, hospitals, law enforcement, and other off-site organizations as applicable.
• Internally recruit, train, qualify, drill, and maintain an Emergency Response Organization with sufficient depth for shifts, absences, construction, testing, startup, and sustained operations.
• Plan and conduct drills and exercises that test realistic radiological, sodium, fire, industrial, medical, security, natural-phenomena, and loss-of-infrastructure events; document performance and corrective actions.
• Maintain emergency facilities, communications, alarms, accountability systems, protective equipment, supplies, maps, callout rosters, and response equipment in a ready and tested condition.
• Integrate emergency preparedness requirements into facility design, modifications, work planning, operating procedures, training, commissioning, and readiness reviews.
• Establish drill and response performance indicators, conduct self-assessments and management observations, and ensure deficiencies are entered into the corrective action program and effectively closed.
• Provide technical and programmatic support during actual emergencies, including classification, notifications, protective-action recommendations, consequence assessment, public information coordination, and recovery planning.
• Stop or delay operations or testing when emergency response capability, required staffing, equipment, communications, or external support arrangements are not adequate for the planned activity.
  
  

Qualifications

• Five or more years of progressively responsible emergency management, nuclear operations, radiological protection, fire protection, security, or high-hazard emergency response experience.
• Two or more years leading an emergency preparedness program or significant portion of an Emergency Response Organization at a commercial nuclear power plant, DOE nuclear facility, national laboratory, or comparable high-hazard site.
• Demonstrated knowledge of emergency planning hazards assessments, classifications, action levels, notifications, protective actions, drills and exercises, consequence assessment, recovery, and program assessment.
• Experience coordinating with DOE, national laboratories, state and local agencies, fire and medical services, law enforcement, and off-site response organizations.
• Working knowledge of radiological events, sodium hazards, industrial accidents, fires, natural phenomena, security events, and continuity-of-operations challenges preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to lead under pressure, make conservative decisions with incomplete information, and communicate clearly with responders, leadership, regulators, and outside agencies.
• Relevant professional certification or qualification, such as Certified Emergency Manager, emergency director, radiological emergency coordinator, or incident command qualification, preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in emergency management, health physics, engineering, physical science, public safety, or a related field preferred; substantial directly applicable experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree.
  
  

Requirements:

• Based in the United States
• Willing to work on-site in Idaho Falls, Idaho
• Available for emergency callout, drills, critical tests, nights, weekends, and rotating on-call coverage
• Able to obtain and maintain required site access, response qualifications, medical/fitness status, and information-access authorization
  
  

What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Health, Dental, Vision Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Corporate Gym Membership
  
  

Additional Information

Aalo Atomics provides a collaborative and supportive work environment, opportunities for professional growth, intellectually challenging careers, and competitive compensation. Aalo Atomics is an equal opportunity employer and considers all employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Applicants must be U.S. Citizens or U.S. Persons in compliance with 10 CFR Part 810 and may not hold non-compliant foreign citizenships.

Direct applicants only. No recruiters or staffing agencies, please.