Permitting Manager

About the Role

Radiant is seeking a Permitting Manager to own the final, on-the-ground step for operating an advanced microreactor: securing the state and local permits required to deploy Kaleidos at customer sites. This role is highly hands-on and execution-focused, translating policy and licensing groundwork into permits in hand. You will prepare and file permit applications, and coordinating tightly with the teams that make deployment possible.

Responsibilities & Duties:

• Own the end-to-end state and local permitting process for reactor transportation and deployment, from application through approval, ensuring Radiant is consistently getting faster and more effective at securing permits.

• Manage relationships with contractors and consultants engaged to support permit applications, site work, and inspections.

• Interface with Radiant's regulatory affairs, engineering, legal, and operations teams to ensure permit applications reflect accurate technical and site-specific information.

• Interface with Radiant’s community engagement team to ensure strong local understanding and support.

• Work directly with our customer’s permitting teams.

• Support state and federal policy teams with on-the-ground information, to scope policy suggestions and requests and provide input to advocacy.

• Track permit status and requirements across active and prospective deployment sites; flag risks or delays early to leadership.

• Build repeatable permitting processes and playbooks to reduce time-to-permit as Radiant scales to new states and sites.

• Maintain working knowledge of local and state permitting requirements (transportation, siting, zoning, environmental, construction) relevant to reactor deployment.

• Support site selection efforts with permitting feasibility input, in partnership with leadership.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• 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).

• Comfortable operating in ambiguity, working state-by-state without established precedent. Able to define State and Local permitting requirements independently, without primary reliance on support from large consultancies.

• Clear communicator able to work equally well with customers, contractors, consultants, and internal technical teams.

Desired Qualifications & Skills:

• 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.

Additional Requirements:

• Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as necessary to accomplish our mission.

• Must work 100% onsite in either Washington, D.C. or El Segundo, CA.

Benefits and Perks

• Stock: Substantial incentive stock plan for all full-time employees.

• Daily catered lunch. Free snacks and drinks.

• Flexible PTO policy. Remote workday allocation.