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Valar Atomics is a Series A advanced nuclear energy company building scalable, factory-made nuclear systems for industrial heat, hydrogen production, and next-generation manufacturing. The company has already designed, built, commissioned, and operated a DOE-authorized research reactor outside the national laboratory system within its first three years.
This role leads the operational technology (OT) engineering team supporting the fuel program at Valar's Orangeville, Utah pilot plant. You will own the daily work plan, team workload, and delivery commitments for local installation, testing, and maintenance activities. The position bridges site-level execution with the Torrance-based engineering team, ensuring reliable handoffs and coordinated specialist support.
Key responsibilities include:
- Setting local priorities and maintaining realistic work plans aligned with manufacturing needs, maintenance demands, site resources, and delivery commitments
- Assigning work, setting clear expectations, coaching team members, providing candid feedback, and addressing missed commitments within delegated authority
- Coordinating installation, testing, maintenance, and vendor activities with production and engineering stakeholders
- Arranging specialist support across Orangeville and Torrance with clear task ownership, prerequisites, and handoffs
- Maintaining as-built structured cabling drawings for site and fuel network systems
- Maintaining accurate status records, issue tracking, and completion evidence; resolving obstacles and escalating site constraints promptly
- Obtaining required engineering and acceptance decisions, then carrying work through testing, documentation, and operational turnover
OT Engineering scope includes power and rack infrastructure, compute, networks, identity, security, operational data, and industrial software platforms. FactoryTalk responsibilities cover backend deployment, configuration, integration, and recovery.
The company emphasizes learning quickly, making sound decisions, and building systems that perform. Safe operation, disciplined testing, and regulatory rigor are non-negotiable. Analysis must lead to decisions and delivery, with expectation that people take ownership and see their work through.
Requirements:
- Highly organized with disciplined task tracking, accurate documentation, clear priorities, and reliable follow-through
- Calm, practical direction when production needs, maintenance demands, or site priorities change
- Consistent coaching, candid feedback, and fair accountability that build dependable local execution
- Highly proficient in contractor management and leading a team that is majority contractors for a time
- Experience managing infrastructure or technical services in manufacturing or other production environments (preferred)
- Experience planning installation or maintenance work in a quality-controlled operating environment (preferred)
- Familiarity with industrial OT infrastructure or coordination of local teams with remote specialists (preferred)
- Technical expertise is preferred but not required; people-management and decision authority develop through explicit delegation
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident
