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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 is constructing its first pilot plant in Orangeville, Utah.
The Senior Scheduler will develop, maintain, and coordinate schedules across manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, and program activities. This role translates project and production requirements into actionable schedules, tracks progress against baselines, identifies constraints and risks, and works cross-functionally to keep critical activities on track.
Key responsibilities include:
- Develop and maintain detailed production, manufacturing, and project schedules
- Coordinate schedules across Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Procurement, and Operations
- Establish activity sequences, dependencies, milestones, durations, and resource requirements
- Track actual progress against baseline schedules and identify variances
- Monitor critical-path activities and proactively identify delays and constraints
- Work with manufacturing and engineering teams to understand capacity, labor, equipment, material, and technical constraints
- Develop short-term look-ahead schedules and longer-term production plans
- Coordinate material availability and supplier commitments with production schedules
- Identify schedule conflicts and develop mitigation and recovery plans
- Maintain accurate schedule data and provide regular status updates to leadership
- Support production planning for prototype, development, and production hardware
- Incorporate engineering changes, procurement status, manufacturing readiness, and quality requirements into schedules
- Participate in cross-functional planning and production meetings
- Develop schedule reports, dashboards, forecasts, and performance metrics
- Support what-if analysis and scenario planning
- Help establish scalable scheduling processes and standards as the organization grows
- Identify opportunities to improve planning, scheduling, and coordination processes
The ideal candidate is comfortable in a fast-moving, high-mix manufacturing environment and brings experience translating complex technical and operational requirements into clear, actionable schedules.
Requirements:
- 5–7 years of experience in scheduling, production planning, project controls, manufacturing planning, or a related field
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Supply Chain, Construction Management, Business, or a related discipline (equivalent experience may be considered)
- Strong understanding of scheduling concepts, dependencies, critical paths, milestones, and schedule forecasting
- Experience working in a manufacturing, engineering, aerospace, energy, industrial, or other complex technical environment
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel and scheduling/planning tools
- Ability to analyze large amounts of information and translate it into clear schedules and actionable priorities
- Excellent communication and coordination skills
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities in a rapidly changing environment
- Ability to work effectively with engineers, technicians, manufacturing personnel, supply chain teams, and leadership
Preferred:
- Experience with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, or similar scheduling platforms
- Experience with ERP/MRP systems and production planning
- Experience in high-mix, low-volume manufacturing
- Experience scheduling complex assemblies, hardware, or engineered products
- Knowledge of capacity planning, material requirements, and resource-loaded scheduling
- Experience with critical-path analysis and schedule recovery planning
- Experience with engineering change orders and configuration-controlled products
- Experience in aerospace, nuclear, energy, defense, advanced manufacturing, or other highly regulated technical environments
- PMP, PMI-SP, AACE, or other relevant certification
