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Our mission is to make clean, high-temperature nuclear power scalable-unlocking abundant energy for industry, hydrogen, and next-generation manufacturing. We are a team of builders, engineers, and operators who believe nuclear energy should be fast to deploy, factory-made, and built for the real world. Our first pilot plant in Orangeville, Utah will demonstrate how advanced nuclear systems and fuel fabrication can power the future. Joining Valar Atomics means becoming part of a company where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level.\nThe Team \n\nAs part of the Engineering organization, Instrumentations & Controls designs the systems that monitor, automate, and protect Valar's facilities and reactor technologies. The team develops reliable control architectures that enable safe and efficient operations.\nThe Role\nValar Atomics is a young startup that turns ambitious engineering into working hardware. Before our third anniversary, we designed, built, commissioned, and operated a DOE-authorized research reactor outside the national laboratory system. That pace defines how we work: learn quickly, make sound decisions, and build systems that perform. Safe operation, disciplined testing, and regulatory rigor are non-negotiable. Analysis must lead to decisions and delivery, and we expect people to take ownership and see their work through. If you want hard problems, real responsibility, and the freedom to build with urgency, bring your judgment and drive to Valar. \nOwn the fuel program's daily OT work plan, team workload, and delivery commitments at our Orangeville site. Keep local installation, testing, and maintenance aligned with manufacturing needs and dependable handoffs with the Torrance team. Technical expertise is preferred, not required; people-management and decision authority develop through explicit delegation. \nOT Engineering delivers power and rack infrastructure, compute, networks, identity, security, operational data, and industrial software platforms. FactoryTalk scope covers backend deployment, configuration, integration, and recovery. \nKey Responsibilities \n\nSet local priorities and maintain a realistic work plan around manufacturing needs, maintenance demands, site resources, and delivery commitments.\nAssign work, set clear expectations, coach team members, give candid feedback, and address missed commitments within delegated authority. \nCoordinate installation, testing, maintenance, and vendor activities with production and engineering stakeholders. \nArrange specialist support across Orangeville and Torrance, with clear task ownership, prerequisites, and handoffs. \nMaintain as built structured cabling drawings for site and fuel network systems \nMaintain accurate status, issue records, and completion evidence; resolve obstacles and escalate site constraints promptly. \nObtain required engineering and acceptance decisions, then carry work through testing, documentation, and operational turnover.\nYou Will Be Successful in This Role If \nHighly organized, with disciplined task tracking, accurate documentation, clear priorities, and reliable follow-through.\nCalm, practical direction when production needs, maintenance demands, or site priorities change. \nConsistent coaching, candid feedback, and fair accountability that build dependable local execution. \nHighly proficient in contractor management and leading a team that is majority contractors for a time \nReliable cross-site communication that keeps work moving and preserves ownership through handoffs. \nPractical judgment in balancing installation, maintenance, and production support while maintaining agreed priorities. \nBasic Qualifications \n\nDirect people-management or supervisory experience, including assignments, expectations, coaching, feedback, and accountability for completion.\nExperience coordinating concurrent technical or operational work involving specialists, vendors, resources, schedules, and dependencies. \nAbility to maintain clear priorities, realistic work plans, accurate status and issue records, and dependable follow-through under pressure. \nExperience removing delivery obstacles, escalating consequential issues, and coordinating handoffs against engineers' requirements and acceptance decisions within delegated authority. \nCoordinate local installation, maintenance, testing, and documentation with dependable production-facing and cross-site handoffs. \nTechnical specialization is preferred, not required. Qualified nontechnical people managers are eligible; hands-on engineering execution is not required.\nPreferred Skills and Experience\nExperience managing infrastructure or technical services in manufacturing or other production environments.\nExperience planning installation or maintenance work in a quality-controlled operating environment. \nFamiliarity with industrial OT infrastructure or coordination of local teams with remote specialists. \nWhat We Offer \nCompetitive base salary \nEquity ownership in a rapidly growing advanced energy company \nComprehensive medical benefits \nUnlimited PTO\nFree daily lunch \nGenerous PPE stipend\nHigh-impact startup environment with significant ownership and autonomy \nOpportunities for rapid career growth and internal advancement \nDirect collaboration with experienced operators, engineers, and industry leaders \nThe opportunity to help build and scale transformative energy technology from the ground up\nEqual Employment Opportunity Statement\nValar Atomics is an equal opportunity employer. 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