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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 \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 reactor program's daily OT work plan, team workload, and delivery commitments. Keep installation, testing, maintenance, and handoffs moving as site readiness and program priorities change, with clear expectations and calm follow-through. 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. The FactoryTalk scope covers backend deployment, configuration, integration, and recovery. \nKey Responsibilities \nPlan and prioritize reactor OT work against site access, installation readiness, test prerequisites, available resources, and agreed commitments.\nAssign work, set clear expectations, coach team members, give candid feedback, and address missed commitments within delegated authority.\nMaintain a current view of site work, vendor activities, dependencies, and unresolved issues; revise the plan when conditions change.\nCoordinate installation, testing, maintenance, and turnover with engineers and site stakeholders.\nMaintain as built structured cabling drawings for site and reactor network systems\nRemove obstacles, resolve competing demands on the team, and escalate constraints before they threaten committed work.\nObtain required engineering and acceptance decisions, then follow the agreed work through verified completion and accurate handoff records.\nYou Will Be Successful in This Role If \nHighly organized, with disciplined task tracking, accurate documentation, clear priorities, and reliable follow-through.\nCalm direction when site conditions or priorities change, with timely decisions and escalation.\nConsistent coaching, candid feedback, and fair accountability that improve team performance.\nHighly proficient in contractor management and leading a team that is majority contractors for a time\nClear ownership of daily commitments and timely adjustment of plans when prerequisites or resources change.\nDiscipline in checking agreed readiness conditions and obtaining engineering direction before affected work proceeds. \nBasic Qualifications \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 site work and handoffs against installation readiness, approved test prerequisites, and engineering acceptance decisions.\nTechnical specialization is preferred, not required. 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