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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 Regulations & Safetyorganization, Quality Assurance establishesthe systems and standards that ensure products and processes consistently meet the highest levels of quality and compliance. The team promotes continuous improvement and operational excellence across the company.\nThe Role \nAs Production Quality Supervisor, you will lead day-to-day quality execution on the production floor supporting HTGR reactor component and fuel-related manufacturing activities. This role sits within the Torrance manufacturing and fuel fabrication environment.\nThis role sits directly within active production operations and is responsible for ensuring disciplined, traceable, and technically defensible manufacturing execution across build, assembly, test, and inspection activities. You will lead Production Quality Technicians and Inspectors while working closely with Production Quality Engineers, manufacturing leadership, operators, and Operations Quality leadership to ensure quality requirements are understood, executable, and consistently implemented under real-world production conditions.\nThis role is highly operational and hands-on. You will coordinate inspections, verification activities, hold points, traceability systems, nonconformance and CAPA closure, and controlled work execution while helping maintain production momentum under aggressive schedules and evolving technical conditions. Success in this role requires strong floor leadership, manufacturing quality experience, technical judgment, operational awareness, and the ability to maintain execution discipline without creating unnecessary bureaucracy or disruption.\nKey Responsibilities\nLead day-to-day floor execution activities for the production quality organization supporting reactor component fabrication, assembly, testing, and controlled production execution.\nSupervise Production Quality Technicians and Inspectors while reinforcing disciplined execution, procedural compliance, technical rigor, and traceability integrity across all production quality activities.\nCoordinate inspection activities, hold points, in-process verification, and controlled workflows across manufacturing cells, work centers, and production disciplines.\nProvide quality oversight of production activities including material handling, fabrication, assembly, testing, and final inspection.\nEnsure build records, material traceability, inspection documentation, and controlled execution documentation remain accurate, complete, retrievable, and audit-ready.\nSupport investigation and resolution of nonconformances, production discrepancies, workmanship concerns, procedural deviations, and technical documentation gaps.\nWork directly with manufacturing leadership, Production Quality Engineers, Operations, and Engineering to ensure technically defensible and operationally executable quality solutions.\nHelp identify emerging execution risks, traceability gaps, process performance concerns, and operational weaknesses before they become major production impacts.\nMentor and develop floor quality personnel while helping establish scalable production quality execution standards and verification discipline across the organization.\nSupport Operator Verification Certification (OVC) implementation on the floor, coordinating with the Quality Department on certification, currency, and delegation of verification activities.\nParticipate in internal audits of production quality processes and support external audit readiness.\nYou Will Be Successful in This Role If\nYou lead through technical competence, operational awareness, execution discipline, and professionalism rather than bureaucracy or positional authority.\nYou are comfortable operating within demanding production environments involving changing priorities, evolving designs, schedule pressure, and cross-functional coordination.\nYou can effectively balance technical rigor, procedural compliance, operational practicality, and production urgency without compromising execution integrity.\nYou communicate clearly and professionally across operators, technicians, engineers, and leadership teams while maintaining productive working relationships under pressure.\nYou naturally identify operational risks, execution weaknesses, traceability gaps, and process concerns before they become larger failures.\nYou thrive in high-accountability environments where ownership, urgency, adaptability, and mission commitment are expected daily.\nBasic Qualifications\nHigh school diploma or equivalent required; 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