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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.\nAbout the role\nThe Project Manager will lead development execution for one of Valar’s first commercial projects. This role is responsible for managing the project from early site development through major investment and delivery readiness milestones, with continued involvement after handoff to support continuity, decision-making, and alignment with the construction and delivery teams.\nThe Project Manager will own the integrated development schedule, coordinate across internal teams and external partners, support vendors and internal planning before construction handoff, track development-phase cost and risk inputs, and help define the project control’s structure Valar will use as it scales. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who has managed complex capital projects and can operate in a fast-moving startup environment. The right person will bring strong project discipline without creating unnecessary bureaucracy. Success in this role means building a project development model that is clear, practical, repeatable, and strong enough to support future commercial sites.\nKey Responsibilities\nDevelop and maintain the integrated project development schedule from site development through major investment decision, delivery readiness, and construction handoff.\nRun regular schedule updates, critical path reviews, look ahead planning, and schedule risk analysis during the development and pre-construction phases.\nDrive readiness for key project gates, including early engineering, development milestones, regulatory milestones, customer milestones, and internal investment decisions.\nOwn the master milestone list, gate decision log, and project development execution calendar.\nSupport internal engineering and major vendor planning during the development and pre-construction phases, including scope definition, schedule inputs, commercial readiness, and handoff preparation, working closely with the Project Delivery team.\nCoordinate with Supply Chain, Engineering, Delivery, and Construction leadership on long-lead equipment planning and major vendor readiness before execution handoff.\nHelp define the information, documentation, and decision packages required for a clean handoff to the Delivery and Construction teams.\nParticipate in contractor coordination and executive contractor reviews as needed during development and handoff, while supporting the Delivery team as the primary owner of construction execution.\nMaintain visibility into key vendor, internal engineering, schedule, cost, and risk items after handoff to support continuity between project development and construction execution.\nProduce weekly project status reports covering schedule, cost, risk, open decisions, and major actions during the development phase.\nPrepare monthly executive updates and quarterly board-level project updates in coordination with company leadership.\nMaintain the project risk register during development, run regular risk reviews, and escalate major risks to leadership.\nPartner with cost estimating, finance, and project controls teams on estimates, cost reporting, capital planning, and earned value management inputs.\nHelp define the project controls function, including tools, reporting structure, cost coding, change control, and document control practices.\nCoordinate closely with Engineering, Licensing, Delivery, Finance, Supply Chain, Real Estate, Public Relations, Government Relations, and executive leadership.\nServe as a senior project development representative in Utah and support local stakeholder engagement with government, community, and regional partners.\nYou will be successful in this role if:\nYou can own a complex development schedule and drive action when the schedule is unclear, incomplete, or off track.\nYou understand how to manage large capital project development without slowing the team down with unnecessary process.\nYou are comfortable working 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