Lead OT Engineer - Power Conversion
About The Position
Valar Atomics is hiring a Lead OT Engineer for its power-conversion program. The role owns the program’s daily OT work plan, team workload, and delivery commitments, coordinating equipment, vendor, integration, and test dependencies while adapting to changing schedules. People-management and decision authority develop through explicit delegation; technical expertise is preferred but not required, and hands-on engineering execution is not required. OT Engineering delivers power and rack infrastructure, compute, networks, identity, security, operational data, and industrial software platforms. The FactoryTalk scope includes backend deployment, configuration, integration, and recovery. The successful candidate will help coordinate infrastructure implementation, commissioning support, maintenance, and turnover, while maintaining accurate documentation and tracking engineering and acceptance decisions through implementation, testing, and completion. The position requires disciplined organization, clear priorities, dependable follow-through, team coaching and accountability, and respect for readiness and acceptance decisions under delivery pressure.
Requirements
- Direct people-management or supervisory experience, including assigning work, setting expectations, coaching, providing feedback, and holding people accountable for completion.
- Experience coordinating concurrent technical or operational work involving specialists, vendors, resources, schedules, and dependencies.
- Ability to maintain clear priorities, realistic work plans, accurate status and issue records, and dependable follow-through under pressure.
- Experience removing delivery obstacles, escalating consequential issues, and coordinating handoffs against engineers’ requirements and acceptance decisions within delegated authority.
- Ability to sequence equipment, vendor, integration, and testing dependencies with clear readiness and escalation decisions.
- Highly organized, with disciplined task tracking, accurate documentation, clear priorities, and reliable follow-through.
- Ability to prioritize calmly when equipment, vendor, or test schedules change.
- Consistent coaching, candid feedback, and fair accountability to keep a team effective.
- Proficiency in contractor management and leading a team that is majority contractors for a time.
- Early recognition of dependencies and resource conflicts, followed by practical action to keep work moving.
- Respect for readiness and acceptance decisions when delivery pressure increases.
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.
Nice To Haves
- Experience leading delivery, commissioning, services, or maintenance work for power-generation or heavy-equipment programs.
- Experience coordinating vendors, equipment interfaces, and site test schedules.
- Familiarity with industrial OT infrastructure or power-conversion equipment.
- Technical specialization; technical expertise is preferred but not required.
Responsibilities
- Sequence OT work around equipment availability, vendor deliverables, integration needs, test windows, and site readiness.
- Assign work, set clear expectations, coach team members, give candid feedback, and address missed commitments within delegated authority.
- Maintain realistic staffing and work plans; resolve competing commitments and resource gaps early.
- Coordinate infrastructure implementation, commissioning support, maintenance, and turnover with equipment and program stakeholders.
- Maintain as-built structured cabling drawings for site and power-conversion network systems.
- Resolve execution obstacles, hold owners to agreed actions, and escalate constraints before they block dependent work.
- Obtain engineering and acceptance decisions and track implementation, testing, and records through completion.
- Coordinate the power-conversion program’s daily OT work plan, team workload, and delivery commitments.
- Coordinate equipment, vendor, integration, and testing dependencies with clear readiness and escalation decisions.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- Equity ownership in a rapidly growing advanced energy company
- Comprehensive medical benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Free daily lunch and dinner provided onsite
- Generous PPE stipend
- High-impact startup environment with significant ownership and autonomy
- Opportunities for rapid career growth and internal advancement
- Direct collaboration with experienced operators, engineers, and industry leaders
- Opportunity to help build and scale transformative energy technology from the ground up
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
