Lead OT Engineer - Reactor
About The Position
Valar Atomics is hiring a Lead OT Engineer to own the reactor program’s daily OT work plan, team workload, and delivery commitments. The role keeps installation, testing, maintenance, and handoffs moving as site readiness and program priorities change. 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 covers backend deployment, configuration, integration, and recovery. The position requires disciplined planning, clear communication, contractor management, and reliable follow-through, with safe operation, testing discipline, and regulatory rigor treated as essential.
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 coordinate site work and handoffs against installation readiness, approved test prerequisites, and engineering acceptance decisions.
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.
Nice To Haves
- Technical specialization; hands-on engineering execution is not required.
- Experience leading installation, commissioning, maintenance, or test-facility work.
- Experience coordinating work across engineering, construction, operations, and vendors.
- Familiarity with OT infrastructure, controlled work processes, or facility testing.
Responsibilities
- Plan and prioritize reactor OT work according to site access, installation readiness, test prerequisites, available resources, and agreed commitments.
- Assign work, set expectations, coach team members, provide candid feedback, and address missed commitments within delegated authority.
- Maintain a current view of site work, vendor activities, dependencies, and unresolved issues; revise plans when conditions change.
- Coordinate installation, testing, maintenance, and turnover with engineers and site stakeholders.
- Maintain as-built structured cabling drawings for site and reactor network systems.
- Remove obstacles, resolve competing demands on the team, and escalate constraints before they threaten committed work.
- Obtain required engineering and acceptance decisions, then follow agreed work through verified completion and accurate handoff records.
- Coordinate site work and handoffs against installation readiness, approved test prerequisites, and engineering acceptance 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
