Jobs at Valar Atomics

Lead the design and delivery of medium- and low-voltage electrical systems for nuclear fuel manufacturing facilities. Responsibilities include power system studies, substation and protection design, equipment specifications, vendor management, factory acceptance testing, installation support, regulatory engagement, design reviews, and mentoring junior engineers. The role serves as the electrical discipline’s technical authority and coordinates with I&C, civil, structural, nuclear safety, contractors, and consultants.

Designs, programs, commissions, and maintains PLC, DCS, SCADA, HMI, batch-control, safety-instrumented, historian, and industrial communication systems for nuclear fuel manufacturing. Responsibilities include instrumentation specification and commissioning, control-loop tuning, alarm and SIS configuration, FAT/SAT execution, OT cybersecurity, troubleshooting, documentation, contractor oversight, technical leadership, and mentoring junior engineers.

Design and support MV/LV electrical systems for nuclear fuel manufacturing facilities. Responsibilities include power system studies, arc flash and grounding analyses, equipment selection, single-line diagrams, layouts, cable routing, specifications, vendor reviews, commissioning support, and coordination with multidisciplinary engineering teams. The role requires applying electrical codes and standards while supporting technical documentation, field questions, design reviews, and installation activities.

Conduct security reviews during software design and post-development code review across C#, Python, React, and PostgreSQL. Perform threat modeling, identify vulnerabilities, recommend remediation, maintain secure coding standards, and support CMMC 2.0, DFARS, and NIST 800-171 compliance. Partner with engineering teams on application security, CI/CD security checks, software supply chain security, and developer training.

Develop, configure, test, and commission PLC, DCS, SCADA, HMI, batch, safety, historian, and enterprise integration software for nuclear fuel manufacturing facilities. Responsibilities include industrial communications, alarm management, OT cybersecurity, software configuration management, FAT/SAT testing, commissioning, troubleshooting, documentation, and contractor technical direction. The role coordinates controls software with I&C hardware and supports both capital projects and plant operations.

Designs, programs, commissions, and maintains PLC, DCS, SCADA, HMI, batch, safety instrumented, historian, and enterprise control systems for nuclear fuel manufacturing. Owns instrumentation engineering, field device specification, control loop tuning, industrial communications, FAT/SAT, commissioning, troubleshooting, documentation, and OT cybersecurity. Provides technical leadership, contractor oversight, quality compliance, and mentorship for complex controls projects.

Leads instrumentation and controls hardware engineering for nuclear fuel manufacturing facilities. Responsibilities include specifying field instruments and control valves, designing control panels and I/O architecture, hazardous-area and safety-instrumented-system engineering, calibration, commissioning, loop tuning, field wiring and OT infrastructure, FAT/SAT execution, reliability programs, contractor oversight, documentation, vendor review, and mentorship.

Serves as the technical authority for automation and controls software across nuclear reactor and fuel manufacturing facilities. Owns PLC/DCS, SCADA, HMI, batch, alarm, safety logic, historian, enterprise integration, and OT architecture. Establishes software standards, leads first-of-a-kind control strategies, reviews engineering work, mentors staff, directs integrators, and oversees testing, commissioning, documentation, cybersecurity, and operational troubleshooting in accordance with nuclear quality and industry standards.

Own implementation, commissioning, testing, troubleshooting, recovery, and verified delivery of operational technology infrastructure. Responsibilities span power and rack systems, compute, storage, virtualization, networking, security, FactoryTalk backends, Windows domains, logging, authentication, and operational data systems. The role requires disciplined planning, configuration control, technical documentation, evidence-based fault diagnosis, interface coordination, and approximately 15% travel to company facilities.

Lead investigations and resolution of complex operational technology failures spanning infrastructure, compute, networks, industrial software, data, identity, and cybersecurity. Develop architectures, designs, standards, procedures, and acceptance criteria; support implementation, commissioning, troubleshooting, and recovery; and convert field lessons into reusable practices. The role requires broad systems capability, deep expertise across multiple disciplines, technical leadership, disciplined documentation, and approximately 15% travel to the Orangeville, Utah facility.

Own implementation, testing, commissioning, troubleshooting, recovery, and verified delivery of operational technology systems. Responsibilities span power and rack infrastructure, compute, virtualization, networking, industrial software backends, Windows domains, access control, logging, authentication, operational data, and technical documentation. The role requires diagnosing faults through evidence, managing controlled configurations, coordinating system interfaces, and completing reliable handoffs. Travel to the Orangeville, Utah facility is approximately 15%.

Own legal operations infrastructure, including capitalization table management, routine agreements, entity governance, corporate insurance, contract lifecycle systems, compliance calendars, export control support, and board materials. Build scalable legal playbooks, templates, workflows, and processes while coordinating with Finance, HR, vendors, the General Counsel, and business teams.

Develops should-cost models for components, assemblies, and services; analyzes supplier quotes, cost breakdowns, and market trends; supports sourcing negotiations and make-versus-buy decisions; identifies cost-reduction opportunities; maintains cost databases; and presents recommendations to sourcing and engineering leadership. The role also mentors supply chain team members on cost drivers, supplier economics, manufacturing trade-offs, and design-to-cost considerations.

Designs, specifies, installs, commissions, calibrates, and maintains instrumentation and control hardware for nuclear fuel manufacturing facilities. Responsibilities include field instruments, control valves, panels, I/O architecture, hazardous-area systems, safety instrumented systems, wiring, OT networks, loop tuning, commissioning, reliability, documentation, and contractor/vendor coordination. The role requires collaboration with process, electrical, mechanical, nuclear safety, and software engineering teams while maintaining nuclear quality and safety standards.

Develops and scales supply chain processes across sourcing, buying, and delivery for manufacturing growth. Translates strategy and systems architecture into operational workflows, configures supply chain systems, maintains data governance, tracks KPIs, leads continuous improvement and change management, and ensures audit readiness. The role partners cross-functionally with engineering, manufacturing, quality, and IT teams in a regulated manufacturing environment.

Leads mechanical design for advanced nuclear power subsystems, developing CAD models, drawings, analyses, prototypes, and production-ready hardware. Oversees structural, thermal, and fluid analyses; partners with manufacturing, electrical, systems engineers, and vendors; supports DFM, testing, quality, and configuration management. Mentors engineers, reviews designs, leads technical decisions, and contributes to mechanical engineering standards and root-cause investigations.

Lead mechanical design and development for advanced nuclear power hardware, from concept through production. Create CAD models and drawings, perform FEA and CFD, oversee prototyping and testing, collaborate with manufacturing and vendors, and mentor junior engineers. Ensure designs meet performance, manufacturability, cost, quality, and reliability requirements while contributing to engineering standards and configuration management.

Manages infrastructure and facility projects from planning and design through construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout. Responsibilities include scope, schedule, budget, risk, cost forecasting, change orders, RFIs, contractor coordination, design reviews, procurement, construction sequencing, commissioning, and operational readiness. The role collaborates with architects, engineers, contractors, vendors, and internal teams to deliver safe, high-quality projects on schedule and within budget.

Develops and maintains production, manufacturing, and project schedules across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, procurement, and operations. Tracks progress, critical paths, constraints, variances, material availability, and supplier commitments. Creates look-ahead plans, forecasts, dashboards, what-if analyses, and recovery plans while incorporating engineering changes and quality requirements. Partners with cross-functional teams to improve scheduling processes and support prototype, development, and production hardware planning.

Designs and builds test stands, develops procedures, executes test campaigns, and monitors test data. Maintains data acquisition systems and integrates test streams with SCADA and historian infrastructure. Troubleshoots instrumentation and hardware issues, analyzes data to identify root causes, collaborates on design improvements, and prepares compliant test documentation and reports for regulators and auditors.