Lead OT Engineer - Fuel

The role

The Lead OT Engineer owns the fuel program's daily OT work plan, team workload, and delivery commitments at the Orangeville site. This role involves coordinating installation, testing, and maintenance to align with manufacturing needs.

What you will do

• Set local priorities and maintain a realistic work plan.
• Assign work, set expectations, coach team members, and give feedback.
• Coordinate installation, testing, maintenance, and vendor activities.
• Arrange specialist support across Orangeville and Torrance.
• Maintain as built structured cabling drawings for site and fuel network systems.
• Maintain accurate status, issue records, and completion evidence.
• Obtain required engineering and acceptance decisions and carry work through testing and documentation.

Required qualifications

• Direct people-management or supervisory experience.
• 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.
• Coordinate local installation, maintenance, testing, and documentation with dependable production-facing and cross-site handoffs.

Nice to have

• Technical specialization
• Experience managing infrastructure or technical services in manufacturing or other production environments
• Experience planning installation or maintenance work in a quality-controlled operating environment
• Familiarity with industrial OT infrastructure or coordination of local teams with remote specialists

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Equity ownership
• Comprehensive medical benefits
• Unlimited PTO
• Free daily lunch
• 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

Before you apply

• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder).

About the company

Valar Atomics is a company working to make clean, high-temperature nuclear power scalable. Their first pilot plant will be in Orangeville, Utah.