Director, Electrical - Power Distribution

The role

You will build and lead the Power Distribution engineering organization. You will architect and deliver islanded power systems for microgrids scaling up to 20 GWe.

What you will do

• Build and lead an in-house Power Distribution engineering organization
• Own the electrical architecture of islanded multi-gigawatt microgrids
• Engineer generator step-up transformers, collector systems, switchyards, and substations
• Own power system studies including load flow, short circuit, and grounding
• Own grid stability for islanded operation
• Own protection and relaying philosophy and design
• Define and enforce power quality and reliability requirements
• Work with reactor and nuclear safety engineers on microgrid and reactor interface
• Define functional requirements for generator controls and microgrid control
• Coordinate with customer engineering teams on load characteristics

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering with a power systems focus
• 15+ years of power systems engineering experience in utility, generation, transmission, or large industrial power systems
• 7+ years leading engineering teams
• Deep expertise in power system analysis including load flow, short circuit, protection coordination, and dynamic stability
• Hands-on experience in tools such as ETAP, PSS/E, PSCAD, PowerFactory, or equivalent
• Experience architecting and delivering HV/EHV substations, switchyards, and transmission or large collector systems from concept through energization
• Strong command of protection and relaying philosophy, relay settings, and protection system design
• Experience with large generation interconnection, generator controls, and frequency and voltage control behavior
• Proven ability to build teams from the ground up, hire strong engineers, and deliver on aggressive schedules

Nice to have

• Professional Engineer (PE) license or eligibility
• Experience designing islanded, weak-grid, or microgrid power systems
• Experience serving large data center or other large dynamic loads
• Experience with EMT modeling of inverter-based resources or large power electronic loads
• Experience with standardized, repeatable substation designs and serial deployment programs
• Experience in startup or rapid-growth environments

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Equity ownership
• Comprehensive medical benefits
• Unlimited PTO
• Free daily lunch and dinner provided onsite
• Generous PPE stipend

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 aims to make clean, high-temperature nuclear power scalable. Their first pilot plant will be in Orangeville, Utah.