Lead OT Engineer - Reactor

The role

The Lead OT Engineer owns the reactor program's daily OT work plan, team workload, and delivery commitments. This role involves coordinating installation, testing, maintenance, and handoffs for OT infrastructure including power, compute, networks, and industrial software platforms.

What you will do

• Plan and prioritize reactor OT work against site access, installation readiness, and resources.
• Assign work, set expectations, coach team members, and provide feedback.
• Maintain a current view of site work, vendor activities, and dependencies.
• 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 and resolve competing demands on the team.
• Obtain required engineering and acceptance decisions and follow work through to completion.

Required qualifications

• Direct people-management or supervisory experience, including assignments, expectations, coaching, feedback, and accountability.
• 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.
• Coordinate site work and handoffs against installation readiness, approved test prerequisites, and engineering acceptance decisions.
• Highly proficient in contractor management and leading a team that is majority contractors for a time.

Nice to have

• Technical specialization
• 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.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Equity ownership
• 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

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