Engineering Manager, Numenor (Reactor)

The role

The Engineering Manager will build and lead a team of engineers and designers for mechanical systems. This role manages people, schedule, and delivery from the first unit through scaled production.

What you will do

• Hire, onboard, and mentor Responsible Engineers, engineers, and designers
• Set workload and priorities for the team
• Manage scope, schedule, and budget for systems within the reactor program
• Run performance, growth, and staffing for the team
• Own schedule and delivery for each system from design through IFC, build, and test
• Track RE deliverables against each system's baseline
• Coordinate system readiness for design reviews, design freeze, and IFC
• Drive interface closure between systems
• Work with procurement and supply chain for parts and vendors
• Work with licensing, quality, safety, IC&E, and manufacturing

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of mechanical engineering on complex hardware, such as pressure systems, heat transfer equipment, mechanisms, or large structures
• 3+ years managing engineers with direct reports
• Delivered hardware from design through build and test against a schedule
• Led mechanical systems on first-of-a-kind hardware from concept through build, test, and commissioning
• Strong base in mechanical design, drawings, analysis, and design reviews
• Experience managing vendors and key suppliers through design and fabrication
• Comfortable working hands-on with the team on the shop floor and with vendors

Nice to have

• Experience with high-temperature, high-pressure systems, such as pressure vessels, heat exchangers, and piping
• Hardware delivery: first-of-a-kind hardware taken from design through build and test, in aerospace, power generation, oil and gas, or defense
• Helium or other gas systems, precision mechanisms, or rotating equipment
• Power conversion, heat rejection, or balance of plant, including skids and modular systems built in a factory and installed on site
• Working knowledge of ASME pressure vessel and piping codes (Section VIII, B31.1, B31.3)
• Design for manufacture and scaling from prototype to series production
• Nuclear industry experience: commercial, defense, or national laboratory
• PE license (Mechanical)

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