Engineering Manager, Nuclear Reactor Systems

Valar Atomics Inc.; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership

Unlimited PTO

Free meals onsite

PPE stipend

High-impact startup

Career growth

Direct collaboration

Ground-up build

Job summary

Valar Atomics seeks an Engineering Manager for the reactor program. This role will build and lead a team of Responsible Engineers and designers for mechanical systems, either reactor side or plant side, from first unit through scaled production, delivering reactors at increasing rate.

The role requires hands-on leadership of engineers, owning people, schedule, and delivery, while removing blockers to keep design signature intact and accelerate delivery of functional systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of mechanical engineering on complex hardware.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Hire, onboard, and mentor the Responsible Engineers, engineers, and designers for your group of systems.
• Set workload and priorities for the team, and remove blockers so it can move as fast as possible.
• Manage scope, schedule, and budget for your systems within the reactor program.
• Run performance, growth, and staffing for the team as the program scales.
• Own schedule and delivery for each system, from design through IFC, build, and test.
• Track RE deliverables against each system’s baseline and raise slips early to the Director and program controls.
• Coordinate each system’s readiness for design reviews, design freeze, and IFC.
• Drive interface closure between systems with systems engineering and the plant model.
• Work closely with procurement and supply chain so parts and vendors arrive on time.
• Work with licensing, quality, safety, IC&E, and manufacturing so the design builds right the first time, and faster with each unit.

Skills

Mechanical engineering

People management

Hardware delivery

Design reviews

Vendor management

Shop floor hands-on

Job description

Valar Atomics seeks an Engineering Manager for the reactor program. This role will build and lead a team of Responsible Engineers and designers for mechanical systems, either reactor side or plant side, from first unit through scaled production, delivering reactors at increasing rate.

The role requires hands-on leadership of engineers, owning people, schedule, and delivery, while removing blockers to keep design signature intact and accelerate delivery of functional systems.