OT Engineering Lead — Nuclear Power Startup with Equity

Valar Atomics Inc.; New Mexico; On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership

Medical benefits

Unlimited PTO

Free onsite meals

PPE stipend

High-impact startup environment

Job summary

Valar Atomics is a young startup that designs, builds, and operates reactor technologies. The role focuses on owning the daily OT work plan, team workload, and delivery commitments, with emphasis on safe operation and regulatory rigor.

You will lead and coordinate installation, testing, maintenance, and turnover with engineers and site stakeholders. Technical expertise is preferred but not required; hands-on engineering execution is not mandatory.

Qualifications

• Direct people-management or supervisory experience, including assignments, expectations, coaching, feedback, and accountability for completion.
• 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 within delegated authority.
• Coordinate site work and handoffs against installation readiness, approved test prerequisites, and engineering acceptance decisions.

Responsibilities

• Plan and prioritize reactor OT work against site access, installation readiness, test prerequisites, available resources, and agreed commitments.
• Assign work, set clear expectations, coach team members, give candid feedback, and address missed commitments within delegated authority.
• Maintain a current view of site work, vendor activities, dependencies, and unresolved issues; revise the plan when conditions change.
• 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, resolve competing demands on the team, and lift constraints before they threaten committed work.
• Obtain required engineering and acceptance decisions, then follow the agreed work through verified completion and accurate handoff records.

Skills

People management

Contractor management

Project coordination

Prioritization & planning

Decision making under pressure

Job description

Valar Atomics is a young startup that designs, builds, and operates reactor technologies. The role focuses on owning the daily OT work plan, team workload, and delivery commitments, with emphasis on safe operation and regulatory rigor.

You will lead and coordinate installation, testing, maintenance, and turnover with engineers and site stakeholders. Technical expertise is preferred but not required; hands-on engineering execution is not mandatory.