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# Construction Quality Supervisor at Valar Atomics

- **Company:** Valar Atomics
- **Location:** Orangeville Utah, United States
- **Posted:** 2026-05-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/valaratomics/jobs/4248868009

## Job description

## About Valar Atomics

At Valar Atomics, we're redefining what's possible in energy. Our mission is to make clean, high-temperature nuclear power scalable—unlocking abundant energy for industry, hydrogen, and next-generation manufacturing. We are a team of builders, engineers, and operators who believe nuclear energy should be fast to deploy, factory-made, and built for the real world. Our first pilot plant in Orangeville, Utah will demonstrate how advanced nuclear systems and fuel fabrication can power the future. Joining Valar Atomics means becoming part of a company where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level.

The Team

As part of the Regulations & Safety organization, Quality Assurance establishes the systems and standards that ensure products and processes consistently meet the highest levels of quality and compliance. The team promotes continuous improvement and operational excellence across the company.

## The Role

As Construction Quality Supervisor, you will lead field execution of the construction quality organization supporting HTGR reactor deployment and associated infrastructure projects in Orangeville, Utah. This role sits directly within active construction operations and is responsible for ensuring disciplined, traceable, and technically defensible construction execution across multiple subcontracted trades including geotechnical, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and industrial construction activities.

Valar Atomics will act as the general contractor for its nuclear construction projects, requiring this role to provide direct quality oversight and coordination across diverse subcontractor organizations operating simultaneously within demanding field environments. You will lead Construction Quality Technicians and Inspectors while working closely with construction management, engineering, subcontractors, craft labor, supplier quality, and operational leadership to ensure quality requirements are understood, executable, and consistently implemented under real-world construction conditions.

This role is highly operational and hands-on. You will coordinate inspections, verification activities, hold points, traceability systems, turnover documentation, and controlled work execution while helping maintain project momentum under aggressive schedules and evolving technical conditions. Success in this role requires strong field leadership, multidisciplinary construction experience, technical judgment, operational awareness, and the ability to maintain execution discipline without creating unnecessary bureaucracy or disruption.

## Key Responsibilities

- Lead day-to-day field execution activities for the construction quality organization supporting reactor construction, infrastructure installation, fabrication, assembly, testing, and controlled field execution activities.
- Supervise Construction Quality Technicians and Inspectors while reinforcing disciplined execution, procedural compliance, technical rigor, and traceability integrity across all construction quality activities.
- Coordinate inspection activities, witness points, hold points, turnover documentation, and verification workflows across multiple subcontractor trades and construction disciplines.
- Provide quality oversight of subcontracted construction activities including geotechnical, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and industrial construction operations.
- Ensure construction records, material traceability, inspection documentation, as-built conditions, turnover packages, and controlled execution documentation remain accurate, complete, retrievable, and audit-ready.
- Support investigation and resolution of nonconformances, construction discrepancies, contractor quality concerns, field execution issues, procedural deviations, and technical documentation gaps.
- Work directly with construction management, engineering, supplier quality, craft labor, subcontractors, and operational leadership to ensure technically defensible and operationally executable quality solutions.
- Help identify emerging execution risks, traceability gaps, contractor performance concerns, and operational weaknesses before they become major project impacts.
- Mentor and develop field quality personnel while helping establish scalable construction quality execution standards and verification discipline across the organization.
- Participate in and conduct subcontractor quality system audits.

You Will Be Successful in This Role If

- You lead through technical competence, operational awareness, execution discipline, and professionalism rather than bureaucracy or positional authority.
- You are comfortable operating within demanding field construction environments involving changing priorities, evolving designs, schedule pressure, and complex contractor coordination.
- You can effectively balance technical rigor, procedural compliance, operational practicality, and project urgency without compromising execution integrity.
- You communicate clearly and professionally across engineers, craft labor, subcontractors, inspectors, and leadership teams while maintaining productive working relationships under pressure.
- You naturally identify operational risks, execution weaknesses, traceability gaps, and contractor quality concerns before they become larger failures.
- You thrive in high-accountability environments where ownership, urgency, adaptability, and mission commitment are expected daily.

## Basic Qualifications

- High school diploma or equivalent required; technical degree or engineering-related education preferred.
- 10+ years of experience supporting quality execution within industrial construction, nuclear construction, power generation, heavy industrial, aerospace, semiconductor, defense, or similarly demanding technical environments.
- 5+ years of experience leading field quality personnel, inspection teams, or construction quality execution activities.
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, construction work packages, technical procedures, inspection requirements, and controlled documentation.
- Familiarity with construction verification activities, inspection methods, material traceability systems, turnover documentation, and regulated quality systems.
- Comfortable working within active construction environments including outdoor conditions, elevated structures, confined spaces, industrial noise, dust, vibration, and changing environmental conditions while following all safety protocols.
- Flexible and willing to support demanding project schedules including extended hours, weekends, and rapid-response field problem solving when necessary.

## Preferred Skills and Experience

- Prior experience supporting nuclear construction projects, NQA-1 environments, DOE projects, ASME-related construction activities, or similarly regulated technical programs.
- Multidisciplinary construction quality experience spanning civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, welding, piping, fabrication, and industrial installation activities.
- Experience coordinating quality execution across multiple subcontractors and construction interfaces within general contractor environments.
- Familiarity with nonconformance systems, turnover packages, traceability systems, controlled work execution, and field verification methodologies.
- Experience supporting root cause investigations, corrective actions, and operational quality problem solving within complex construction projects.
- Working familiarity with dimensional inspection methods, field measurement systems, construction hold points, and technical verification workflows.
- Strong operational judgment and ability to make technically defensible decisions under ambiguity and schedule pressure.
- Subcontractor auditing.

## What we Offer

- Competitive base salary
- Equity ownership in a rapidly growing advanced energy company
- Comprehensive medical benefits
- Free daily lunch provided onsite
- 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
- The opportunity to help build and scale transformative energy technology from the ground up

## Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Valar Atomics is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable law. We are committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment and will provide reasonable accommodation as required by law. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder).

## About Valar Atomics

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Valar Atomics is scaling nuclear energy through grid-independent, high-temperature gas reactors (HTGR) for hydrogen production, data center power, heavy industrial power, and clean hydrocarbon fuel synthesis.
- **Entity Type**: Private (total funding $494M–$600.5M, latest round Debt - II)
- **Headquarters**: El Segundo, California, United States (additional location in Orangeville, Utah)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed (key executives include President Muhammad Shahzad and CNO Mark Mitchell)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Nuclear energy / advanced nuclear reactor technology
- **Target customers**: Large-scale industrial users (hydrogen producers, data centers, heavy industry), grid-independent operations, and fuel synthesis plants (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose**: “Nuclear needs scale” – unlock economies of scale by building hundreds of reactors on Valar gigasites, divorcing industrial power from the traditional grid.

## Products & Services
- **[Ward 250 Reactor]**: A grid-independent HTGR using TRISO fuel, designed for high-volume, non-bespoke production. Achieved criticality in June 2026 under DOE’s pilot program. Product type: Hardware (nuclear reactor).
- **[Hydrogen Production]**: Reactors paired with a sulfur-iodine cycle process to produce cheap, abundant hydrogen. Product type: Industrial energy product.
- **[Data Center Power]**: Dedicated on-site nuclear power for AI data centers, targeting AI’s projected 200+ TWh additional demand by 2030. Product type: Service / infrastructure.
- **[Heavy Industrial Power]**: Grid-independent power for processes like green steel and bauxite electrolysis. Product type: Service / infrastructure.
- **[Clean Hydrocarbon Fuels]**: Combines cheap hydrogen with captured CO₂ via a modified Fischer-Tropsch process to create synthetic fuels. Product type: Fuel product.
- **[Modular Citadel Shielding]**: Pre-cast, self-tensioning shielding system for mass-manufactured reactor protection. Production line capable of 1,000+ blocks per year. Product type: Hardware component.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (CB Insights shows valuation as hidden)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding reported as $494M (LinkedIn) or $600.5M (CB Insights, conflicting reports); latest round debt financing in November 2025.
- **Notable Investors**: Palmer Luckey, Shyam Sankar, Day One Ventures, DTX Ventures, Contrary, Riot Ventures (led Seed), Snowpoint Ventures (led Series A), and 28+ others.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 74 employees (+232% YoY, +9.6% monthly); 30 active job postings; Ward 250 reactor achieved criticality in June 2026; partnerships with DOE, San Rafael Energy Research Center, and State of Utah; opened first nuclear site (San Rafael) in February 2026.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proven HTGR design** with unmatched safety profile and proliferation resistance when paired with TRISO fuel.
- **Grid-independent “gigasite” model** that avoids traditional grid constraints, enabling mass manufacturing of standardized reactors.
- **Vertical integration**: In-house design of reactors, fuel processing (sulfur-iodine cycle), and shielding systems (Modular Citadel).
- **Speed to market**: Ward 250 is on track for power operations before July 4, 2026, under a DOE mandate.
- **Talent base**: Attracts engineers from Ultra Safe Nuclear, X-energy, Anduril, and other advanced hardware companies.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale manufacturing**: Transition from project-based nuclear to high-volume production through gigasites.
- **Achieve operational milestones**: Achieve hot criticality and power operation at Ward 250 by mid-2026.
- **Expand product lines**: Deliver grid-independent hydrogen, data center power, and synthetic fuels to meet industrial and AI energy demands.
- **Grow headcount rapidly**: Aggressively hiring in engineering, operations, quality, and technical roles.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven culture**: “Hardware is the only thing that counts” – emphasis on building real reactors, not just pitching.
- **High growth environment**: Company doubled headcount in the past year; roles offer significant ownership and impact.
- **Locations**: Hawthorne (CA), El Segundo (CA), Orangeville (UT), and Huntington (UT) – roles span design, manufacturing, and field operations.
- **Work style**: Likely on-site/hybrid for technical roles (e.g., Build Engineer, Nuclear Operations Manager, Machinist).
- **Perks & culture**: Rapid advancement opportunities, exposure to cutting-edge nuclear and chemical engineering, and a team with deep ties to defense and deep-tech.
- **Current openings**: 30+ roles including mechanical engineers, plant operators, quality engineers, finance systems engineers, and technical recruiters.

## Sources
1. [valaratomics.com](https://valaratomics.com/)
2. [Greenhouse careers](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/valaratomics)
3. [CB Insights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/valar-atomics)
4. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/valar-atomics)

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