--- title: 'Senior Scheduler at Valar Atomics' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-scheduler-valar-atomics-torrance-2wy1zegqs8vc' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-16' --- # Senior Scheduler at Valar Atomics - **Company:** Valar Atomics - **Location:** Torrance, CA - **Compensation:** $150k–$175k - **Posted:** 2026-10-08 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/valaratomics/jobs/4438119009 ## 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 The Construction and Infrastructure organization delivers the facilities, infrastructure, and construction projects required to support Valar's mission. The team manages planning, execution, and delivery of complex capital projects while ensuring quality, safety, and operational readiness. ## The Role Valar Atomics is seeking an experienced Senior Scheduler to develop, maintain, and coordinate schedules across manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, and program activities. The Scheduler will be responsible for translating project and production requirements into actionable schedules, tracking progress, identifying constraints and risks, and working cross-functionally to keep critical activities on schedule. The ideal candidate has 5–7 years of experience in production scheduling, project scheduling, manufacturing planning, or project controls and is comfortable working in a fast-moving, high-mix manufacturing environment. ## Key Responsibilities - Develop and maintain detailed production, manufacturing, and project schedules. - Coordinate schedules across Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Procurement, and Operations. - Establish activity sequences, dependencies, milestones, durations, and resource requirements. - Track actual progress against baseline schedules and identify schedule variances. - Monitor critical-path activities and proactively identify potential delays and constraints. - Work with manufacturing and engineering teams to understand capacity, labor, equipment, material, and technical constraints. - Develop short-term look-ahead schedules and longer-term production plans. - Coordinate material availability and supplier commitments with the production schedule. - Identify schedule conflicts and work with stakeholders to develop mitigation and recovery plans. - Maintain accurate schedule data and provide regular status updates to project and functional leadership. - Support production planning for prototype, development, and production hardware. - Incorporate engineering changes, procurement status, manufacturing readiness, and quality requirements into schedules. - Participate in cross-functional planning and production meetings. - Develop schedule reports, dashboards, forecasts, and performance metrics for leadership. - Support what-if analysis and scenario planning to evaluate schedule impacts. - Maintain schedule integrity and ensure changes are properly documented and communicated. - Help establish scalable scheduling processes and standards as the organization grows. - Identify opportunities to improve planning, scheduling, and cross-functional coordination processes. ## Basic Qualifications - 5–7 years of experience in scheduling, production planning, project controls, manufacturing planning, or a related field. - Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Supply Chain, Construction Management, Business, or a related discipline; equivalent experience may be considered. - Strong understanding of scheduling concepts, dependencies, critical paths, milestones, and schedule forecasting. - Experience working in a manufacturing, engineering, aerospace, energy, industrial, or other complex technical environment. - Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel and scheduling/planning tools. - Ability to analyze large amounts of information and translate it into clear schedules and actionable priorities. - Excellent communication and coordination skills. - Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities in a rapidly changing environment. - Ability to work effectively with engineers, technicians, manufacturing personnel, supply chain teams, and leadership. ## Preferred Skills and Experience - Experience with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, or similar scheduling platforms. - Experience with ERP/MRP systems and production planning. - Experience in high-mix, low-volume manufacturing. - Experience scheduling complex assemblies, hardware, or engineered products. - Knowledge of capacity planning, material requirements, and resource-loaded scheduling. - Experience with critical-path analysis and schedule recovery planning. - Experience working with engineering change orders and configuration-controlled products. - Experience in aerospace, nuclear, energy, defense, advanced manufacturing, or another highly regulated technical environment. - PMP, PMI-SP, AACE, or other relevant certification is a plus. ## What We Offer - Competitive base salary - Equity ownership in a rapidly growing advanced energy company - Comprehensive medical benefits - Unlimited PTO - Free daily lunch - 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 - 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). Salary $150,000—$175,000 USD ## 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. 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