Production Quality Admin

Valar Atomics is a nuclear energy company focused on scaling high-temperature gas reactors (HTGRs) for grid-independent industrial applications. The company is developing what it calls gigasites, large-scale facilities housing hundreds of nuclear reactors intended to power heavy industry, data centers, hydrogen production, and clean hydrocarbon fuel synthesis. Their reactor design uses TRISO fuel, a graphite moderator, and helium coolant, a combination the company highlights for its strong safety profile and proliferation resistance. By operating outside the traditional electricity grid, Valar Atomics aims to unlock economies of scale that have historically eluded the nuclear industry. Valar Atomics' mission centers on making nuclear energy the cheapest and most reliable energy source in the world, with a particular emphasis on decarbonizing industrial processes and enabling clean fuel production. Their hydrogen output, generated via a sulfur-iodine thermochemical cycle, can be combined with captured CO2 to produce synthetic hydrocarbons through a modified Fischer-Tropsch process, offering a pathway to drop-in clean fuels. The company also targets the surging power demands of AI data centers, which are projected to require over 200 additional terawatt-hours of grid power by 2030. The company is currently advancing its Ward 250 project, a test reactor being developed in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy, the San Rafael Energy Research Center, and the State of Utah, with a target go-live date of July 4, 2026, America's 250th birthday. The reactor has already been physically transported to Emery County, Utah, with logistical support from the U.S. military. Four executive orders issued under the Trump administration provided a mandate supporting the project's accelerated deployment timeline.

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 

The Production Quality Admin exists to keep quality execution on the production floor organized, traceable, and closed out completely. This role works directly within the Production Quality organization, supporting Production Quality Supervisors and Engineers by ensuring that records, nonconformances, CAPAs, and cross-functional follow-up items connected to production execution are captured accurately, progressed on time, and never lost in the shuffle of a fast-moving manufacturing environment. This is not an inspection role, a technician role, or a quality engineering role. It is a production-floor execution and system-integrity role focused specifically on the records and workflows generated by production quality activities. Production execution at Valar moves quickly, with evolving work instructions, distributed verification, and aggressive build schedules. This role sits within the Torrance manufacturing and fuel fabrication environment, supporting Production Quality Supervisors and Engineers directly on the production floor. The challenge is not defining what production quality requires—it is ensuring that what is supposed to happen on the floor, what actually happens, and what can be proven all line up, without slowing production down.

Key Responsibilities 

• Operate directly alongside production quality personnel on the floor
• Maintain traceability, documentation, and execution discipline for production records
• Drive production-related nonconformances, CAPAs, and quality actions to closure
• Coordinate follow-up across Production, Operations Quality, and Engineering without creating bottlenecks
• Maintain and verify build records, material traceability, and process verification documentation generated during production.
• Ensure required documentation and objective evidence for production activities exists, is accurate, and is retrievable.
• Process production-related nonconformances, including documentation, classification, and assignment.
• Track CAPAs tied to production execution through to closure, confirming actions are completed and evidence is captured.
• Work directly with Production Quality Supervisors, Quality Engineers, Operations, and Engineering to ensure production quality requirements are understood, executed, and documented.
• Follow through across teams until production quality issues are fully resolved.
• Ensure production quality issues are clearly documented, properly classified, and progressed.
• Drive issues to closure, confirming outcomes are verified before records are closed out.
• Support internal and external audits touching production by preparing records, verifying completeness, and coordinating responses.
• Ensure production-related audit findings are tracked, addressed, and closed.
• Identify recurring gaps or inefficiencies in production quality workflows.
• Provide feedback to Production Quality Supervisors/Engineers, the QMS Architect, and CI/OPEX to improve system performance.

Basic Qualifications  

• Strong ability to organize, track, and follow through on open items without losing sight of the bigger system.
• High attention to detail while keeping pace with active production schedules.
• Ability to understand how production processes connect, how data flows between them, and how actions on the floor impact downstream work.
• Comfortable working across Production, Operations, and Engineering.
• Able to ask clear questions, follow up persistently, and drive alignment without formal authority.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced production environments with evolving priorities and incomplete systems.
• Able to prioritize effectively under changing conditions.
• Ability to work within digital systems, databases, and tracking tools.
• Familiarity with structured workflows and documentation systems is preferred.

What We Offer  

• Competitive base salary 
• Equity ownership in a rapidly growing advanced energy company 
• 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 
• 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).