Lead OT Engineer - Power Conversion

Description

The company builds clean, high-temperature nuclear power designed to scale for industry, hydrogen production, and next-generation manufacturing.

Its first pilot plant, in Orangeville, Utah, will show how advanced reactors and fuel fabrication can work together.

The team is made up of builders, engineers, and operators who take ownership of their work.

Instrumentation and Controls, part of Engineering, designs the systems that monitor, automate, and protect the company's facilities and reactors. The group builds control architectures for safe and efficient operation.

The company is young. Before its third anniversary, it designed, built, commissioned, and ran a DOE-authorized research reactor outside the national laboratory system.

Responsibilities

• Run the daily OT work plan for the power-conversion program, including team workload and delivery commitments.
• Link equipment, vendor, integration, and test dependencies into one coordinated plan that still works when schedules move.
• Support OT Engineering work covering power and rack infrastructure, compute, networks, identity, security, operational data, and industrial software platforms.
• Own the FactoryTalk scope: backend deployment, configuration, integration, and recovery.
• Sequence work around equipment availability, vendor deliveries, integration needs, test windows, and site readiness.
• Assign tasks, set expectations, coach people, give direct feedback, and address missed commitments within your delegated authority.
• Keep staffing and work plans realistic, and settle competing demands and resource gaps early.
• Coordinate infrastructure installation, commissioning support, maintenance, and handover with equipment and program stakeholders.
• Keep as-built structured cabling drawings for site and power-conversion network systems.
• Clear execution blockers, hold owners to agreed actions, and escalate constraints before they stall dependent work.
• Obtain engineering and acceptance decisions, then track implementation, testing, and records through to completion.
• Work in an organized way: track tasks closely, document accurately, set clear priorities, and follow through reliably.
• Stay calm and reprioritize when equipment, vendor, or test schedules change.
• Coach consistently, give candid feedback, and apply fair accountability.
• Spot dependencies and resource conflicts early and act quickly to keep work moving.
• Respect readiness and acceptance decisions even when delivery pressure rises.
• Strong contractor management skills, including experience leading a team that was mostly contractors for a period.

Requirements

• Direct people-management or supervisory experience, including making assignments, setting expectations, coaching, giving feedback, and holding people accountable for completion.
• Experience coordinating concurrent technical or operational work across specialists, vendors, resources, schedules, and dependencies.
• Ability to keep priorities clear, plans realistic, status and issue records accurate, and follow-through dependable under pressure.
• Experience clearing delivery obstacles, escalating serious issues, and handing work over against engineers' requirements and acceptance decisions within delegated authority.
• Ability to sequence equipment, vendor, integration, and testing dependencies with clear readiness and escalation decisions.
• Technical specialization is preferred but not required. Nontechnical people managers can qualify, and hands-on engineering work is not required.
• Preferred: experience leading delivery, commissioning, services, or maintenance on power-generation or heavy-equipment programs.
• Preferred: experience coordinating vendors, equipment interfaces, and site test schedules.
• Preferred: familiarity with industrial OT infrastructure or power-conversion equipment.

Conditions

Pay falls between $160,000 and $210,000 USD.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary.
• Equity ownership in a fast-growing advanced energy company.
• Comprehensive medical benefits.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Free lunch and dinner every workday, provided onsite.
• A generous PPE stipend.
• A startup setting with substantial ownership and autonomy.
• Room for rapid career growth and promotion from within.
• Day-to-day work alongside experienced operators, engineers, and industry leaders.
• The chance to help build and scale transformative energy technology from the ground up.