Lead OT Engineer - Reactor

Description

The company develops clean, high-temperature nuclear power designed to be deployed quickly, built in a factory, and run in real conditions. Its first pilot plant is in Orangeville, Utah.

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

The Instrumentation & Controls team sits within Engineering. It designs the control architectures that monitor, automate, and protect the company's facilities and reactor technologies, with the aim of safe and efficient operation.

Responsibilities

• Own the daily OT work plan for the reactor program, including team workload and delivery commitments.
• Keep installation, testing, maintenance, and handoffs on track as site readiness and program priorities shift, setting clear expectations and following up calmly.
• Oversee OT Engineering work covering power and rack infrastructure, compute, networks, identity, security, operational data, and industrial software platforms.
• Manage the FactoryTalk scope, including backend deployment, configuration, integration, and recovery.
• Plan and rank reactor OT work against site access, installation readiness, test prerequisites, available resources, and agreed commitments.
• Assign work, set expectations, coach team members, give direct feedback, and deal with missed commitments within your delegated authority.
• Keep an up-to-date picture of site work, vendor activity, dependencies, and open issues, and revise the plan when conditions change.
• Coordinate installation, testing, maintenance, and turnover with engineers and site stakeholders.
• Maintain accurate as-built structured cabling drawings for site and reactor network systems.
• Clear obstacles, balance competing demands on the team, and escalate constraints before they put committed work at risk.
• Secure the required engineering and acceptance decisions, then track agreed work through verified completion and accurate handoff records.
• Manage contractors closely, including leading a team made up mostly of contractors for a period.
• Take clear ownership of daily commitments and adjust plans promptly when prerequisites or resources change.
• Confirm readiness conditions and get engineering direction before affected work goes ahead.

Requirements

• Have direct people-management or supervisory experience, covering assignments, expectations, coaching, feedback, and accountability for completion.
• Have experience coordinating concurrent technical or operational work that involves specialists, vendors, resources, schedules, and dependencies.
• Be able to keep priorities and realistic work plans clear, maintain accurate status and issue records, and follow through reliably under pressure.
• Have experience removing delivery obstacles, escalating serious 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.
• Technical specialization is preferred but not required. Nontechnical people managers can qualify, and hands-on engineering work is not expected.
• Preferred: experience leading installation, commissioning, maintenance, or test-facility work.
• Preferred: experience coordinating work across engineering, construction, operations, and vendors.
• Preferred: familiarity with OT infrastructure, controlled work processes, or facility testing.

Conditions

Base salary range is $160,000 to $210,000 USD.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary.
• Equity ownership in the company, an advanced energy business that is growing quickly.
• Comprehensive medical benefits.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Free lunch and dinner every day, provided onsite.
• Generous PPE stipend.
• Significant ownership and autonomy in a high-impact startup setting.
• Room for fast career growth and promotion from within.
• Direct work with experienced operators, engineers, and industry leaders.
• The chance to help build and scale energy technology from the ground up.