Production Quality Supervisor

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 Production Quality Supervisor, you will lead day-to-day quality execution on the production floor supporting HTGR reactor component and fuel-related manufacturing activities. This role sits within the Torrance manufacturing and fuel fabrication environment.

This role sits directly within active production operations and is responsible for ensuring disciplined, traceable, and technically defensible manufacturing execution across build, assembly, test, and inspection activities. You will lead Production Quality Technicians and Inspectors while working closely with Production Quality Engineers, manufacturing leadership, operators, and Operations Quality leadership to ensure quality requirements are understood, executable, and consistently implemented under real-world production conditions.

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

Key Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day floor execution activities for the production quality organization supporting reactor component fabrication, assembly, testing, and controlled production execution.
• Supervise Production Quality Technicians and Inspectors while reinforcing disciplined execution, procedural compliance, technical rigor, and traceability integrity across all production quality activities.
• Coordinate inspection activities, hold points, in-process verification, and controlled workflows across manufacturing cells, work centers, and production disciplines.
• Provide quality oversight of production activities including material handling, fabrication, assembly, testing, and final inspection.
• Ensure build records, material traceability, inspection documentation, and controlled execution documentation remain accurate, complete, retrievable, and audit-ready.
• Support investigation and resolution of nonconformances, production discrepancies, workmanship concerns, procedural deviations, and technical documentation gaps.
• Work directly with manufacturing leadership, Production Quality Engineers, Operations, and Engineering to ensure technically defensible and operationally executable quality solutions.
• Help identify emerging execution risks, traceability gaps, process performance concerns, and operational weaknesses before they become major production impacts.
• Mentor and develop floor quality personnel while helping establish scalable production quality execution standards and verification discipline across the organization.
• Support Operator Verification Certification (OVC) implementation on the floor, coordinating with the Quality Department on certification, currency, and delegation of verification activities.
• Participate in internal audits of production quality processes and support external audit readiness.

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 production environments involving changing priorities, evolving designs, schedule pressure, and cross-functional coordination.
• You can effectively balance technical…