Staff Electrical Designer

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   You will be joining Valar Atomics' Instrumentation, Control & Electrical (IC&E) organization, supporting design work across the Reactor, Nuclear Fuel, Power Conversion, and Power Distribution areas. Electrical Designers own the drawing packages that define the physical electrical and instrumentation installation one-lines, schematics, wiring and loop diagrams, cable and raceway layouts, panel arrangements, and installation details. You will work alongside electrical, I&C hardware, I&C software, process, mechanical, and nuclear safety engineers in a hands-on environment where drawing quality and installation integrity directly support plant reliability and nuclear safety. As a staff designer, you will be one of the technical anchors of this team: the designer others come to when the package is novel, ambiguous, or high-consequence. The team values technical depth, disciplined documentation, and a safety-first culture.  The Role Valar Atomics is seeking Staff Electrical Designers to serve as technical authorities for electrical and instrumentation design across the full plant scope: Reactor, Nuclear Fuel, Power Conversion, and Power Distribution. This is a staff position: in addition to producing and owning the most complex drawing packages, you will own assigned areas of the CAD standards and design database architecture the discipline runs on, help run the drawing checking program, lead design solutions for first-of-a-kind installation challenges, review and approve the work of other designers and drafting contractors, and mentor the designer team. You are accountable not only for your own drawings, but for the quality and consistency of the drawing packages issued within your assigned scope, across projects and sites.  Key Responsibilities   Technical Leadership and Discipline Ownership   Serve as a design discipline technical authority within assigned scope; check and approve drawing packages produced by other designers and drafting contractors, and share ownership of the discipline's drawing checking program including check standards, checker qualification, and check documentation.  Own assigned areas of the discipline's CAD standards including drawing templates, title blocks, symbol libraries, layer conventions, and model/drawing file organization; enforce standards across all internal and contractor-produced drawings and drive convergence across projects and sites.  Own assigned areas of the EPLAN and AVEVA Electrical database architecture, including project structures, master data (devices, cables, symbols), report and deliverable templates, and the practices that keep database-driven deliverables, cable schedules, load lists, and wiring reports consistent and trustworthy.  Lead design solutions for first-of-a-kind and unconventional installation challenges, unusual routing, separation, and environmental constraints without established precedent, developing the design approach, installation details, and constructability strategy.  Define the drawing production strategy for assigned programs including internal versus contractor drafting allocation, package sequencing against construction need dates, and contractor drafting oversight.  Mentor senior and junior designers; develop designer training and qualification practices; contribute to hiring and technical interviewing for the design team.  Design Execution   Produce and own the most complex electrical and instrumentation drawing packages across Reactor, Nuclear Fuel, Power Conversion, and Power Distribution scopes one-lines, three-lines, schematics, wiring and interconnection diagrams, panel schedules, load lists, and motor elementaries.  Own cable and raceway design for assigned scope including cable schedules, sizing and voltage drop checks, tray and conduit routing, fill and derating, and signal/power segregation including approval of separation approaches for safety-related and non-safety circuits per project standards.  Own control panel and enclosure design consistent with UL 508A practice, grounding, bonding, and lightning protection layouts, hazardous area classification drawings (NEC Article 500/505 or IEC 60079), and instrument installation deliverables developed with I&C hardware engineers.  Lead 3D model coordination for electrical and I&C scope including clash resolution, routing and clearance decisions, and model-based drawing extraction practice; own the resolution of interdisciplinary routing conflicts with piping, structural, mechanical, and HVAC designers.  Approve bills of material and material take-offs; support requisitions and procurement technical evaluations for cable, raceway, panels, and installation hardware.  Field, Construction, and Turnover   Lead field walkdowns for constructability, routing verification, and existing conditions; own the as-built program for electrical and I&C drawings, including redline capture standards and turnover documentation quality.  Own the review and disposition of vendor drawing packages, contractor shop drawings, and installation deliverables for compliance with project standards and nuclear quality requirements.  Own the design-side response to construction and commissioning: RFI resolution, field change documentation, and punch list closure for electrical and I&C drawing scope.  Own drawi