valaratomics
Maintenance Technician
Orangeville, Utah · Mid
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PLCCommunicationSCADA
About the role
- The Maintenance Technician ensures safe, reliable, and compliant operation of the Valar Atomics TRISO Fuel Facility.
- This is a mid-level role requiring 3-7 years of industrial maintenance experience; ideally in a nuclear, chemical, or advanced manufacturing setting.
Responsibilities
- Perform scheduled preventive maintenance on CVD coater furnaces, calcining furnaces, sintering furnaces, chemical systems, and AWD units per approved work orders.
- Maintain gas feed systems including mass flow meters, gas lines, valves, and associated instrumentation (accuracy maintained to ±1 % FS).
- Perform maintenance on material-handling equipment
- issue calibration certificates and maintain records per equipment data sheets and P&IDs.
- Interpret instrument loop diagrams and PLC ladder logic to support fault isolation
- Identify, order, and manage critical spare parts inventory (heating elements, pyrometers, seals, etc.).
- Perform maintenance on material-handling equipment; disassemble and reassemble for radiological safety compliance.
- Execute instrument calibration tasks; issue calibration certificates and maintain records per equipment data sheets and P&IDs.
- Interpret instrument loop diagrams and PLC ladder logic to support fault isolation; liaise with controls engineers on SCADA/OIS issues.
Requirements
- 3-7 years of maintenance technician experience in a nuclear, chemical process, or precision manufacturing facility.
- Support configuration management by documenting modifications and updating maintenance procedures as required.
Nice to have
- This is a mid-level role requiring 3-7 years of industrial maintenance experience
- ideally in a nuclear, chemical, or advanced manufacturing setting.
Skills
- Ability to read and interpret P&IDs, instrument loop diagrams, wiring diagrams, and maintenance manuals.
- Familiarity with maintenance software for workorder creation and closure.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or U.S. person eligible to access HALEU material under DOE/NRC regulations.
- Strong written communication skills for procedure authoring and maintenance record-keeping.
- Experience maintaining CVD furnaces, high-temperature kilns, or gas-phase deposition equipment.
- Nuclear Maintenance qualification or radiological worker training.
- Experience with PLC-controlled process systems and OIS/SCADA interfaces (Allen-Bradley, Siemens).
- Familiarity with criticality safe geometry controls and ALARA work practices in uranium-processing environments.
- calibration, loop checking, 480 V industrial electrical systems.
- Preferred Skills and Experience
- Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
- Valar Atomics is an equal opportunity employer.
Benefits
- Demonstrates ownership of equipment health and proactively identifies deterioration before failure occurs.
Equal opportunity
- 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).
Visa & Work Authorization
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder).
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