As Senior Supplier Quality Manager, you will build and lead the Supplier Quality organization responsible for ensuring Valar’s external supply base delivers materials, components, special processes, and services that meet engineering, quality, and regulatory requirements as the company scales from prototype development to pilot operations and commercial deployment. This role reports to the Head of Quality with a dotted-line relationship to Procurement, preserving both operational integration and independence of oversight.
Valar is highly vertically integrated, but the supply base remains critical to mission success—spanning raw materials, fabricated components, machined hardware, special processes, calibration services, commercial equipment, and construction subcontractors. The challenge is not simply policing suppliers. It is building supplier capability, preventing escapes before they occur, and applying rigor through a risk-informed, graded approach that protects safety and quality without slowing execution.
You will lead and develop Supplier Quality Engineers, Supplier Auditors, Procurement Engineers, and Receiving Inspectors while owning supplier qualification, supplier development, supplier auditing, source and receiving inspection strategy, and the Procurement Engineering function. You will partner daily with Procurement, Engineering, Operations Quality, and Construction Quality to ensure technical and quality requirements are flowed down clearly, executed by suppliers, and verified with appropriate independence.
This is a founding leadership position within the Quality organization. You will operate hands-on today—qualifying suppliers, auditing facilities, dispositioning supplier nonconformances—while architecting the supplier quality systems, standards, and team required for high volume commercial-scale nuclear deployment.