Senior Supplier Quality Manager

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually we need to use headings for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include only sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate like EEO, legal, etc. Also remove navigation, cookie, etc. Also remove application instructions (none present). Must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have content: About Valar Atomics (intro), The Team, The Role description, Key Responsibilities, Basic Qualifications, Preferred Skills and Experience, What We Offer, Salary. We need to map to headings: About the role (maybe intro about role?), Responsibilities (Key Responsibilities), Requirements (maybe Basic Qualifications?), Qualifications (maybe Preferred Skills and Experience?), Skills (maybe Preferred Skills and Experience?), Benefits (What We Offer), Pay (Salary), Schedule (none). We should not create Schedule if not present. We must not duplicate content. Need to decide mapping. The posting includes: About Valar Atomics (company overview), The Team, The Role (description), Key Responsibilities, Basic Qualifications, Preferred Skills and Experience, What We Offer, Salary. We can create sections: - About the role: combine The Role description (maybe also The Team?). The instruction: use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we should have headings exactly those strings? Likely yes. Use those exact headings. Provide content under each. We need to decide what goes where. About the role: could include the description of the role (The Role paragraph) and maybe The Team? But The Team is about the organization. Could be part of About the role. We'll include both. Responsibilities: Key Responsibilities list. Requirements: Basic Qualifications (maybe also include willingness to travel etc). We'll put Basic Qualifications here. Qualifications: Preferred Skills and Experience. Skills: maybe we could also include some skills from Preferred? But we already have Qualifications. Could combine? But we need to avoid thin sections. Perhaps we can merge Qualifications and Skills into one? But headings are prescribed; we can omit sections if no real specific content. So we could omit Skills if we put those under Qualifications. However the instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we can omit Skills if we have covered skills elsewhere. But we need to ensure we don't lose any substantive info. Preferred Skills and Experience includes many items; we could put them under Qualifications (Preferred). Or we could have Qualifications for basic, Skills for preferred. That would be two sections, both substantive. That seems okay. Benefits: What We Offer list. Pay: Salary range. Schedule: none -> omit. We must not include boilerplate like EEO, legal, etc. Also remove "Equal Employment Opportunity Statement" and the following lines about citizenship, etc. Also remove "Applicants must be legally authorized..." etc. Also remove "Salary: $190,000 USD - $240,000 USD" maybe we keep in Pay section. We need to preserve all substantive info: company overview, team, role description, responsibilities, basic qualifications, preferred skills, benefits, salary. We must not repeat job title as heading. Not include Job ID. We must output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences. Let's craft. Structure:

About the role

... (company overview + team + role description)

Responsibilities

• ... each responsibility

Requirements

• ... basic qualifications items

Qualifications

• ... preferred skills and experience items

Benefits

• ... what we offer items

Pay

$190,000 USD - $240,000 USD base salary

We need to ensure we don't include filler like "competitive base salary" etc. We have "Competitive base salary Equity ownership..." etc. We'll list each benefit as separate

. Let's extract details. Company overview paragraph: "About Valar AtomicsAt 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." We need to add space after "At Valar Atomics". We'll just produce cleaned text. The Team paragraph: "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 paragraph: "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." We can combine these three paragraphs into About the role section. Now Responsibilities list: from "Key Responsibilities". Let's extract each bullet: - Build, lead, and develop the Supplier Quality organization, including Supplier Quality Engineers, Supplier Auditors, Procurement Engineers, and Receiving Inspectors. - Own the supplier qualification and approval process, including capability assessments, quality system evaluations, special process qualification, and maintenance of the Approved Supplier List. - Develop and execute a risk-based supplier audit program covering quality system audits, process audits, and source surveillance across fabrication, special process, and construction subcontractor suppliers. - Support and mentor the Procurement Engineering function, ensuring technical procurement requirements, critical characteristics, and acceptance and verification methods for procured items are clearly defined and technically defensible. - Define and continuously improve source inspection and receiving inspection strategy, applying graded rigor based on safety significance, complexity, and supplier performance. - Ensure engineering, quality, and regulatory requirements are accurately flowed down through purchase orders, specifications, and supplier quality clauses in partnership with Procurement and Engineering. - Lead resolution of supplier nonconformances and supplier corrective actions (SCARs), driving root cause analysis, corrective action verification, and prevention of recurrence. - Establish supplier performance monitoring, including scorecards, escape tracking, on-time quality metrics, and structured supplier development plans for critical or underperforming suppliers. - Support make/buy decisions, new supplier selection, and early supplier involvement to ensure manufacturability, inspectability, and quality requirements are addressed before hardware is committed. - Serve as a credible technical interface with suppliers, regulators, auditors, and customers on supplier quality matters, and support internal and external audits of the supplier quality program. - Help define and institutionalize scalable supplier quality systems, procedures, and training aligned with Valar's graded, risk-informed quality framework. Now Requirements (Basic Qualifications): - Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Materials Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Quality Engineering, or a related technical discipline. - 10+ years of experience in supplier quality, quality engineering, or manufacturing quality within regulated technical industries such as nuclear, aerospace, defense, power generation, semiconductor, or medical devices. - 5+ years of experience leading supplier quality teams, audit programs, or supplier development activities. - Demonstrated experience qualifying, auditing, and developing suppliers, including fabrication, machining, and special process suppliers (e.g., welding, NDE, heat treatment, coatings). - Strong working knowledge of purchase order quality flow-downs, supplier corrective action (SCAR) processes, nonconformance systems, and root cause analysis methodologies. - Ability to interpret engineering drawings, GD&T, specifications, and technical procurement requirements. - Willingness and ability to travel to supplier facilities and Valar sites, up to 50% at times, including extended stays during key build phases. Now Qualifications (Preferred Skills and Experience): - Direct experience with nuclear quality assurance programs and risk informed quality systems, including 10 CFR 50 Appendix B, 10 CFR Part 21, and ASME code procurement. - Hands-on experience establishing or leading a Procurement Engineering function, including definition of technical procurement requirements, critical characteristics, and acceptance methods for procured items. - Certified Lead Auditor (ISO 9001, AS9100, or equivalent) with experience leading supplier and third-party audits. - Familiarity with NADCAP special process accreditation, source inspection programs, and construction subcontractor quality oversight. - Experience with APQP/PPAP, first article inspection (AS9102 or equivalent), PFD, PFMEA, and process control plan review for supplier processes. - Experience building supplier quality organizations, systems, and Approved Supplier List governance within scaling or startup environments. - Familiarity with supplier performance analytics, scorecard systems, and data-driven supplier risk management. Now Benefits (What We Offer): - Competitive base salary - Equity ownership in a rapidly growing advanced energy company - Comprehensive medical benefits - Unlimited PTO - Free daily lunch and dinner provided onsite - Generous PPE stipend - High-impact startup environment with significant ownership and autonomy - Opportunities for rapid career growth and internal advancement - Direct collaboration with experienced operators, engineers, and industry leaders - The opportunity to help build and scale transformative energy technology from the ground up Now Pay: Salary range: $190,000 USD - $240,000 USD. We should not include "Competitive base salary" as separate benefit if we also have Pay section with range; but we can keep both; it's not duplicate? It's somewhat overlapping but okay. Could keep benefit list as is, and Pay section just the range. Now ensure we don't include any boilerplate like EEO, citizenship, etc. Also remove "Equal Employment Opportunity Statement" and following lines. Also remove "Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder)." Also remove "Salary: $190,000 USD - $240,000 USD" (we already used in Pay). Also remove any navigation etc. Now produce HTML. Make sure to use proper escaping? Not needed