Senior Supplier Quality Manager

We need to produce HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually we need to follow rules: Use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading. Do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short

or drop it. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. IMPORTANT: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. Output ONLY the HTML fragment — no /, no markdown code fences. We need to extract content: The posting includes sections: About Valar Atomics (intro), The Team, The Role (description), Key Responsibilities (list), Basic Qualifications (list), Preferred Skills and Experience (list), What We Offer (benefits), Salary (Pay). Also maybe "About Valar Atomics" could be considered "About the role"? But they said use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to map content accordingly. We have: - About Valar Atomics: description of company mission, team, etc. Could be "About the role"? Actually "About the role" is more about the position description. The posting includes "The Role As Senior Supplier Quality Manager...". That is the role description. So we can have

About the role

with paragraphs describing the role. - Responsibilities: Key Responsibilities list. - Requirements: Basic Qualifications list. - Qualifications: maybe Preferred Skills and Experience? Could be "Qualifications" for basic, and "Skills" for preferred? But they said we can have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide which to include based on content. We have Basic Qualifications (Bachelor's degree, 10+ years experience, etc.) That's "Requirements" or "Qualifications". We'll put under

Requirements

. Preferred Skills and Experience: could be under

Skills

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Qualifications

. Since they separate Qualifications and Skills, we can put basic qualifications under Requirements, and preferred under Skills. Benefits: "What We Offer" includes competitive base salary, equity ownership, comprehensive medical benefits, unlimited PTO, free daily lunch and dinner, generous PPE stipend, high-impact startup environment, opportunities for rapid career growth, direct collaboration, opportunity to help build... Also they gave Salary range separately. So Benefits section should list those non-pay benefits. Pay: Salary range: $190,000 USD - $240,000 USD. Schedule: Not mentioned, so we should NOT include Schedule section. We also need to include maybe a short paragraph for metadata like location? Not given. The posting mentions pilot plant in Orangeville, Utah, but not explicitly location for role. Could be implied. But we should not invent. We can include location if present: "Our first pilot plant in Orangeville, Utah". That's about company, not role. Could be included in About the role? Might be okay to include as part of About Valar Atomics. But we need to avoid boilerplate. It's substantive. We need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to include the company description, team description, role description, responsibilities list, basic qualifications list, preferred skills list, benefits list, pay. We must not include EEO statement, legal, etc. Remove that. We must not include duplicated lines. We must not include application instructions. We must not include cookie/navigation. We need to output only HTML fragment. Let's craft:

About the role

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.

That seems to capture the role description. Now Responsibilities:

Responsibilities

• 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):

Requirements

• 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 Skills (Preferred Skills and Experience):

Skills

• 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):

Benefits

• 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:

Pay

Salary: $190,000 USD - $240,000 USD

We should not include Schedule. We also might include a short paragraph about location? Not required. The posting mentions "Our first pilot plant in Orangeville, Utah". That's part of About Valar Atomics. Could be included in About the role? But we already have About the role focusing on role description. Could add a separate About the company section? Not in allowed headings. But we could incorporate that info into About the role paragraph as a brief note. However the instructions: "Use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." They gave examples but not strict list; we can use those headings. They didn't forbid other headings, but they said use those for section headings. Probably we should stick to those. The company description could be placed under About the role as part of the role description? Might be okay. But we already have a long About the role paragraph that didn't mention location. We could add a sentence: "Valar Atomics is building its first pilot plant in Orangeville, Utah, where advanced nuclear systems and fuel fabrication will be demonstrated." That is substantive and not boilerplate. Let's