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About the Role
Phoenix Tailings is seeking an experienced plant and operations leader to become the future Plant Director of its Rochester Freedom Facility, a commercial-scale rare earth separation operation. This role involves building and leading the operating organization, preparing the site and workforce for startup, and overseeing safety, production, quality, staffing, and overall plant performance.
Responsibilities
- Build and lead the site operating organization, establishing departmental responsibilities, staffing plans, and leadership routines for startup and sustained operations.
- Prepare the workforce and plant systems for commissioning and startup, coordinating readiness reviews and turnover with the capital projects organization.
- Establish operating procedures, workforce training, maintenance coordination, and performance systems needed for safe and reliable continuous production.
- Own site safety, environmental performance, product quality, and production results, ensuring operating priorities are supported by clear accountability.
- Manage site budgets and staffing against the operating plan, using cost, uptime, throughput, and quality information to guide decisions.
- Resolve production bottlenecks and reliability issues with operations, engineering, maintenance, and support teams, turning performance data into practical improvements.
- Develop site leaders and a working culture of safe execution, accurate reporting, operator capability, and timely follow-through on operating problems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Industrial Management, or a related field.
- Significant leadership experience in chemical manufacturing, refining, mining, metals, specialty chemicals, or another continuous-process industrial environment.
- Demonstrated success leading plant operations or a complex manufacturing organization with accountability for safety, quality, production, and operating performance.
- Experience supporting commissioning, facility startup, operational readiness, or major production scale-up, including coordination with project teams and equipment partners.
- Ability to build operating organizations, develop site leaders, and establish procedures and training systems for a growing workforce.
- Working knowledge of industrial safety, environmental performance, process equipment, maintenance reliability, and the controls needed for consistent production.
- Experience managing staffing and operating budgets and using production, cost, and reliability metrics to prioritize improvements in a developing facility.
Location
- Rochester, New York
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experienced
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $192,000-$280,000 per year
Benefits
- 100% Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employee
- Stock Options
- Unlimited PTO
- Learning and development opportunities
About the Company
- Phoenix Tailings is a rapidly growing clean mining and metals production startup focused on building a domestic supply of critical materials.
- Our Freedom Facility in Rochester, New York will be a commercial-scale rare earth separation facility designed to expand U.S. capacity to process and separate rare earth materials.
- Rare earths are essential inputs for many of the technologies that power modern life.
- Building more of this capability in the United States is important for strengthening domestic supply chains, reducing reliance on foreign processing, and supporting the advanced manufacturing, energy, technology, and national-security industries that depend on these materials.
- At Phoenix, we believe that nothing great is ever accomplished alone or without the passion of people who push and motivate one another.
- Our Values: You are only crazy if you are wrong, it's ok to be wrong - Say what you think even when it’s uncomfortable; Lead with Compassion - Show up for your teammates, make the people around you better; Be Resourceful - Find a way with what you have, don't wait for more; Listen - Understand before you act, ask good questions before deciding; Hustle - Put your heart into every interaction, no matter how small.
- We have an open culture that values learning, and we are looking to grow the team with enthusiastic individuals who share our vision of sustainable mining.
Equal Opportunity
- Phoenix Tailings, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we value diversity at all levels. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information, or any other applicable protected characteristics, and these characteristics will not be a factor for consideration of any work-related decisions (including but not limited to hiring, firing, compensation, and discipline).