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About the Role
Phoenix Tailings is seeking analytical chemistry professionals for future opportunities at its Rochester Freedom Facility. Analytical Chemists will provide essential chemistry data to control rare earth recovery, process stability, and product quality. This role involves operating ICP-OES and XRF, maintaining analytical methods, and reporting results to support a new operating team.
Responsibilities
- Prepare and analyze process and product samples to assess rare earth recovery, separation performance, and oxide quality.
- Operate or coordinate ICP-OES and XRF testing, selecting established methods appropriate to the sample and the operating question.
- Maintain analytical methods, reference standards, calibration, and quality-control checks so results are consistent and suitable for operating decisions.
- Review sample inconsistencies and unexpected results, checking preparation, instrument performance, and test records before reporting findings.
- Report analytical results clearly to operations and engineering while maintaining traceable laboratory records and safe reagent and sample-handling practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related technical field.
- Hands-on analytical laboratory experience through academic or industrial work, including sample preparation and ICP-OES, XRF, or related instrumental methods.
- Knowledge of calibration, reference standards, method consistency, and quality-control checks, with the ability to recognize unreliable or unexpected results.
- Strong data accuracy and documentation skills and the ability to communicate chemistry results clearly while handling laboratory chemicals and samples safely.
Skills
- ICP-OES
- XRF
- Analytical method maintenance
- Calibration
- Quality control
- Data documentation
- Chemical sample handling
Location
- Rochester, New York
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Entry-level to Mid-level
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $70,000-$110,000 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: Say what you think even when it’s uncomfortable, Lead with Compassion, Be Resourceful, Listen, Hustle.
- 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).