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Control Room Operator at Phoenix Tailings

Control Room Operator

Phoenix Tailings · NY, US

2 days ago

Control Room Operator

Phoenix Tailings · NY, US

2 days ago
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About the Role

Phoenix Tailings is seeking experienced operators for future Control Room Operator opportunities at its Rochester Freedom Facility. Control Room Operators will monitor plant conditions, evaluate alarms, direct field operators, and coordinate with automation support. This role offers the chance to help build a new operating team and connect control room information with field actions.

Responsibilities

  • Monitor plant conditions through the human-machine interface, alarms, and operating trends to maintain visibility across the separations circuit
  • Evaluate alarms and changing trends, prioritize field checks, and coordinate operating responses within approved procedures and technical direction
  • Direct field operators by radio to inspect equipment, verify instrument readings, and complete approved adjustments, confirming the resulting plant response
  • Coordinate with Controls and Automation when sensors, displays, communications, or control responses appear inconsistent with field conditions
  • Maintain clear operating records and shift handoffs, escalating unresolved process deviations and equipment concerns to engineering and shift leadership

Requirements

  • High school diploma or equivalent
  • Experience in chemical, refinery, water-treatment, or other continuous-process operations
  • Experience serving as a senior operator or supporting control room operations
  • Understanding of how changes in one area affect the wider process
  • Ability to interpret HMI displays, alarms, and process trends, compare them with field observations, and recognize abnormal or unreliable readings
  • Sound operating judgment
  • Clear radio communication
  • Ability to coordinate field actions and document decisions during changing plant conditions

Skills

  • Human-machine interface (HMI) operation
  • Alarm evaluation
  • Process trend analysis
  • Radio communication
  • Operating record maintenance
  • Shift handoff procedures

Location

  • Rochester, New York

Work Type

  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • Experienced operators

Education Level

  • High school diploma or equivalent
  • Process-technology training is highly valued

Salary/Compensations

  • $36/hr-$50/hr

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.
  • The Freedom Facility will be designed to produce thousands of tons of separated rare earth oxides annually, making Rochester an important part of Phoenix Tailings' expansion of domestic rare earth processing capacity.
  • 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).