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About the Role
Phoenix Tailings is seeking controls and automation professionals for future opportunities at its Rochester Freedom Facility. The Controls and Automation team will ensure the accuracy, availability, and usability of the plant's measurement and control systems, supporting PLCs, HMIs, alarms, sensors, and instrumentation. This role offers the chance to solve control logic and communications problems and help operators effectively run the plant.
Responsibilities
- Develop and support PLC logic, HMI displays, alarms, and operating trends for reliable operator visibility and control.
- Verify sensors, instrumentation, field wiring, and process signals through calibration checks, I/O checkout, and commissioning tests.
- Troubleshoot control logic, industrial communications, and instrument problems by comparing system data with field conditions.
- Support equipment checkout and startup with operations and IT, testing automated responses and clarifying plant-network and control-system issues.
- Maintain control narratives, instrument records, I/O lists, and as-built documentation for understanding and support.
Requirements
- Degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related field, or equivalent industrial automation experience with relevant technical training.
- Hands-on experience programming or troubleshooting PLCs and supporting HMI or SCADA applications, including alarms, trends, and operator interfaces.
- Working knowledge of process instrumentation, sensor calibration, field wiring, and industrial communications for plant equipment control.
- Ability to perform equipment checkout and commissioning tests.
- Ability to read electrical or control drawings.
- Ability to document faults and system changes clearly.
Skills
- PLC programming
- HMI development
- SCADA applications
- Alarms
- Trends
- Operator interfaces
- Process instrumentation
- Sensor calibration
- Field wiring
- Industrial communications
- Equipment checkout
- Commissioning tests
- Control logic troubleshooting
- Communications troubleshooting
- Documentation
Location
- Rochester, New York
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Not specified
Education Level
- Degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Mechatronics, or related field, or equivalent industrial automation experience with relevant technical training
Salary/Compensations
- $80,000 - $150,000 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, including electric vehicles, wind turbines, robotics, advanced electronics, aerospace systems, and defense applications.
- Building more rare earth processing and separation capacity in the United States is important for strengthening domestic supply chains, reducing reliance on foreign processing, and supporting key industries.
- The Freedom Facility is designed to produce thousands of tons of separated rare earth oxides annually.
- 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 include: Say what you think even when it’s uncomfortable, Lead with Compassion, Be Resourceful, Listen, and 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).