Mechanical and Piping Maintenance Technician
Phoenix Tailings
- Location
- Rochester, NY
- Work style
- On-site
- Job type
- Full time
- Posted
- Oct 19
- 3 days ago
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About the company
Phoenix Tailings
Mining & metals · 11 to 50 employees
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. They are used in high-performance permanent magnets found in electric vehicles, wind turbines, robotics, advanced electronics, aerospace systems, and defense applications. Today, much of the world's rare earth processing and separation capacity is concentrated overseas. 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.
What you'll do
- Develop and execute preventive-maintenance plans for pumps, valves, piping, and mechanical equipment, using inspection findings to address developing failures
- Inspect, troubleshoot, and repair chemical-service piping, plumbing, and mechanical systems, verifying equipment condition before returning it to operations
- Support equipment installation, checkout, and startup by identifying maintenance-access issues, checking mechanical readiness, and resolving equipment deficiencies
- Build critical-spares and vendor-support arrangements, identifying replacement parts and technical assistance needed to reduce equipment downtime
- Maintain equipment records, repair histories, and maintenance procedures, following isolation and permit requirements when performing plant work
What you need
- Technical training, an apprenticeship, or equivalent hands-on experience in industrial maintenance, millwright work, pipefitting, plumbing, or related mechanical trades
- Experience maintaining and repairing industrial pumps, valves, piping, and associated equipment, with an understanding of chemical-service maintenance considerations
- Ability to read mechanical drawings, piping diagrams, and equipment manuals and use appropriate hand tools, power tools, and diagnostic methods
- Ability to plan preventive maintenance, identify critical spares, document repairs, and apply safe equipment-isolation and work-permit practices
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