Senior Metallization Equipment Technician

Phoenixtailings; Burlington (MA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare: 100% medical, dental, and视

Job summary

Phoenix Tailings is seeking an Engineering Technician in Burlington, MA to own metallization equipment. You will build, operate, troubleshoot, repair, and improve high-temperature systems that affect uptime and production quality.

Ideal candidates have strong mechanical instincts, can diagnose issues from data and physical evidence, and are comfortable lifting up to 50 pounds and wearing PPE. This role supports scaling sustainable, clean-metals production.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as an engineering, mechanical, maintenance, manufacturing, or industrial technician working directly with complex equipment.
• Strong TIG welding and fabrication skills, with ability to produce reliable tooling, repairs, and equipment modifications.
• Demonstrated experience assembling, diagnosing, repairing, and maintaining complex mechanical or electromechanical systems in an industrial, manufacturing, pilot-plant, or R&D environment.
• Strong mechanical aptitude and demonstrated ability to diagnose failures using equipment behavior, physical evidence, process information, and incomplete data.
• Ability to read and work from engineering drawings, mechanical schematics, fabrication drawings, equipment documentation, and technical specifications.
• Hands-on experience with industrial equipment such as machine tools, pumps, motors, piping systems, rigging, seals, furnaces, vessels, or material-handling systems.
• Ability to safely perform the physical requirements of the role, including lifting up to 50 pounds and wearing a respirator and other required personal protective equipment.

Responsibilities

• Build, install, commission, operate, maintain, and repair metallization cells and the mechanical and electromechanical systems required to run them safely and reliably.
• Diagnose equipment and process failures across furnaces, vessels, pumps, motors, piping, seals, cooling systems, material-handling equipment, and related industrial components.
• Perform precision assembly, alignment, calibration, inspection, and repair of high-power and high-temperature production equipment.
• Develop a deep working understanding of the metallization process and use equipment condition, operating parameters, material behavior, and production results to identify and resolve problems.
• Fabricate, modify, and repair tooling and production hardware using TIG welding, including learning specialized refractory-metal welding techniques used in Phoenix Tailings' metallization equipment.
• Use operating data, physical observations, equipment history, and failure evidence to determine root causes and implement practical corrective actions.
• Execute preventive and corrective maintenance that increases equipment uptime, extends component life, and reduces interruptions to production.
• Implement equipment modifications and upgrades that improve safety, maintainability, process consistency, and production capability as Phoenix scales its metallization technology.
• Maintain accurate equipment build records, drawings, schematics, maintenance histories, repair documentation, and technical observations that enable repeatable operation and future system improvements.

Skills

TIG welding

Mechanical instinct

Troubleshooting

Reading drawings

Equipment maintenance

Tools

TIG welding equipment

Fabrication tools

Measuring instruments

Job description

Phoenix Tailings is seeking an Engineering Technician in Burlington, MA to own metallization equipment. You will build, operate, troubleshoot, repair, and improve high-temperature systems that affect uptime and production quality.

Ideal candidates have strong mechanical instincts, can diagnose issues from data and physical evidence, and are comfortable lifting up to 50 pounds and wearing PPE. This role supports scaling sustainable, clean-metals production.