Plant Superintendent

Plant Superintendent

EnergyX is a leader in the global transition to sustainable energy, pioneering its proprietary GET-Lit™ Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) technology platform that delivers battery-grade lithium faster, cleaner, and with a smaller footprint than conventional evaporation methods. Our America flagship lithium project, Lonestar™ located in the Smackover Region of Texarkana, TX commissioned the largest DLE plant in the U.S. in Q1 2026. Backed by a $5M U.S. DOE grant, EnergyX is on a mission of taking lithium "From Brine to Battery™" and building America's domestic critical minerals supply chain.

The Plant Superintendent is located in Texarkana, TX, onsite at the Lonestar™ Demonstration Plant. The position will own daily production and production standards at the DLE lithium extraction and production facility, serving as the single point of accountability to executive leadership for safe, efficient, and consistent plant output as the site scales from Demonstration to Commercial operations. This role sits at the intersection of hands-on shift leadership and disciplined operational management: the Superintendent will run the floor, while also owning the data, reporting, and continuous-improvement systems that prove out the plant's performance for internal leadership, project financing, and future FEL estimates. This is a production-focused role; it does not carry engineering/FEL estimating or capital project execution responsibilities, which remain with the Project/Engineering team.

This is a contract position due to last through November 2026 (but work may continue after this period). Looking for candidates who reside near the Texarkana area.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own safety, plant uptime, throughput, quality, and lithium recovery/production standards against established targets for the Texarkana Demonstration / Commercial facility.
• Assign daily tasks, workstations, and shift coverage to operators to ensure continuous, efficient plant operation.
• Manage scheduling, attendance, and timecard submission/approval for all contract and direct-hire operators.
• Serve as the on-site escalation point for process upsets, equipment malfunctions, and operational troubleshooting.
• Own data collection, quality checks, and daily/weekly production reporting for the plant, feeding into company-wide and executive dashboards.
• Establish and maintain a data-driven performance tracking process that monitors efficiency and efficacy against production standards.
• Identify process deviations and drive root-cause troubleshooting and corrective action with operators and technical staff.
• Partner with Engineering to translate demonstrated production data into insights that support future FEL-3/DFS estimating and commercial scale-up planning (Lonestar and other ktpa-scale projects).
• Maintain a safe, clean, and organized facility in full compliance with EnergyX EHS standards and all applicable federal, state, and local regulations.
• Enforce QA/QC standards for production output and process consistency.
• Oversee approval and ordering of equipment, spare parts, and consumables required for uninterrupted plant operation.
• Manage vendor/subcontractor coordination for equipment service, calibration, and delivery timelines.

Qualifications:

Required

• 5+ years of production/operations supervisory experience in a chemical processing, mineral extraction, refining, or related industrial plant environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing production schedules, shift staffing, and contract labor.
• Working knowledge of process data collection, reporting, and KPI/dashboard tracking.
• Strong understanding of plant safety programs (OSHA, EHS) and hands-on experience maintaining compliance in an industrial setting.
• Ability to work on-site in Texarkana, TX, including flexibility for extended hours during commissioning, start-up, or process troubleshooting.

Preferred

• Experience in lithium, brine chemistry, direct lithium extraction (DLE), mining, or battery materials production.
• Experience supporting or transitioning a plant through Pilot → Demonstration → Commercial scale-up.
• Familiarity with FEL/FS/FEED project stage-gating (not required to produce estimates, but able to supply accurate operating data to those who do).
• Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, Industrial Technology, or related field, or equivalent hands-on plant experience.

What Success Looks Like

• Consistent, documented achievement of plant production and recovery targets.
• Zero lost-time safety incidents; strong EHS audit results.
• Reliable, accurate production data flowing into company dashboards with minimal rework.
• A trained, cross-functional operator team capable of covering all workstations with minimal downtime.
• Smooth, on-schedule support of the plant's progression toward commercial-scale operation.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage after 60 days
• 401(k) available after 60 days

EnergyX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with EnergyX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.