# Lab Technician

**Company:** [Mariana Minerals](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-companies/mariana-minerals)
**Location:** Moab, UT
**Work mode:** On-site
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Category:** Technician
**Department:** Operations
**Listed:** 2026-11-06

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## What you'll do

- Drive ore handling including crushing, sorting, and representative sampling
- Prepare samples using digestion, dilution, and filtration techniques
- Perform elemental analysis using ICP, NMR, XRF, or titrators
- Document results in laboratory information systems and maintain records
- Follow strict environmental, health, and safety protocols

## What you need

- Experience in minerals processing, metallurgy, or similar industrial environments
- Hands-on experience operating analytical or similar equipment
- Familiarity with chemical processing or crushing equipment
- Ability to read and follow SOPs and safety guidelines
- Commitment to safety, accuracy, and operational excellence

## Job description

### **About Mariana Minerals**

Mariana Minerals is a software-first, vertically integrated minerals company on a mission to supply the critical minerals powering modern energy, AI, and defense technologies. We’re reimagining the minerals supply chain by combining deep industry expertise with advanced software, automation, and data-driven decision-making.

As a Lab Technician, you'll support safe, efficient and high-quality process development studies and analytical tests. You'll work closely with R&D and engineering to build, operate and maintain ore leaching columns, and deliver timely, accurate and actionable chemical analysis of ore, process streams and final products. You'll play a critical role in bridging leaching research and lab analytics with plant operations, helping make sure processes are robust, efficient and ready for future development and scale-up.

**Responsibilities**

-   Drive ore handling, including crushing, sorting by particle size and taking representative samples
    
-   Prepare samples for analysis using techniques such as digestion, dilution and filtration
    
-   Perform elemental and compositional analysis of solid and liquid samples using ICP, NMR, XRF, titrators or similar analytical techniques
    
-   Document analytical results in laboratory information systems and maintain clear experimental records and material metrics using digital tools
    
-   Follow strict environmental, health and safety protocols
    

**Qualifications & Experience**

-   Experience in minerals processing, metallurgy, chemicals, specialty materials or similar industrial environments
    
-   Hands-on experience operating analytical or similar equipment
    
-   Familiarity with chemical processing (pumps, columns, instrumentation) or crushing equipment (crushers, grinders, conveyors, sorters)
    
-   Mechanical aptitude and ability to perform basic fabrication and troubleshooting
    
-   Ability to read and follow SOPs, equipment manuals and safety guidelines
    
-   Strong communication skills and willingness to collaborate across teams
    
-   Commitment to safety, accuracy and operational excellence
    

**Schedule** 7 days on / 7 days off, working 12-hour shifts

**Relocation assistance options are available**

**Working Environment & Physical Requirements**

-   Hands-on production lab at a working mine, not a clean lab
    
-   Regular exposure to dust, noise, acid fumes and mud
    
-   Ability to lift up to 50 lbs and stand for extended periods
    

### **Our culture is built on four principles:**

  

**Everyone Gets Home Safe.** We never put speed or cost ahead of people.

**Extreme Ownership.** We take full responsibility for outcomes, relentlessly driving toward solutions.

**Engineer Out Requirements, then Automate.** We simplify, optimize, and then automate for scale.

**Share Your Legos.** We collaborate openly, share knowledge, and empower each other to build bigger, better solutions.

  

**Join us as we build the future of responsible mineral sourcing and supply!**

## Other open roles at Mariana Minerals

- [Recruiting Coordinator](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/mariana-minerals/recruiting-coordinator-de08a0dd-0ed2-442c-81b4-529b28b4c856) — San Francisco HQ
- [Recruiting Coordinator](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/mariana-minerals/recruiting-coordinator-a391e5be-92f7-43cd-86bb-ebbf9a05de98) — Houston, TX
- [Workplace Manager](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/mariana-minerals/workplace-manager-3ae0d810-7760-4a1a-a016-7ee2d0c5f13d) — Houston, TX
- [Stacking/Sizer Operator](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/mariana-minerals/stacking-sizer-operator-e3d0977c-fcc8-4b97-b57e-577bd715e787) — Moab, UT
- [R&D Technician](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/mariana-minerals/r-d-technician-10981f0a-1672-4add-a3ba-fe5752df1686) — San Francisco HQ

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