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# Maintenance Technician at Antora Energy

- **Company:** Antora Energy
- **Location:** Big Stone City, SD
- **Posted:** 2025-05-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/antora/jobs/5542446004

## Job description

Antora Energy delivers affordable, reliable energy to industry, data centers, and the grid. Our thermal batteries turn low-cost electricity into always-on heat and power, without supply-constrained critical minerals or multi-year construction timelines.

We are growing our company with people who put team and mission first, value connection through laughter and joy, and work with humility and openness. We are committed to building a diverse, passionate, and creative team dedicated to a future powered by abundant, clean, low-cost energy.

Position Summary

The Maintenance Technician performs mechanical and/or electrical maintenance on plant equipment to ensure optimal efficiency, reliability, and overall facility condition.

Responds to call-outs as needed to maintain plant availability. Responsible for the repair, replacement, installation, and removal of modules, subassemblies, pumps, motors, fans, and related systems. Duties include: inspecting maintenance clearances, troubleshooting, disassembling, reassembling, and replacing equipment components, as well as monitoring equipment performance and analyzing operating data. While primarily focused on corrective maintenance, they will also support preventive maintenance activities, including troubleshooting and assisting with procedure development and spare parts recommendations.

Supports planning efforts and inventory control by following proper requisition procedures for tools, parts, and supplies. Prepares reports as required by management and plant protocols. Maintains compliance with all local, state, and federal regulations, and ensures adherence to plant safety and operational procedures. Actively promotes and maintains a safe and orderly work environment.

Roles & Responsibilities

- Serves as a go-to resource in mechanical job scopes, with a broad knowledge that may also span related functions.
- Diagnose and repair equipment malfunctions or material failures in high-temperature environments.
- Support in module maintenance procedures including: roof removal, heater rebuilds, heater exchanges, and module reassembly.
- Disassemble, repair, and reassemble pumps, fans, gearboxes, and mechanical linkages as needed. Replace worn or damaged parts (e.g., bearings, seals, gaskets, belts, shafts).
- Delivers high-quality work, often reviewing and verifying the work of others to ensure advanced technical standards are met.
- Accountable for tasks where errors can have significant consequences and may not be subject to direct oversight.
- Support mechanical installation and retrofitting of new equipment, piping changes, or material improvements.
- Resolves highly technical issues with guidance, occasionally consulting with team leadership, and serves as a resource for peers facing similar challenges.
- May coordinate and support others in completing assignments within defined schedules and priorities.
- Frequently delivers hands-on training and mentorship in specialized technical areas to other team members

## Key Qualifications

- High school diploma or equivalent; completion of technical/vocational training is strongly preferred.
- Professional with 5+ years of directly related experience, including a solid understanding of health and safety regulations.
- Experience working in environments involving hazardous energy, chemicals, and waste materials, with demonstrated knowledge of safe handling, storage, and transportation practices.
- Foundational understanding of mechanical processes to support operation and maintenance of plant systems, including: boilers, pumps, motors, shaft alignment, seals, and valves embling

Additional Qualifications Desired

- Hands-on experience with maintenance of industrial steam boilers, battery storage systems, and high temperature fluid loops
- Technical expertise may span across mechanical, electrical, and/or instrumentation and control (I&C) maintenance disciplines.
- Proficient in welding and/or operating machine tools such as lathes and mills.
- Experience with high, medium, and low voltage power systems
- Experience with boiler operations and steam systems

This role will require work that is conducted outdoors, which could include extreme heat or cold weather conditions.

Work Location:  Onsite - Big Stone City, South Dakota

Salary Range:  $30-35/hr

Salary Basis:  Hourly + OT offered

Relocation assistance, is available. In addition to a competitive hourly rate, Antora Energy’s Total Rewards program includes equity compensation in the form of stock options, a premium health benefits package with life and disability insurance, a 401K plan with employer contributions, flexible spending accounts, and an industry leading paid-time-off policy that features flexible and inclusive holiday observance, as well as paid volunteer time off.

#LI-Onsite https://diversityjobs.com/employer/top-diversity-employers?utm_campaign=TopEmployer&utm_medium=badge  When it comes to stopping climate change, we need everyone. We believe that having a diversity of backgrounds and experiences strengthens all of us, and we strive to create an environment where every one of us is empowered to create meaningful change.

## About Antora Energy

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Antora Energy manufactures and deploys modular thermal batteries that convert low-cost, intermittent clean electricity into reliable, always-on heat and power for global industrial facilities and data centers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: San Jose, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Justin Briggs, Andrew Ponec, David Bierman

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Renewable Energy Power Generation, Thermal Energy Storage, Industrial Decarbonization
- **Target customers**: Large-scale industrial energy users (biofuels, refining, pulp & paper, steel & iron, chemicals, mining, concrete & lime, food & beverage) and data center operators (B2B, Enterprise).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “We are here to power global industry with clean energy.” The company aims to make cheap, clean energy the standard that powers global industry.

## Products & Services
- **Thermal Battery System**: A modular, factory-built energy storage system that uses solid carbon (one of the safest, most stable materials on earth) to store surplus clean electricity as heat. It delivers always-on heat and power for industrial operations, scales from megawatts to gigawatts, and is designed for low cost, rapid deployment, and massive scale.
- **Project Big Stone**: One of the largest battery storage systems in the world, deployed in under 12 months for POET, the world’s largest biofuels producer. It delivers affordable, reliable energy and serves as a proof-of-concept for the company’s giga-scale deployment model.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$220.0M** across 10 rounds, including a $150M Series B led by Decarbonization Partners (Feb 2024). Annual revenue estimated at **$7.7M**.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Decarbonization Partners, National Science Foundation, California Energy Commission. Key partner: POET (biofuels).
- **Growth Signals**: 197 employees (+36.6% YoY), 31,700 LinkedIn followers (+42.9% YoY), active job postings up 140% YoY. The company is building gigawatt-hours of thermal batteries annually at its U.S. factory and has a presence in Spain.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Technology**: Uses solid carbon thermal storage—a simple, safe, and low-cost material—to provide both heat and power, differentiating from chemical battery or molten salt solutions.
- **Modular & Factory-Built**: Modules are manufactured in a U.S. factory, enabling rapid deployment, seamless integration, and operational redundancy at any scale.
- **Speed to Market**: Project Big Stone advanced from an empty lot to energy delivery in under 12 months, demonstrating a fast deployment model that can be replicated globally.
- **Multi-day Storage**: Provides reliable energy for industrial operations where downtime is not an option, solving the intermittency problem of renewables.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale and Replicate**: Replicating the Project Big Stone model at factories and data centers across the U.S. and globally.
- **Giga-scale Manufacturing**: Expanding factory capacity to produce gigawatt-hours of thermal batteries each year, with a focus on American manufacturing.
- **Market Expansion**: Targeting hard-to-abate industrial sectors (steel, cement, chemicals) and data centers, while expanding internationally (e.g., Spain).
- **Cost Leadership**: Driving down costs to make cheap, clean energy the standard for global industry.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: The company’s north star is to power global industry with clean energy, offering employees a chance to work on one of the most urgent climate challenges.
- **Culture**: Values include “Build with Humility & Openness,” “Team & Mission First,” and “Joy & Laughter Connect Us.” The company emphasizes kindness, collaboration, and learning from setbacks.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid/remote-friendly with “Home Week” each quarter to bring in-person and remote team members together. Offices in San Jose, CA; Big Stone City, SD; and remote roles in the U.S.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary, stock options, 401k match, 16 weeks paid parental leave, comprehensive medical/vision/dental, HSA with employer contribution, subsidized backup childcare/senior care/petcare, mental health support, on-site gym, healthy snacks, and volunteer time off.
- **Engineering & Impact**: Teams work on cutting-edge thermal storage, manufacturing, and field engineering. The company is growing fast (36% headcount growth) and offers the chance to shape a new industry.

## Sources
1. [antora.com](https://www.antora.com/)
2. [antora.com/company](https://www.antora.com/company)
3. [antora.com/careers](https://www.antora.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/antora-energy](https://www.linkedin.com/company/antora-energy)
5. [cbinsights.com/company/antora-energy](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/antora-energy)

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