Energy Exploration Technologies has a mission to become a worldwide leader in the global transition to sustainable energy. Founded in 2018, the company is fundamentally changing the way humanity is powering our world and storing clean energy with breakthrough lithium-ion technology and energy storage solutions.
The Role
EnergyX seeks a contract IT Manager for up to a 3-month engagement to cover all IT operations. This is a hands-on, single-owner role: you run helpdesk, identity and access, licensing, and vendor management for roughly 150 users across the US and Chile. On-call work is expected. Full-time and part-time options available.
Key responsibilities:
Helpdesk and end-user support
Own the Genuity helpdesk queue; current volume is roughly 15–20 tickets closed per week.
- Handle password resets, authenticator re-registration, laptop and peripheral issues, and meeting-room AV.
- Source, quote, and configure replacement hardware within budget guidance
- Provision and deprovision accounts across Microsoft 365, Google Workspace
- Administer physical access control: keycards, badge numbers, badge photos, and door access.
- Provide remote support to the Chile team.
- Maintain the software license schedule (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, engineering licenses such as SysCAD and MetSIM).
- Manage vendor relationships and renewals
- Maintain office network and security cameras
- Support data-protection readiness
Qualifications
Required
- 5+ years in IT administration or IT management, including time as the sole or lead IT owner at a company of 100–300 users.
- Hands-on administration of Microsoft 365 (Entra ID, Intune, Teams) and Google Workspace.
- Endpoint management: Windows and macOS provisioning, domain join, asset tracking.
- Physical security systems: keycard access control and IP cameras (Verkada or similar).
- Working knowledge of networking (Ubiquiti or similar), DNS, and basic security hygiene, including phishing response.
- Comfortable managing vendors, quotes, and purchase approvals against a budget.
- Clear written reporting; able to start within two weeks and ramp in days, not weeks.
Preferred
- Experience supporting a remote international office; Spanish proficiency is a strong plus for the Chile team.
- Exposure to CMMC or NIST 800-171 compliance.
- Support for industrial or engineering environments (plant sites, engineering software licensing, wellsite connectivity).
Equal Employment Opportunity
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.
Skills Required
- 5+ years in IT administration or IT management, including experience as the sole or lead IT owner at a company with 100–300 users
- Hands-on administration of Microsoft 365, including Entra ID, Intune, and Teams
- Hands-on administration of Google Workspace
- Windows and macOS provisioning, domain joining, and asset tracking
- Experience with keycard access control and IP cameras such as Verkada or similar
- Working knowledge of networking, Ubiquiti or similar systems, DNS, and basic security hygiene including phishing response
- Vendor management, quoting, and purchase approvals against a budget
- Clear written reporting and ability to start within two weeks and ramp up quickly
- Experience supporting a remote international office
- Spanish proficiency
- Exposure to CMMC or NIST 800-171 compliance
- Experience supporting industrial or engineering environments, including plant sites, engineering software licensing, or wellsite connectivity
What We Do
EnergyX is a sustainable energy company focused on direct lithium extraction, refinery and battery technology. Combining these technologies from brine to battery will create a process dramatically lowering the cost of lithium resources. The company’s goal is to develop technology and assets that turn it into one of the premier, low-cost lithium providers for the growing lithium-ion battery industry. The electric vehicle (EV) and energy storage revolution is generating high demand for lithium, with some analysts forecasting orders-of-magnitude demand increases. As the EV market rapidly expands, millions of large-scale battery packs will be in demand. The estimated annual production of EV’s is 20,000,000 per year. For one 85-kWh car, the price of the lithium in the battery is approximately $2,945 per car. Residential (home) and commercial batteries are also gaining market demand traction, and California has implemented law stating by 2020 all new homes will require solar arrays. Companies already producing lithium are attempting to increase production as battery cell manufacturers are scaling up lithium-ion production with mega factories and actively acquiring raw materials through long term off-take supply agreements. In the Lithium Triangle, where 50-70% of the world’s known lithium reserve is located, current methods of extraction are based off outdated, natural evaporation pond technology, which takes 18 months, and loses 50-70% of the lithium due to co-precipitation. Our solution is to optimize and apply a highly scalable lithium extraction membrane to the process. The ability to efficiently extract and aggregate the lithium elements from the salt brines using proprietary, multi-level, synthetic ion separation techniques can increase time efficiency by 100x and recovery rate by 300%.
