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The Manufacturing Associate will perform a variety of tasks throughout the Pageland plant and acquire skills on the shop floor through cross training and job rotations. Associate will perform the summarized jobs listed below.

ESSENTIAL TASKS:

+ Material handling

Furnace Operator

+ Operate all anneal and leveler furnaces associated with the facility. Work from schedules, mill orders, written and verbal instructions to operate furnaces to heat material for conversion in a safe and economical manner.

+ Must be capable of performing every aspect of operating furnaces such as lighting, fuel selection, minimum/maximum controllable temperature, maximum rate of rise, maximum furnace load, minimum clearance from floors and walls, etc.

+ Acquire and maintain general working knowledge of the deviation limitations of particular materials and use judgment in operating furnaces so these limitations will not be exceeded.

+ Maintain all required work and material identification. Verify data collection to maintain logs, records and other paperwork that is required.

+ Operate as many furnaces as required to meet the production requirements, maintaining the same degree of control and monitoring as required on each furnace.

+ Responsible for staging and marking material for loading.

+ Detect and report any improper operation, defective material, or unusual conditions to proper supervision.

Grinder Operator

+ Operate automatic grinders to finish grind, spot grind, and grind plate to desired dimensional tolerances.

+ Work from mill orders and procedures to obtain specifications such as dimensions, tolerances, and other instructions to grind material to meet customer specifications.

+ Set-up and operate the grinder, grinder feed, and rotating table and auxiliary equipment.

+ Set-up includes proper setting of grinder wheel speed, feed rates, and head pressure control, holding fixture, clamps and turning apparatus.

+ Manually operate feeds and speeds to perform spot grinding operations.

+ Maintain logs and records covering starting weights and finish weights of material ground.

+ Change worn grinding wheels as necessary or for various grits and/or grades of alloy being ground.

+ Detect and report improper equipment operation or defective material to supervision.

Pickling Line

+ Schedules and assists with operation of pickling line to pickle, clean, coat, desensitize and/or de-copper material as required to meet specified requirements.

+ Maintains operating temperatures, concentrations and levels of solutions as required per operation specifications.

+ Operates valves and/or control devices to make up and maintain solutions according to specifications and to drain weak and /or dirty solution from tanks.

Final Shear

+ Identify plates by stamp number, and re-identify material as needed.

+ Accurately mark material for cut sizes, roll week number, transfer tags and circle stamp.

+ Read & acknowledge test samples to be sheared.

+ Responsible for maintaining accurate data in the Tandem System (interpret, record, accept, reject materials).

+ Responsible for setting knife up, maintain knives changes, and completing daily knives inspection.

+ Support preventative maintenance of machine by maintaining routine inspections, greasing, and oiling shear parts, and other activities as necessary.

Final Inspector

+ Perform a variety of non-destructive testing and inspection duties on high-temperature alloys following established methods and procedures.

+ Prepare and maintain all required records and reports in prescribed form and detail.

+ Identify alloy to insure ordered specifications.

+ Mark and identify defective items following accepted practices.

+ Check completed items for compliance with pertinent dimensional, hardness, material coding and identification, general hardness, and other specifications.

+ Release accepted materials for packing.

Shipping / Mark and Pack:

+ Work from mill orders, sales orders, purchase orders, and schedules to plan and execute packing and shipping of customer orders.

+ Work with all department areas to ensure proper documentation and compliance to specifications prior to shipment.

+ Separate previous day bill of ladings into individual copies.

+ Compile all documents from mill order traveler jackets for previous day shipments and distribute them to appropriate personnel.

+ Separate the previous days shipping weight tickets and distribute them to the appropriate personnel.

+ Responsible for proper loading, packaging, unloading, and securing of intracompany material transfers.

+ Read and understand purchase orders, bills of lading, and mill order travelers when receiving material.

+ Weigh material and record on shipping tag.

+ Visually inspect for conformance of product to customer requirements.

+ Complete packaging of metal to customer per special instructions and customer requirements.

+ Use computer system to begin and end operations following all mill and technical instructions.

+ Operate spectrotest alloy identification machine by using proper mode and grade of alloy.

+ Recalibrate machine with test samples on a routine basis and per quality control procedures.