Hot Side Technician - 2nd Shift

United States·BessemerHourly - Replacementmid

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Why Join Our Team? Do you want to be part of a team that is making a positive difference in lives all across the globe? Do you want to be part of a culture where you are recognized, respected, and rewarded for a job well done? U.S.

Key Responsibilities

Ensure that slag is cleaned from molten metal in the machine ladle and prevented from flowing off the machine ladle with molten metal during casting process. Perform relief duties trough man, oven charger, and ladle car operator.

Requirements Summary

High school diploma or GED required Production experience preferred. Ability to work safely. Possess good written and verbal communication skills.

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Do you want to be part of a team that is making a positive difference in lives all across the globe? Do you want to be part of a culture where you are recognized, respected, and rewarded for a job well done? U.S. Pipe has been providing quality water and wastewater products since 1899, and for the past 120 years we have proudly supported local governments, municipalities, water departments, and businesses all across the United States, and the world.

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This position will be responsible for cleaning and preparing the trough to maintain an adequate supply of molten metal in the machine ladle; to pour molten metal from treating ladles into transfer ladles and relieve oven charger in accordance with scheduled relief breaks.

Responsibilities

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→Ensure that slag is cleaned from molten metal in the machine ladle and prevented from flowing off the machine ladle with molten metal during casting process.
→Perform relief duties trough man, oven charger, and ladle car operator.
→Charge pipe in the annealing oven; operate casting machine to produce good quality pipe; assist casting machine operator with set-up for cast cycle and with other duties related to casting of large diameter pipe.
→Maintaining dry spray and blackening levels.
→Maintaining alloy levels for the large diameter and transfer ladles.
→Provide relief for iron pourers as needed as well as perform trough man duties, if needed.
→Maintain water cooler levels.
→Operate fork truck for various lifts as required as well as operate scrap truck as needed.
→Line and repair linings for ladles, trough chutes, ducks nest, stirrer beams, stirrer beam covers and burner top covers.
→Produce good quality cores for the large diameter pipe casting process, coat cores with blacking mixture; visually inspect cores for defects and maintain a proper mixture.
→Load finished cores into baskets; operate light forklift to deliver baskets of cores to the casting machines in casting department and furnish core pick-off operators with empty baskets and place full core baskets in stock.
→Assist with the core tooling cleaning operations in small diameter and large diameter core rooms; perform as well as general clean-up duties in the core rooms.
→Set up and operate machine to produce cores; visually inspect cores for defects, remove fins from core surface when present and record core production and delays per hour and per shift on standard forms.