Manufacturing Associate (Pageland Ops)

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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.

REQUIREMENTS:

• High School diploma or GED
• Manufacturing experience preferred

*It is ATI's policy to not provide immigration sponsorship for any of the company's positions.

ATI and its subsidiary companies will provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other status protected be federal or state law. The company will provide reasonable accommodations to allow an applicant to participate in the hiring process if so requested.