Proven to Perform. From the edges of space to the bottoms of ocean, our materials are proven to perform -- and so is our team. We're hiring high performers as proven as our products. Join us. 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.