Melt Shop Attendant

LOCATION:

- Posted on Oct 8, 2025

- Cartersville, Georgia, United States

AREA:

Production & Operations

Starting pay $71000 / year -(includes base hourly rate plus, weekly production bonus, shift differential & Sunday premiums, and 354 annual scheduled overtime)

MANUFACTURING ASSOCIATE - MELT SHOP

Do you enjoy working with your hands? Are you detail-oriented with the ability to organize and prioritize? Do you like operating heavy mobile equipment? Join us as we empower the future.

WE HAVE:

- A strong global presence with steel mills that transform millions of metric tons of raw material to produce steel beams, flat-rolled steel, merchant bar, rebar, spikes, and wire used by the auto industry, appliance, construction, machinery, and equipment industries.

- A culture that welcomes diversity, encourages innovation, and creates products that serve humanity.

- An environment that values teamwork, safety, and sustainability.

- A commitment to continuous improvement and the belief that we can create a better future for our employees and our global community by investing in people, processes, and technology.

WE OFFER:

- Comprehensive Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision Plans – Eligible upon 1st day of hire

- Health & Dependent Care (Flexible Spending Account)

- 100% Matching 401K up to 6%

- Life/Accidental Life Insurance

- Paid Parental Leave

- Health Advocate Services

- Employee Assistance Program

- Tuition Reimbursement Program

- Career Path System and Training

- An empowering and open culture with the opportunity to grow and create

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS:

- The desire to learn new roles and grow with the company

- A completed High School Diploma or GED is preferred.

- Industrial or manufacturing experience to include operating heavy mobile equipment

- Flexibility to work a rotating 12 hr shift, days, nights and weekends

- Ability to climb stairs, climb ladders, reach, squat, tolerate prolonged sitting, standing or walking, balance, bend, operate mobile equipment, crawl, kneel, lift up to 50 lbs.

- Ability to work in cramped quarters, heights, extreme temperature conditions.

YOUR PURPOSE:

Perform a wide variety of supplementary duties within the melt shop and other plant areas within a team.

YOUR WORK:

- Involves a variety of simple, manual tasks, receiving guidance, and specific instructions from Melt Shift Supervisor and furnace crews.

- Perform repetitive work around the furnace area to supply raw materials for the melting process such as adding alloys, fluxes, refractories, etc.

- Cut unprepared scrap in the yard with a cutting torch for the electric furnace.

- Through on the job training, must become certified on Billet Yard Crane in order to serve as a relief operator. This requires proficiency in operating the crane and assisting with routine and preventative maintenance. Safely operate overhead Billet Crane to warehouse billets between the casting and rolling process.

- As needed, function as a Caster Cutting Attendant. This requires versatility to adequately carry out the normal machine operator duties for each job performed and participating in housekeeping activities in the casting area.

- Clean machinery and other equipment or apparatus, assist maintenance personnel, as needed handling tools, parts, and perform routine maintenance on any equipment used.

- Perform material handling duties by unloading trucks transporting supplies and parts to the warehouse, stock room, or work areas.

- Use hand tools such as a shovel, pick, sledgehammer, crowbar, broom, and rake; equipment such as hand trucks, dollies, jack, pneumatic hammer, as well as operate forklifts, front-end loaders, and bobcats to perform daily tasks and to get up stock for the furnace.

- Assist with hanging electrodes, taking temperatures and samples at the furnace, and adding necessary alloys at the tap as directed. Required to function as an Electric Furnace Helper as needed.

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