Kobe Aluminum Automotive Products
Casting / Melting Operator
Bowling Green, KY - Full Time
Job Title: Casting Operator Casting/Melting
Classification: Non-Exempt
Department: Casting
Reports to: Supervisor
Purpose:
The Casting/Melting Operator is responsible for monitoring equipment, making adjustments as necessary to maintain quality, and reporting any changes in conditions they can’t control.
General Duties:
Classification: Non-Exempt
Department: Casting
Reports to: Supervisor
Purpose:
The Casting/Melting Operator is responsible for monitoring equipment, making adjustments as necessary to maintain quality, and reporting any changes in conditions they can’t control.
General Duties:
- Ensure equipment is operating within specified parameters
- Operation of melting furnaces: Material handling, charging, alloying melting furnaces
- Build 20 Metric Ton charges continuous throughout the shift
- Load the charges in 1450 degree melting furnaces
- Safely Operate 15,000# forklifts
- Perform Spectrometer testing to plan refinements
- Perform fluxing and refinements to the metal to ensure quality
- Manually transfer 15 Metric Ton of 1450 degree metal from Melters to Holders
- Clean and maintain daily maintenance on metal troughs
- Perform and monitor equipment checks
- Clean, inspect, and maintain furnaces
- Perform and maintain quality checks
- Manual set up of casting operations and maintain good casting conditions
- Able to shutoff metal blowouts during production
- Performs work by SOP’s
- Maintain good 5S in work area, equipment, and tools
- Performs other duties as required
- Maintain and support 5s activities outside the working areas
- Safely operate 20 Metric Ton overhead cranes
- Ability to work both independently and as a team
- Basic troubleshooting and problem solving
- Ability to identify nonstandard situations and respond accordingly
- Self-Driven
- High school degree or GED equivalency.
- Basic mechanical aptitude
- Must be willing to work a (4 Star) 12-hour shifts (willing to work every other weekend and some holidays). Shifts are either 5:00 AM to 5:10 PM or 5:00 PM to 5:10 PM
- Able to perform repetitive and physically demanding tasks for extended periods, to include but not limited to: lifting, walking, standing, stooping, pulling, and pushing
- Willing to maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations; including wearing personal protective equipment
- Must always work safely
- Willing to work in hot/humid, cold, noisy industrial environment (Summer time heat index in excess of 135 degrees and sub-freezing temperature during winter months)
- Willing to work around dust, oil, grease, chemicals, and other substances
- Able to use a computer for basic reporting and documentation
- Good interpersonal skills
- Good communication skills. Ability to read, write, and communicate verbally
- Able to accurately use basic math
- Molten metal experience strongly preferred
