Foundry Operator
- Pittsburgh, PA
- $21.00 per hour
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Competitive Wages: Starting at $21.00 per hour with a skills incentive program.
- Bonus: $500 sign on bonus after 6 months.
- Job Stability: We've been around for 175 years - and we're still growing.
- Career Growth: We believe in promoting from within.
- Respectful Culture: You're not just a number - you're part of the team.
- Medical, Dental & Vision: Enjoy peace of mind with our comprehensive benefits package, including an employer HSA (Health Savings Account) contribution.
- Earned Time Off: Recharge and rejuvenate with earned time off to spend on your terms.
- Paid Holidays: Celebrate special moments and create lasting memories with paid holidays.
- Financial Perks: 401(k) program with company match as well as an Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- Education Perks: We believe in your continued growth and offer educational assistance to support your professional development.
- Dependent Scholarship Opportunities: We care about your family's future, which is why we provide opportunities for your dependents to pursue their educational dreams.
- Moves sand, castings, flasks, or other materials about foundry.
- Assembles flasks.
- Waters and mixes sand, shovels sand into flask, and compacts sand into flasks.
- Sprays binder on surface of sand molds and dries surface with blowtorch.
- Fits together, clamps, and unclamps cope and drag on production line.
- Weighs out specified amounts of materials for furnace charge and loads charge into melting furnace.
- Skims slag from surface of molten metal.
- Carries or pushes ladles of molten metal on monorail and pours metal into molds
- Installs and removes steel clamps used to hold steel flasks together.
- Breaks sand mold from finished casting.
- Sorts castings into pairs or groups for assembly.
- Cleans castings, patterns, and flasks.
- Removes gates, sprues, and other projections from castings with sledge, pneumatic hammer, or power hacksaw.
- Breaks up slag and shovels it into buckets for removal to dump.
- Chips out crucibles and ladle linings.
- Prepares plaster and refines ladle.
- Sweeps and cleans work areas.
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
- Minimal experience required.
- Basic analytical, prioritizing, interpersonal, problem-solving, presentation, budgeting, project management (from conception to completion), & planning skills.
- Basic verbal and written communication skills (including analysis, interpretation, & reasoning).
- Ability to develop and maintain collaborative relationships with peers and colleagues across the organization, as well as, internal and external clients.
- Ability to work well autonomously and within a team in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment.
- Self-motivated with critical attention to detail, deadlines and reporting.
- Possess a mechanical aptitude; ability to use a large variety of hand tools and basic knowledge of power tools, forklifts, welding equipment, and cutting torch.
- Ability to work overtime as necessary.
- Regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk, hear and see.
- Regularly/Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and distance vision.
- Regularly/Occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, extreme cold & heat, risk of electrical shock, and toxic or caustic chemicals.
- The noise level in the work environment may be high.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions.