Industrial Materials Handling and Operations Associate

Job Description

Job Description

Industrial Materials Handling and Operations Associate

Join a team where inclusion is real and every voice matters—we’re proud to build an environment that celebrates the diversity of our people and the strength it brings to our work.

Why This Role Matters

Our entry-level Utility professionals keep steel production moving across multiple operating units. Apply once to be considered for opportunities at Clairton Works, Irvin Works, and Edgar Thomson Works in the Mon Valley.

What You’ll Do

• Support production and service areas using: hand tools, pneumatic tools, gauges, oxygen lances, power-actuated tools, and cutting torches.
• Move, stage, and process materials and finished products.
• Assist with equipment inspections and routine maintenance activities.
• Operate in a heavy industrial setting; conditions can be hot, cold, wet, greasy, dirty, and noisy.
• Work safely around hot, heavy, and sharp materials—and at times near molten metal.
• Perform physically demanding tasks, including lifting in excess of 25 lbs.
• Progress, after on-the-job training, to operating cranes, tractors, trucks, dozers, loaders, boom trucks, feeders, and other mobile equipment.

What It Takes

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Ability to work rotating 8-hour shifts (including weekends/holidays) and overtime as required.
• Uncompromising commitment to safety procedures. PPE includes hard hat, safety glasses, hearing protection, protective clothing, metatarsal boots, and a respirator when needed.
• Reliable attendance, punctuality, and self-direction.
• Successful completion of a pre-employment digital assessment.

How We Win Together

• Think Critically and Drive Change
• Develop Talent and Collaborate
• Empower Performance and Deliver Results

Life at U. S. Steel

Since 1901, we’ve led the steel industry forward. We’ve set a 2050 net-zero greenhouse gas emissions goal and supply steel to key sectors—automotive, construction, containers and packaging, appliances, and energy. We invest in our communities through partnerships, philanthropy, and volunteerism, and we put safety first—always. We are United by Steel.

Awards and Recognition

• Newsweek Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces® (2021–2023)
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation Equality 100 Award (2020–2023)
• Disability:IN Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion (2021–2023)
• Ethisphere World’s Most Ethical Companies® (2022–2023)
• Military Times Best for Vets: Employers (2023)
• Mansfield Certification for advancing DEI in Legal (2023)

Equal Employment Opportunity

Conducting business with integrity and with the highest ethical values has underpinned U. S. Steel’s success for over 100 years, and it remains critical to our company’s success in the future. U. S. Steel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) according to job qualifications without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, genetics, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, disability status or status as a protected Veteran or any other legally protected group status. (California residents may visit collection of personal information and U. S. Steel's privacy practices.)