MOD Caster

Job Description

Main Responsibilities

• Ensure safety during daily operations and maintenance down days on the casting floor
• Receive ladles on ladle landing platform when shipped from LMF or VTD
• Properly install ladle slide gate cylinders
• Install tundish cover flux on molten steel in tundish
• Take temperature of steel and samples; hydrovas each heat
• Exchange tundish each sequence using caster 125-ton remote crane
• Pack of clay rope and nail whiskers in casting mold
• Manual filling of mold and monitoring
• Monitor casting machine speeds and breakout protection
• Prep new tundish for pre heat and start preheaters
• Stock all consumables for casting on the casting deck using the 125-ton casting crane
• Communicate with LMF/ VTD for accurate shipping times to the casting department
• Casting machine mold, bender, and segment exchanges during scheduled down days
• Operate the caster torch machine in manual and auto functions
• Apply id on slabs
• Operate slab deburring machine
• Apply hold codes to slabs when required
• Operate runout crane for dummy bar size changes
• Set dummy bar head size up to proper width required to cast melt practice
• Remove head crop and tail crop per start up and end of each sequence
• Remove and hot chalk proper id on etch sample cut from required melt practice
• Perform preventive maintenance on torch machine
• Change cutting tips on torch machine
• Understand proper cutting plans in level 2 for torch slab cutting
• Remove kerf boxes and dump when required using runout crane and forklift
• Ensure safety of all employees who enter/work in the torch / runout operating area
• Visually check slab id's
• Trimming leftover kerf off the slab with a hand torch
• Manually identify slabs with hot chalk when automatic id machines have mechanical issues

About You

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Basic mechanical aptitude and experience.
• Good communication, interpersonal, and teamwork skills.
• Committed to safety, quality, and continuous improvement.

Our Offer

At SSAB we use our values - driven, true and ahead - in making everyday decisions, keeping the customer at the heart of what we do. When joining SSAB you will become part of an organization of passionate problem solvers working together on important challenges.

We offer a wide range of benefits to our team members:

• Bonuses
• 401(k) with 5% employer match
• Profit sharing
• 10 paid holidays
• Vacation
• Excellent, affordable benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Challenging and interesting work
• Friendly and welcoming workplace
• Global company committed to sustainability

About Us

Becoming part of the SSAB family means joining a journey. A journey that we believe is essential for the sustainability of this planet. Steel has been one of the most important materials for developing our society and it will continue to be so. In the roofs over our heads, in the bridges connecting our cities and in the cars of tomorrow. At SSAB we are proud of our history and leadership in high-strength steel. But we are also aware that the production of steel is one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world. That has to change. That is why we have developed the world's first fossil free steel production and has committed to becoming largely fossil-free. As part of SSAB you will be instrumental in realizing this goal and push for the green transformation of the whole steel industry.

About the Team

SSAB Special Steels has global responsibility for sales of SSAB's quenched and tempered (Q&T) steels and advanced high-strength steels (AHSS) as well as for steel and plate production in Oxelösund, Sweden, and Mobile, USA.