About Olympic Steel
Since 1954, Olympic Steel has been focused on safe, profitable, and sustainable growth through the direct sale of a wide range of processed metal products and several metal-intensive branded products. Guided by our Core Values, we put safety first – always, and we believe in cultivating an inclusive workplace where employee belonging, and empowerment are foundational to everything we do. Olympic Steel offers employees the best of both worlds: the culture and community of a closely connected team with the resources, opportunity and stability of a large, growing organization.
Job Description
Specific job tasks required by the Leveler Operator:
- Setup involves working in conjunction with an assigned production employee helper to complete a sequence of setups by following established procedures.
- Confirm hardness, gauge width, and finished material conformity to job requirements and customer specifications.
- Operate console to mechanically load coil stock to pay-off mechanism, set for proper width, feed through leveler rolls, and adjust micro setting through console controls to secure flat sheet stock.
- Thread through automatic length and sheet count.
- Set feeds and speed for optimum quantity and quality requirements.
- Stack required sheets according to order.
- Oversee packaging of material to ensure customer specifications are met.
- Verify final product for hardness; gauge width and length to insure conformity to order.
- Weigh and prepare shipping and stock tags and attaches to order.
- Operate all units to produce required weight or sheets.
- Remove unused coils from payoff for return to inventory.
- Occasionally operate units manually.
- Detect faulty operation, defective material, and refer these and other situations to supervisor.
- Record production data and time information.
Qualifications
- Mechanically inclined, production oriented, and safety and quality conscious.
- General knowledge of crane operation and ancillary lifting devices.
- Basic math skills required.
- Working knowledge of general computer programs required.
- High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
Why Work for Olympic Steel
Olympic Steel offers comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, and vision benefits; paid holidays and vacation; a 401(k) match; tuition reimbursement; and various opportunities to earn cash bonuses. And, we offer more than a competitive total compensation package. We provide our employees the ability to build a meaningful life-long career. When you work at Olympic Steel, you can make a significant impact – at our company, in the local community and in the world. See for yourself at IamOlympicSteel.com.