Steel Operative / Overhead Crane Operator

  • Major Recruitment Oldbury
  • Oldbury, West Midlands
  • Feb 03, 2025
Seasonal Manufacturing

Job Description

Major Recruitment are currently looking for Steel Operative / Overhead Crane Operator in the Oldbury area

Rotating shift patters:
12.58 6am till 2pm and 2pm till 10pm

13.58ph 10pm till 6am

Overtime:

First 2 hours overtime on weekdays = 15.48ph

Anything from 2 hours to 4 hours overtime on weekdays = 17.37ph

First 4 hours on a saturday 17.37ph

Anything over 4 hours on a Saturday 23.16ph

Locaton: Oldbury B69

Duties and Responsibilities:

Floop Operator

  • This is the Start of the manufacturing process.
  • Using an overhead crane to load steel coils onto a mandrel and feed it into the rolling mill - Crane certification required in house course will be undertaken
  • When the coil comes to an end, load another onto the mandrel and spot weld them together, this process continues throughout
  • Recording of coils that are loaded and consumed throughout the shop floor computer system

(All training on overhead cranes will be provided for this part of the role)

  • Operate Uncoiler, Flattener, Shear Welder, and Accumulator
  • Load steel coil into uncoiler, sheer/weld new coil to previous one, and keep line moving
  • Alert to quality issues
  • Use of a Micrometre and Vernier to check the size, thickness and quality of the product
  • Check the length corresponds with the job card and record and book finished products on the shop floor computer system
  • Banding machine to then band the tube at the end of the process
  • Read and correctly use a measuring tape, micrometer, and caliper

Skills and Experience required:

  • 1-2 year's industrial manufacturing experience
  • Welding experience
  • Mechanically inclined
  • Effective communication reading, speaking, writing English
  • Physically able to stand and walk for long periods of time, perform repetitive lifting 30lbs-50lbs, overhead reaching, bending, kneeling, crouching, pushing, pulling

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