We are looking for courageous, talented, and hard-working individuals with a "can do" attitude. We are currently going through a cultural and operational change in our organization and looking for people to join the team that want to make a difference in their career as well as make the working world safer through our product innovations. Yes, our teams make and finish chain, but they also have the opportunity to make their own work environment a little better and safer.

At Laclede, we work hard because our products are put to the limits every single day. If one of our links fails, it could mean the difference between someone hurt or getting home safely to their family. We take chain making seriously, so our customers don't have to.

Position Summary:

The learning position for setting up, operating, and maintaining one of the Induction Furnaces to heat treat continuous chain while maintaining QC specifications and following ISO protocols.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Learn about the safety aspects of the job and various safety concerns throughout the Form & Weld Department.
• Learn the quality standards of the product.
• Learn to operate either, but only one of the Induction Furnaces.
• Learn to read and understand the daily production sheet.
• Learn to read and understand Job Traveler.
• Learn to correlate the Job Traveler with the PMT on the bin box of chain to select product for processing.
• Learn to determine frequency of current, time cycle and induction furnace coils to be used for each product, using knowledge of induction machines, heat-treating methods, and ISO documents.
• Learn to perform induction furnace set-up on one furnace for various sizes of chain and heat-treats by following ISO change-over sheets.
• Learn to utilize hand tools to position and fasten induction coils, pocket wheels, and rail distances according to material specifications.
• Learn to perform QC tests for destruction, elongation values, and hardness of samples based on QC specifications and ISO standards.
• Learn to clean furnace filters as required by cleaning schedule.
• General housekeeping around the Induction Furnace area.

Core Competencies:

• Analytical skills.
• Technical skills.
• Customer Service.
• Interpersonal Skills.
• Communication Skills-Oral and Written.
• Ability to work independently and as a team.
• Good work ethic-efficient, effective, accurate, organized, conscientious, dependable, and punctual.
• Ability to meet company standards (i.e., goals and objectives, production quotas, project deadlines) while maintaining a quality conscientious attitude.
• Adaptable-capable of changing with the work environment, production demands, priorities, methods, direction, etc.
• Motivated and takes initiative.
• Innovative/Resourceful.

Education:

• High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent work experience

Required Qualifications:

• Mechanical skills or demonstrated ability to learn mechanical skills, ideally within a manufacturing environment.
• Must be able to use or learn to use measuring instruments such as calipers and rulers.
• Must be able to use hand and power tools
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment

Physical Demands/Work Environment:

• Must be able to stand, walk, bend, stoop, kneel, crouch, reach overhead, crawl, or climb a ladder.
• Must be able to lift 50lbs, at times may be asked to lift more.
• Environment is non-climate controlled.
• Production floor is typically loud.

Must wear required PPE.

Benefits:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Quarterly Bonus
• Overtime Bonus
• FSA/HSA
• Voluntary Benefits
• Company paid life insurance
• 12 paid holidays
• Paid vacation