Job Description

Job description

Elgin Industries is looking for a Control Room Operator to join our dynamic 3rd shift team located in Elgin, Illinois!

Elgin Industries has long been one of the transportation industry’s premier manufacturers of engine and chassis components. For more than 100 years, the world’s premier engine and vehicle manufacturers have relied on Elgin for best-cost, best-quality product solutions. Still family run, still driven by innovation and a passion for customer success, Elgin proudly engineers and manufactures world-class products right here in the U.S.A

As a Control Room Operator you will control furnaces that perform hardening, carburizing, annealing and tempering of steel. You will oversee and at times assist in performing secondary Operations, such as shot blasting, tumbling, racking, straightening, preparing loads and washing.

RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

Operates our Modern “State of the Art” Distributive Control System over all heat treat furnaces.
Directs up to three subordinate furnace handlers (Heat Treaters).
Provides forklift support to furnace handlers as needed.
Processes heat treat requirements through close interaction with our Heat Treat Supervisor.
Performs furnace control verifications using batch reports and infrared gas analyzers.
Handles related paperwork and sign-offs.
Operates forklifts, overhead cranes as needed.
Assists furnace handlers (Heat Treaters) as needed.
Performs preventive and minor maintenance as needed.
Fills in for absent employees if needed.

REQUIREMENTS

High school diploma or GED or equivalent work experience. Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals, to add, subtracts, multiply, and divides in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals, to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. Required to stand; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell. Must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift up to 50 pounds and/or move over 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles. Occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals, extreme cold, and extreme heat. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Job Types: Full time - 3rd shift ( 11:00pm to 7:30am) Monday-Friday with 2 (15minutes) paid breaks and a 30 minute paid lunch.

Salary: $18.00 - $26.00 per hour (Commensurate with experience and capability)

Benefits: