About the position
A large international engineering, manufacturing rolling mill steel company requires the above to be responsible for supervising day-to-day rolling mill operations, ensuring production plans are met while maintaining strict adherence to safety, quality, and operational standards.
Minimum requirements for the role:
- A Trade Certificate (Tool Setter) is essential for this role. A Technical qualification in either Metallurgy, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related field is preferred.
- Previous experience working as a Setter, Controller and or Operator for roll forming machines is essential.
- Must have the ability to accurately set tooling.
- Must have knowledge of Olma and Fischer machines.
- Must have good communication skills to liaise with the Tool Room.
- Previous experience having worked within a rolling mill or heavy manufacturing operations, factory or plant or related is essential.
- Previous supervisory or shift leadership experience is essential.
- Strong understanding of rolling mill processes, metal forming, and production workflows is essential.
- Experience working within safety-critical and high-volume manufacturing environments is preferred.
The successful candidate will be responsible for:
- Supervising day-to-day rolling mill operations, ensuring production plans are met while maintaining strict adherence to safety, quality, and operational standards.
- Leading production teams, coordinating equipment availability, managing workflow, and driving continuous improvement in a high-risk, high-output environment.
- Setting cams and setting strokes on automatic machines as well as programming of feeders.
- Partaking in stocktake when required and ensuring conformance to safety and quality.
- Monitoring mill parameters, rolling tolerances, and process stability.
- Ensuring minimal downtime through proactive supervision and rapid response to operational issues.
- Enforcing strict adherence to health, safety, and environmental policies and procedures.
- Ensuring safe operation of rolling mill equipment, cranes, furnaces, and auxiliary systems.
- Ensuring rolled products meet dimensional, surface, and metallurgical quality specifications.
- Working closely with the maintenance teams, reporting mechanical, electrical, or automation issues promptly as well as supporting planned maintenance shutdowns and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Driving lean manufacturing, waste reduction, and efficiency improvement initiatives.
- Tracking production KPIs, downtime, scrap, and yield.
Salary package, including benefits, is highly negotiable depending on experience gained.
Desired Skills:
- Steel Industry
- Rolling Mill
- Production
- Production Supervisor
