Saw Operator - 3rd Shift

Ezeflow USA, Inc. – Flowline Division is seeking a skilled and motivated Saw Operator to join our manufacturing team in New Castle, PA.  Flowline is a proud manufacturer of butt weld pipe fittings ranging from ½” to 24” in diameter servicing customers worldwide with unmatched quality, expertise, and service. 

As a Saw Operator, you will play a key role in our manufacturing process by setting up and operating vertical contour band saw to cut straight and angle patterns in metal stock which may include reading work orders or blueprints to locate cutting lines and determine dimensions and tolerances as well as which type of blade, how much tension, and what cutting speed and feed rate to use. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following but are not limited to:

• Reads blueprints to determine cutting layout lines
• Determine dimension and tolerances
• Determine metal to cut, type of blade to be used, blade tension, cutting speed, feed rate, table angle, and positions of table stops and guides
• Relieves saw blade support and drive wheel tension
• Places saw blade over wheels and resets tension to change blade and adjust tension
• Turns controls to set prescribed cutting speed, feed rate, and table angle
• Loosens table stops, guides, and positions them to align and secure workpiece
• Places stock on cutting table and clamps it into position
• Starts saw and manually guides stock along layout lines to cut pattern, or engages automatic feed to cut straight line
• Verifies conformance to specifications
• Calculates and marks layout lines

Work Schedule:

• Full time, 40 hours per week, 10 hour shift, Sunday Night- through Thursday Morning, primarily 9pm to 7am
• Overtime as needed when production needs dictate overtime is required to meet customer delivery expectations

Benefits:

• Paid time off-16 hours after 60 days, annual vacation accrual
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance after 60 days
• Short Term Disability benefit and 401k after 1 year

• Previous experience preferred
• Ability to read, add subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to walk; sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, or crouch, and talk or hear. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds; frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds; and occasionally lift and/or move up to 70 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

Pay:

• $16.40/hour