Cold Rolling Mill Operator

Bilstein Cold Rolled Steel Lp.; Bowling Green, Northern (KY, KY); Hybrid; USD 25,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Bilstein Cold Rolled Steel Lp. is seeking a Cold Rolling Mill Operator in Bowling Green, KY to set up, operate, and monitor the cold rolling and temper mill process.

You will work with the team to produce coils to specified tolerances and surface finishes, load and transport coils, and participate in quality checks. The role emphasizes hands-on machinery operation, process monitoring, and collaboration with adjacent departments to ensure production efficiency and product quality.

Qualifications

• Experience reading production schedules and work orders.
• Ability to operate cold rolling mill and temper mill.
• Experience monitoring gauges and ensuring product tolerances.

Responsibilities

• Set up, operate, maintain and monitor cold rolling and temper mill operations to achieve specified thickness and surface finishes.
• Read production schedules and work orders to determine processing sequences.
• Load coils using cranes, conveyors, or hoists and move them to required positions.
• Monitor process information and measurements to ensure target surface and thickness; adjust controls as needed.
• Inspect finished coils, identify scrap or rework, and document QA data.
• Train new workers in rolling mill operation and mill equipment.
• Communicate with team leaders and other departments to meet production and quality goals.

Skills

Read production schedules

Operate rolling mill

Monitor gauges and quality checks

Train coworkers

Tools

Crane operation

Mill equipment maintenance

Job description

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Cold Rolling Mill Operator

Full Time Manual Labor Bowling Green, KY, US

24 days ago Requisition ID: 1141

Salary Range: $18.00 To $20.00 Hourly

Company Overview:

The BILSTEIN facility in Bowling Green, KY is the company’s first United States manufacturing operation and serves the automotive industry as well as, the saw and tooling industry with tailor-made steel grades. We have state-of-the-art technology and are a part of an internationally operating family owned business with a 100 plus years of steel making DNA. We strive to produce a high-quality engineered product to live up to the BILSTEIN legacy.

Position: Cold Rolling Mill Operator

Overview

We are presently looking for top talent to join our diverse organization. This position will exhibit process improvements that impact the bottom line in a performance driven organization. It is essential that you are transparent and lead in a collaborative way.

Duties & Responsibilities

In collaboration with the Cold Rolling Team Leader the Cold Rolling Mill Operator sets up, operates, maintains and monitors all operations of the cold rolling and temper mill, to reduce the thickness and produce specific surface finishes on the steel coils to specified tolerances in order to prepare the material for annealing, slitting or for delivery to the customer.

Specific duties include:

Operations/Quality

• Reading production schedules and work orders to determine processing sequences and reduction patterns to efficiently run the mill operations.
• Starting conveyors to load steel coils and/or signaling crane operators to move coils to the required position.
• Positioning steel coils on conveyors or mandrels, using crane, chain hoists or grabs.
• Monitoring process information while the product is being rolled, including automatic x-ray gauge thickness measurement, shape measurement and pinhole detection to ensure that the product achieves the desired surface and thickness parameters.
• Rewinding and inspecting the coils after the cold mill operation, clearly identifying any suspect material for further processing, or placing the material on hold for quality inspections.
• Recording data from the operator screen for Quality Assurance purposes to ensure that the steel coils meet the order specifications. Adjusting controls to maintain roll speed, coolant flow, roll force, roll gap, steering, mill balance, air wipes, squeegee roll gaps utilizing output form operator control screens. Repairing, replacing, and maintaining mill equipment as needed, using hand tools.
• Placing completed steel coils on conveyors, using crane, chain hoists or grabs, or signaling crane operators to transport them to subsequent stations.
• Examining the steel strip to ensure the final product parameters and surface conforms to specifications, utilizing knowledge of customer requirements and placing any suspect coils on hold for quality control/inspection.
• Changing work rolls and back up rolls using crane, hoists and chains based on tonnage requirements, customer requirements and surface roughness specifications.
• Direct and train other workers to change rolls, operate mill equipment, remove coils and cobbles, and band and load material.
• Signal and assist other workers to remove and position equipment, fill hoppers, and feed materials into the mill.
• Checking emulsion conditions, making additions or reductions in concentration based on rolling requirements and surface quality.
• Taking samples of finished steel coils for hardness, roughness, gauge testing, using testing equipment.
• Using steel strapping and hand tools to band the finished steel coils for transport to the next production unit or stock.
• Signaling crane operators to deposit finished steel coils in storage areas.
• Printing and attaching rolling identification tags on finished product for subsequent processing and traceability.
• Reporting maintenance job orders as necessary.
• Instructing new workers in rolling mill operation.

The fulfillment of duties involves regular communication with co-workers in the annealing and roll shop departments in order to make decisions concerning production and quality requirements