Furnace Operator

Weir HBF (Pty) Ltd; Gqeberha; On-site; ZAR 67,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

Weir HBF (Pty) Ltd in Port Elizabeth invites applications for an Apprentice: Furnace Operator onsite. This role supports furnace operations, inspections and maintenance, material handling, and supervising safe, high-temperature processes.

You will learn to load the furnace, monitor melt rates, manage quality checks, and contribute to a world-class safety culture while developing foundational technical skills in a foundry environment.

Qualifications

• Grade 12 with minimum of 5 years’ related experience in a Foundry environment.

Responsibilities

• Inspections and Maintenance: Conduct necessary pre-use inspections on all equipment, ensuring faults or concerns are documented, reported and addressed before operating the furnace.
• Maintain furnace equipment to ensure it is in good working condition and report any defects or wear.
• Material Management: Ensure all necessary charge materials and consumables are available for the shift.
• Furnace Charging and Operating: Load metal and additions into the furnace in the correct manner using appropriate tools and equipment. Ensure the lining and tools and equipment are kept in good condition.
• Control the induction furnace to melt metal at the required melt rate, ensuring that temperature, composition and metal cleanliness are maintained.
• Monitoring: Ensure the furnace, cooling systems and hydraulics are operating correctly and within the parameters required.
• Quality Control: Perform sample tests to verify the quality of the molten metal and make adjustments as necessary.
• Safety First: Demonstrate 100% commitment to our zero harm behaviors in support of our drive towards developing a world-class safety culture.

Skills

Attention to detail

Technical ability

High-temperature environment

Foundry experience

Job description

Apprentice: Furnace Operator Location: Port Elizabeth Work Arrangement: Onsite

What we do at Weir

We are a global leader in mining technology for a sustainable future. We help our customers extract the resources the world needs more efficiently and more sustainably. Our planet’s future depends on the transition to renewable energy, and that transition can only happen with the metals and minerals our customers deliver. So, we work side by side with mines across the globe to move less rock, use less energy, use water wisely, and create less waste. Together, we drive the shift to smart, efficient, and more sustainable mining.

Make your impact

You’ll play a key role in solving real-world challenges. You’ll apply your skills to deliver results that matter whether that’s through engineering, planning or customer support. You’ll work with purpose, learn every day and help shape a more sustainable future.

What you’ll do

• Inspections and Maintenance: Conduct necessary pre-use inspections on all equipment, ensuring faults or concerns are documented, reported and addressed before operating the furnace.
• Maintain furnace equipment to ensure it is in good working condition and report any defects or wear.
• Material Management: Ensure all necessary charge materials and consumables are available for the shift.
• Furnace Charging and Operating: Load metal and additions into the furnace in the correct manner using appropriate tools and equipment. Ensure the lining and tools and equipment are kept in good condition.
• Control the induction furnace to melt metal at the required melt rate, ensuring that temperature, composition and metal cleanliness are maintained.
• Monitoring: Ensure the furnace, cooling systems and hydraulics are operating correctly and within the parameters required.
• Quality Control: Perform sample tests to verify the quality of the molten metal and make adjustments as necessary.
• Safety First: Demonstrate 100% commitment to our zero harm behaviors in support of our drive towards developing a world-class safety culture.

What you’ll bring

• Grade 12 with minimum of 5 years’ related experience in a Foundry environment.
• Attention to detail.
• Technical ability and skills.
• Ability to work in a high-temperature environment.

Why join Weir?

We live our values we think safety first, do the right thing, respect each other, aim high, and delight our customers. We encourage our people to lead by example and celebrate our successes. We’re passionate about our purpose to help deliver the natural resources that are essential to create a better future for the world. We do this by combining our deep customer insights, world-class engineering, materials science expertise, and intelligent automation to deliver innovative end-to-end solutions incorporating our signature technologies. We believe your voice matters and your ideas make a difference. We’re working hard to nurture a diverse culture where our people feel like they belong and can do the best work of their lives. You can help shape our unique culture through our inclusion networks and safety initiatives.

Benefits

• Competitive pay.
• Career development and learning support.
• Access to global inclusion networks.
• Regional and team-specific benefits.
• Sharebuilder scheme.
• Wellness support for you and your family.
• Collaboration with global teams.
• Study support.

#LI-ES1 #Minerals We are Weir. And the growing world depends on us. It depends on us constantly reinventing. Quickly adapting. Continually finding better, faster, more sustainable ways to access the resources it needs to thrive. And it depends on each and every one of us doing the best work of our lives. It’s a big challenge – but it’s exciting. And it’s one we can’t wait to be part of. Thank you for your interest in joining us.