Description

The future. It’s on you. You & Golden Aluminum. We are a continuous casting aluminum rolling mill who established operations in 1984 and located in Fort Lupton Colorado, 35 miles north of downtown Denver. We care about our environment, our people, and our community. We’re honored to be selected by the Department of Energy to receive up to $22.3 million in investment supporting our Nexcast Mini Mill and other breakthrough projects which will steer the aluminum industry toward a greener, decarbonized future.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Melt Superintendent provides safety, quality, and production leadership in alignment with department and company objectives. Additional responsibilities include managing day to day operations, continuous improvement, cost control, production, scheduling, and engaging in and leading department initiatives. The Superintendent’s areas of responsibility also include Raw Materials inventories, melt loss reduction, blending optimization, molten metal quality, and setting priorities for maintenance.

Safety is the most important part of all jobs within Golden Aluminum; therefore, the superintendent must be able to demonstrate the ability to initiate, lead, and uphold safety policies, practices, procedures, and housekeeping standards at all times.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

· Maintain a safe work environment through cultural development, behavior based safety, and adherence to Work Instructions, RCA on safety incidents and near misses, and completion of safety observations.

· Establishes personnel schedules and labor requirements to achieve production goals and objectives.

· Reviews and analyzes production, quality control, maintenance and operational reports to determine causes of nonconformity, production shortfalls, and operating concerns for remediation and works in conjunction with the Reliability team to address issues.

· Responsible for selection and mentoring of Leads, Process Experts and Production Technicians.

· Ensures adherence to/compliance with company policies, rules and regulations relating to safety/health, performance standards, operating procedures, processes, and training requirements.

· Manages critical raw material inventory level and actively manages charge mix for cost optimization.

· Responsible for implementing NCR corrective actions including re-training of hourly personnel.

· Collaborates with Department Manager to plan departmental work flow in order to achieve long term goals established by senior management.

· Identifies and evaluates production practice changes.

· Schedules and implements necessary employee training.

· Directly supervises approximately 25 employees: monitors work quality, including conducting performance appraisals and providing counseling for improved performance.

· Strong leadership and interpersonal skills

· Proven ability to coach and develop high performance teams

· Excellent critical thinking skills

· Ability to effectively communicate across all levels of the company and with vendors and customers.

· Solid communication, listening, and follow-through skills. Natural collaborator and team builder.

· Must possess good leadership and coaching skills, have a solid comfort level with change, and the ability to lead change is essential and critical to this position.

· Woks with and instills a sense of urgency

· Strong aluminum melt and metallurgy knowledge is highly desired.

· Ability to write routine reports and correspondences and prepare management presentations.

· Ability to apply common sense and solid business judgment to carry out instructions in written, oral, or diagram form.

· Ability to work independently with stakeholders on both requirements gathering and business improvement strategies;

· Ability to engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously.

· Basic computer knowledge including Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word).

· Ability to work the hours/days necessary to support a 24/7/365 operation

Compensation: $85,000 - 110,000 depending on experience

Because Golden Aluminum thrives on the power of diversity and is committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect, and contribution, we are committed to giving every qualified applicant and employee an equal opportunity.

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