Is a STVS Production Furnace Specialist role at Mott a GREAT fit for you?
The STVS Production Furnace Specialist team is in many ways one of the most important positions in Mott manufacturing. They ensure that our industry-defining porous material is sintered safely, in a way that meets the customer’s high expectations, and on time to a production schedule. A person who excels at this role finds reward in physical work, works well under time constraints and against a demanding schedule, and is flexible for work outside of standard working hours. They are self-starters and natural leaders.
Mott leads the industries we serve in lead time, performance and quality. Mott is a 100% employee owned company and our employees are motivated by their own success. Driving double digit growth year over year by believing in possibilities, setting high expectations, caring deeply and acting like owners. The STVS Production Furnace Specialist has a direct impact on the success of the business every day as nearly all of our special porous media is sintered by them!
Key Responsibilities: | Major Challenges: |
- Safely operate production furnaces per operating guidelines and Standard Work instructions.
- Ensure product quality by properly setting and maintaining parameters such as gas flows, temperature, etc.
- Optimize production output by minimizing temperature changes and other events that affect Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) of furnace.
- Provide Production Supervisor with information needed to track OEE of furnace including actual performance and reasons for downtime.
- Responsible for escalating issues in a timely manner that will impact safety, quality, or the production schedule.
- Responsible for all of the indirect work to running the furnaces, including but not limited to preparing trays of sheet and tube product, maintaining trays, brushing sheet, and the in process quality checks.
- Work with technical team including Engineers and Maintenance personnel to ensure furnaces are running in tip top shape.
- Commit to working additional hours beyond regular shifts or workdays as assigned by management.
- Maintain a culture of our core values.
| - Physical labor in a hot work environment
- Detailed communication of production issues
- Optimizing furnace workload to meet demanding schedule
- Balancing the cyclical work load between running the furnaces and the indirect work required to keep them running
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Expected Performance Outcomes: | Technical Knowledge/Skills: |
- Product made to correct specifications and sintered to expectations (quality and production schedule)
- Information from Furnace operation is clear and OEE is well understood
- Sintering related quality issues <5% for all job through furnaces
| - Manufacturing Competency
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Time Management
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Required Experience: | Personal Attributes: |
- 5+ years in a high performance and critical manufacturing operation
- Experience around continuous industrial furnaces highly preferred.
- Familiarity with manufacturing documentation and basic principles.
| - High Energy Worker
- Natural Leader
- Conscientious
- Detail oriented
- Team Player
- Adaptable
- Accountable
- Honest
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