Roll Grinder

BILSTEIN COLD ROLLED STEEL LP•Bowling Green, KY

2d•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

Experience with crane, chain hoists or grabs for positioning rolls.
Ability to monitor process information and adjust controls.
Proficiency in changing and setting up grinding wheels.
Skill in using hand tools for equipment maintenance.
Knowledge of grinding processes and roll specifications.
Experience with testing equipment for hardness, concentricity, surface defects, and roughness.
Familiarity with applying anti-corrosion protection.
Ability to identify rolls using standard tracking systems.
Experience with bearing maintenance, rotation, and lubrication.
Experience with chock maintenance, rotation, and lubrication.
Ability to perform receiving inspection of new rolls.
Experience preparing rolls for external processing, packing, loading, and unloading trucks.
Ability to inspect returned rolls from external processing.
Experience monitoring cooling lubricant concentration, pH, nitrite ion, bacteria/fungi.
Proficiency in recording test results and inputting data into computer systems.
Ability to report maintenance job orders.
Experience instructing new workers.

Nice To Haves

Experience in the automotive industry.
Experience in the saw and tooling industry.
Experience with tailor-made steel grades.
Experience with state-of-the-art technology.
Experience in a family-owned business with a long history in steel making.
Experience in a performance-driven organization.
Experience with process improvements.
Ability to lead in a collaborative way.

Responsibilities

Sets up, operates, maintains, and monitors the grinding of work rolls and back up rolls for the cold rolling mill and temper mill operations.
Reads roll schedules, production schedules and work orders to determine processing sequences and roll requirements.
Positions work rolls and back up rolls on the grinding machines using crane, chain hoists or grabs.
Monitors process information while the product is being ground to ensure that the product achieves the desired surface finish.
Records data from the operator screen for Quality Assurance purposes to ensure that the rolls have attained specifications.
Adjusts controls to maintain grinding quality, utilizing output from operator control screens.
Moves controls to adjust grinding speed, traverse speed and coolant flow to achieve the required roll surface finish without defects.
Changes and sets up new grinding wheels or changes grinding wheels depending on the type of finish required on the roll schedule.
Repairs, replaces, and maintains grinding equipment as needed, using hand tools.
Places finished rolls in the appropriate storage racks, using crane, chain hoists or grabs, or signaling crane operators to transport them to subsequent stations.
Examines finished rolls to ensure that the rolls conform to specifications, utilizing knowledge of grinding and placing any suspect rolls on hold for quality control/inspection.
Tests finished work rolls and back up rolls for hardness, concentricity, surface defects and roughness, using testing equipment.
Applies anti-corrosion protection to finished rolls.
Prints and attaches identification tags on finished rolls for transfer to the correct cost center and for tracking purposes.
Records details of roll IDs, diameter, crown, surface measurements and marking the rolls accordingly.
Identifies rolls using standard system for tracking to ensure that rolls are specific to cost centers.
Prepares the rolls for transport to the cold rolling/temper mills.
Transports the rolls to the cold rolling/temper mill stocking areas.
Undertakes bearing maintenance, rotation, and lubrication as per bearing maintenance schedule.
Undertakes chock maintenance, rotation, and lubrication as per chock maintenance schedule.
Receives inspection of new rolls, ensuring new rolls conform to specifications and are free from defects.
Prepares rolls for external processing (EDT and Chrome Plating), packing the rolls accordingly, loading and unloading trucks.
Inspects returned rolls from external processing, checking that rolls conform to specifications.
Monitors cooling lubricant concentration, pH and the nitrite ion (weekly), bacteria/fungi (monthly), determined by standard tests.
Records the coolant test results, inputting data into the roll shop computer system.
Reports maintenance job orders, as necessary.
Instructs new workers in roll grinding operations.
Communicates with co-workers in the annealing and rolling departments to make decisions concerning production and quality requirements.