M&H Valve - Cleaning Room Utility

M&H Valve Company is a world-class manufacturer of water and wastewater materials including fire hydrants, resilient wedge gate valves, butterfly valves and check valves. Since 1854, M&H has developed a reputation for excellence and dependability. Our extensive facilities and innovative technologies have made us a business and community leader. From state-of-the-art environmental upgrades to advanced training initiatives and community outreach, we’re working every day to make sure that M&H Valve is the best in the business. M&H Valve Company is part of Birmingham, AL based McWane, Inc.

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Pay: $25.11 per hour

Benefits:

• Health Insurance - Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama
• Dental Insurance - Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama
• Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance (Company-Paid)
• Short Term Disability (Company-Paid)
• 401(k) with Company Match
• Paid Vacation after 1 year
• 10 Paid Holidays per year

Screening:

• Pre-Employment Drug Test
• Background Screening
• Physical

Job Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• 1st Responsibility - Ensuring personal safety and the safety of your team members.
• Assists supervisors and managers in maintaining a safe and healthy work environment.
• Wears appropriate PPE which may include fall protection, respiratory protection, hearing protection, foot, hand, head, and eye protection.
• Uses proper lifting and ergo techniques.
• Reads work orders or receives oral instructions to determine work assignments, material, or equipment needs.
• Performs precision smoothing and grinding of iron castings to move particles of metal to produce desired product to ISO quality standards.
• Operates various high-speed grinders to finish ductile iron castings according to design specifications.
• Moves controls to adjust, start, or stop equipment during grinding and polishing processes.
• Removes completed workpieces from equipment or worktables, using hand tools, and places workpieces in containers.
• Measures and marks equipment, objects, or parts to ensure grinding and polishing standards are met.
• Maintains awareness of hot and vibrating parts.
• Inventories and records quantities of materials and finished products, requisitioning additional supplies as necessary.
• Maintains inventories of materials.
• Notifies supervisor of errors or equipment stoppage.
• Clears equipment at end of operating run and reviews schedule to determine next assignment.
• Records problems that occurred, such as downtime, and actions taken.
• Transfers equipment, objects, or parts to specified work areas, using moving devices.
• Trims, scrapes, or deburrs objects or parts, using chisels, scrapers, and other hand tools and equipment.
• Repairs and maintains equipment, objects, or parts, using hand tools.
• Files grooved, contoured, and irregular surfaces of metal objects, machine parts, to conform to templates, other parts, layouts, or blueprint specifications.
• Inspects, feels, and measures castings to ensure that surfaces and dimensions meet specifications.
• Checks quality of work in progress to pass audits while maintaining a continuous output.
• Marks defects, such as knotholes, cracks, and splits, for repair.
• Sharpens abrasive grinding tools, using machines, and hand tools.
• Loads and adjusts workpieces onto equipment worktables.
• Records product and processing data.
• Meets or exceeds hourly production rates every hour.
• Maintains cleanliness of the production area.
• Proactively promotes The McWane Way Principles.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

High school diploma/GED preferred.

Must be at least 18 years of age.

Language Skills

Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10s and 100s. Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to walk; sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to a wide range of temperatures, humid conditions, moving machinery, dust, fumes, gases, odors, vibrations, and varying noise levels.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Please note this

job description

is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
McWane is a Federal VEVRAA contractor, and an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices. McWane will not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran or service member status, marital status, citizenship status (In IL - sex, including same sex, ancestry, order of protection status, physical or mental disability, military status, pregnancy, unfavorable discharge status, genetic information), (In IA - gender identity), (In CA- gender identity or expression, and genetic information) or any other category protected by federal, state or local law.