We are looking for a talented and skilled Ladle Refining Furnace Operatorto join our multicultural and diverse team in Kuwait. Perform day to day activities related to furnaces (LRF) operation including preparation and maintaining safe working environment and reporting unsafe conditions. Perform related activities for process improvement as directed by immediate superior.
Duties may include but will not be limited to:
Attending toolbox meeting with his crew members, to address all the safe working practices, INIR’s, Hazard & Risk Identification’s, Ladder Safety, House Keeping and waste management.
He should ensure that all required tools and tackles and consumables are available near the shop floor for his shift as well as for reliever shift to avoid any kind of delays.
Must follow the shift relieving policy (handover &takeover of shift at work site) and also, he must ensure himself available at work site during working hours.
Carry-out pre-operation inspection / check list, equipment trials and any abnormalities noticed to be reporting to immediate superior.
Preparation includes taking trail movement of scrap & ladle transfer cars and preheater, scrap buckets, rail exchangers, purging lines.
Performing the visual inspection of shell bottom, temperature measurement, EBT flapper monitoring (during closing).
Fire watch of surroundings (Roof gantry, Tilting Cylinders, settling chamber and materials area) during EAF process and tapping.
Reporting to EAF SIC for material issuances as per the stock availability at shop floor.
Performing all the activities related to purging hose connection & di-connection. LF consumables, manual alloy addition arrangements at working floor.
Perform Electrode preparation activity like nipple fixing and lifting spare electrode.
Reporting to EAF/LRF SIC for material issuances as per the stock availability at shop floor.
Electrode changing, adjustment & preparation and seeking assistance from EAF / LF supervisor.
Perform cleaning of rail tracks, scrap car, and scrap charging area, tapping pit trench, electrode stands, and walkways.
Assisting LF lead operator for cleaning of car tracks, material area, trench and roof.
Perform the activities like gunning, fettling, cold ramming, EBT re-piping, EBT changing, end brick changing, lining repairs and door electrode changing along with his fellow men / refractory team.
Requirements:
Diploma in Metallurgy or higher
Minimum 4 years of experience in LRF Operation in a Steel Melting Plant.
United Steel Industrial Company (Kuwait Steel) was established in 1996 by Kuwaiti investors.In the four years that followed Kuwait Steel in collaboration with VOEST Alpine of Austria erected the first fully automated rolling mill in Kuwait. Its first rolling mill, which is built on a 40,000 square meter land area, has an annual production capacity of 750,000 metric tons of reinforcing steel bars with sizes ranging from 8mm to 40mm in diameter. Today, Kuwait Steel is composed of two rolling mill plants with a combined annual production capacity of 1.4 million metric tons and a steel making plant that produces 1.2 million metric tons per year. All steel plants are running full production capacities, catering to market demand.
