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Press Straightening Operator- Heat Treatment
LOCATION: Houston - Texas - USA
DEPARTMENT: INDUSTRIAL OPERATIONS
Press Straightening Operator
Purpose
Performs the operation of straightening pipe heads and ends, in a safe and efficient manner according to applicable procedures, complying with defined quality standards.
Main Responsibilities
- Commit with health, safety and environmental policies and notify situations that present potential risk.
- Ensure product quality complying with defined standards and reporting deviations.
- Carry out duties in an efficient manner meeting productivity and efficiency standards in accordance with minimum costs.
- Perform activities according to applicable procedures.
- Complete and update all applicable records ensuring information accuracy and product traceability.
- Ensure proper use of the company assets, detecting and reporting malfunctioning.
- Attend and collaborate in training activities in ordered to maintain and increase the company knowledge.
- Proactively suggest improvements and participate in continuous improvement activities.
- Maintain a clean and ordered workplace.
- Perform activities understanding their consequences on the global process.
- Abide by Tenaris discipline norms.
Main Activities
- Executes change over and set up of the machine.
- Places pipe heads or ends in the machine.
- Controls pipe straightness with a comparer.
- Detects parts to be straighten.
- Operates the press straightener.
- Performs pipe heads and ends straightening and sizing.
- Carries out pipe visual and dimensional control.
- Ensures instruments are in good condition checking their expiration date and correct functioning.
- Assists machine lock outs and tag outs and does operative maintenance.
- Updates information in the tracking systems.
Minimum Qualification for the Job
- Ability to work rotating shift to include nights and weekends
- Previous Heat Treatment experience preferred
- Product Inspection when applicable
- Certification when applicable.
If your experience and knowledge match our requirements, please apply
Tenaris is an equal opportunity employer, valuing diversity in employment.
We thank all candidates for their interest, however, only those that match the criteria required for the desired profile will be contacted

Tenaris is a leading supplier of tubes and related services for the world’s energy industry and certain other industrial applications. Our mission is to deliver value to our customers through product development, manufacturing excellence, and supply chain management. Tenaris employees around the world are committed to continuous improvement by sharing knowledge across a single global organization.
Our customers include most of the world’s leading oil and gas companies as well as engineering companies engaged in constructing oil and gas gathering, transportation and processing facilities. Our principal products include casing, tubing, line pipe, and mechanical and structural pipes.
Tenaris employs around 29,000 people from more than 25 countries. From the moment they enter the company, our employees follow a career plan specially designed to meet their professional goals. TenarisUniversity, Tenaris’s corporate university, offers high-quality, job-specific curricula and development plans that help them succeed in the many challenging assignments faced during their careers.
Our employees work in a culturally diverse setting that enriches their professional as well as their personal lives. As part of our fundamental corporate values, Tenaris offers our employee an active participation in a long-term, sustainable industrial project.
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