Forge Process Operator

**Key Details**

**Work hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday 6:00am - 1:00pm**

**Location: Hillsborough, Sheffield**

**Job type: Permanent, Full-time**

Independent Forgings and Alloys (IFA) is one of Britain’s leading independent aerospace and industrial forgers. The unique feature about IFA is the combination of open and closed-die forging while also undertaking the whole production process from raw materialto the finished product in one location. Operating from a 680 000ft2 facility in Sheffield, we manufacture high-integrity, open-die and closed-die forged components in nickel alloy, titanium, stainless steel and carbon alloys for OEMs and tier-one supplierswithin the aerospace, nuclear, power generation, marine as well as oil and gas sector.

**Main Purpose of the Role**

Reporting to the Blades Production Supervisor, the purpose of this role is to produce close-die precision forgings using a variety of presses and other plant and equipment as training allows. Training will be provided to meet required skills standards andhealth and safety standards.

**Key Accountabilities**

You will ultimately be responsible for:

- setting up the relevant presses, including the use of methanol to set atmospherical levels;
- daily temperature checks on furnaces and presses;
- loadings and unloading rotary furnaces;
- Operating the presses and other equipment as required;
- Measuring and visual inspecting parts using various gauges and equipment.

**Skills and Experience**

**Essential**:

- Experience in closed-die hot working and handling hot metal.
- You will have extensive experience of using a multitude of processing equipment, including setting and operating close-die presses and screw presses, upsetters and extrusion presses.
- Inspection and measuring skills.

**Desirable**:

- Experience in linishing would be ideal
- Organized and self-motivated personality.

**Qualifications**

**Essential**:

- Basic education including Maths and English

**Desirable**:

- Forklift truck driver’s license. This is required for transporting tooling and other production parts using both a carriage attachment and forks.
- Basic Health and Safety understanding.
- NVQ Level 2 in manufacturing/processing

**Company principles and culture**

Our vision of success through integrity is supported by our core values:

- **Working safely** - safety is a priority in all that we do, both the safety of all on site and the provision of a safe product.
- **Teamwork** - by working respectfully together on teams across our business, we build great relationships, recognize outstanding contributions and create the environment for our highly skilled workforce to support our customers in meetingstheir requirements.
- **Always looking for improvement** - our teams are excellent at what they do and are constantly working to improve our processes.

**Why work for us?**

At IFA we pride ourselves on being a great place to work. As one of the UK’s leading steel manufacturing companies we want to ensure that we attract, motivate and retain the best people who can deliver the best service to the company and our customers.

**We offer you**:

- Competitive pay.
- Holidays - you will have 33 days holiday, including bank holidays.
- Pension scheme - IFA wants to provide its employees a good foundation for the life after work and hence offers a 5% contribution. The pension scheme comes along with further discounts on health, travel and rescue insurances.
- Bonus scheme - this is linked to team and company performance.
- Westfield cash plan - IFA provides level 1 health cash plan which comes along with numerous discounts and special offers, including gym discounts, online, high street and grocery retailers and many more.
- Death in service payment, full company sick pay and long service rewards.
- Tax efficiency schemes: Childcare vouchers and Cycle to Work.
- Free work wear and PPE.
- On-site parking is available.
- Focus on wellbeing and mental health awareness.
- Trust - we encourage you to come up with ideas and get the most out of your job with us.
- Development - we offer genuine development opportunities to progress your career.

**For further information please visit our company website.