Job Description
Elevation Recruitment Group are delighted to be working on behalf of a leading manufacturing business that produces and distributes high-performance alloys. They are seeking a Heat Treatment Operative to join their ever-expanding team at their Sheffield facility.
Shift Pattern
This role works on a 3-shift rotation, covering:
* Days: Monday to Friday, 6am–2pm
* Afternoons: Monday to Friday, 1pm–9pm
* Nights: Monday to Thursday, 8pm–6am
Duties and Responsibilities
* Carry out heat-treatment processes across a range of high-performance alloy products, ensuring each stage meets strict metallurgical and quality specifications.
* Operate furnaces, ovens, quench systems and related equipment, following controlled procedures for tempering, annealing, solution treatment, hardening, and stress relieving.
* Monitor temperature profiles, soak times and cooling rates, ensuring all parameters align with heat-treatment instructions.
* Perform accurate material identification before and after processing and immediately report any anomalies to the Chargehand or Heat Treatment Manager.
* Build, load, and break down charges safely, ensuring correct layout, spacing, and fixture selection to guarantee consistent results.
* Conduct straightening and Brinelling work as required, ensuring products meet dimensional accuracy and surface integrity targets.
* Maintain complete traceability and accurate administrative records for all processed material.
* Work efficiently to meet customer deadlines while complying with Health & Safety and environmental policies.
Skills and Experience
* Previous experience within a heat-treatment environment (metals or alloys) is highly desirable.
* Familiarity with furnace controls, thermocouples, quenching processes, and heat-treatment cycles would be beneficial.
* Forklift and side-loader training provided.
* Manual handling training provided.
* Strong attention to detail with the ability to follow process-driven work to high standards.
* Confident working in an industrial, production-based environment.
Benefits
* 25 days holiday + statutory bank holidays
* Westfield Health Cash Plan
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Cycle to Work Scheme
To apply or find out more, please contact Lauren at Elevation Recruitment Group.