Team Leader: Bar Heat Treatment

**About the role**
We are searching for a Team Leader to join our Bar Heat Treatment Department.

This key leadership role holds responsibility for the shift operations within the heat treatment areas of the business, and will be overseeing the safety, performance, and maintenance/ planning of shift personnel and quality product output. The heat treatment team ensures materials are treated in accordance with specifications and optimised furnace loads, for best balance of production schedule and furnace capacities.

Your expertise in planning and stakeholder management will be key to your success in ensuring there is sufficient heat treated bar available, for the continuous operations of other departments. The heat treatment team ensures materials are treated in accordance with specifications and optimised furnace loads, for best balance of production schedule and furnace capacities.

Key responsibilities will include;
- Bar Heat Treatment:

- Coordinate operational resources to meet the schedulers plan for required size and grades to be heat treated in the available furnaces
- Schedule maintenance for all furnaces and furnace bearers
- Stock control of pre-heat treatment feed bar
- Coordinate transportation of feed bar, both pre-and post heat treatment
- General Heat Treatment:

- Liaising with internal Product Metallurgists to ensure heat treatment is conducted in accordance with the specifications for particular products
- Prepare for hardness testing of heat treated products
- Coordinate furnace availability and product storage and transport
- Customer Ingots:

- Liaise with internal stakeholders to arrange storage and preparation of customer and axle ingots for receipt and transport
- Liaise with external Transport companies to coordinate loading and unloading of ingots and forgings
- Team Leadership:

- Manage ongoing team performance, training, and development to achieve optimal productivity
- Review and approve timesheets and leave requests
- Team development and ensuring relevant SOPs are signed off
- Identifying and coaching our ‘next leaders’
- Lead projects, including improvement, special orders and development
- Continuous Improvement
- Monitor departmental data and identify process improvement opportunities
- Make recommendations to management on the beneficial initiatives
- Lead the design and implementation of initiatives to address these issues
- Ensure change management processes are managed efficiently and with mínimal resistance

**About you**
The team leader of this role is required to demonstrate the following key attributes:

- Qualifications and experience within a mechanical engineering or a mechanical trade (essential)
- Demonstrated experience within heavy industry is preferred
- Extensive experience in operations management within a manufacturing setting
- Demonstrated experience in leading a multi-disciplined team
- Experience interpreting data and trends, and making recommendations on timely and cost-effective solutions
- A strong background in planning and scheduling processes
- Demonstrated role modelling of safety behaviours and excellent safety outcomes within a manufacturing environment
- Sound computer literacy (Microsoft Office suite)

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a successful global organisation in a period of growth and change, whilst being supported to develop your leadership skills in a positive culture and have a real impact on the success of your team and the organisation.

**Why work for Molycop**
We value and empower our employees because your success is our success. We’ve built a business culture that seeks to employ diverse, talented and dedicated teams that continue to grow with us to create a better future.

Through working with us your employee benefits include:

- Discounted gym memberships
- An onsite subsidised cafe
- Free employee parking
- Novated Leasing
- Career development opportunities

**About us**:

- Molycop is a global market leader in the production and supply of grinding media, mining chemicals and rail consumables. The company has built a strong reputation over many years for producing high quality products with maximum durability. Designed to resist wear and deliver exceptional performance to mining assets to customers’ operations in key mining regions of North and South America and Australasia._
- In Newcastle we make low-carbon steel and are at the forefront of sustainable manufacturing globally. We employ electric arc furnace steelmaking technology utilising raw materials with more than 90% recycled content and have built a long-term partnership with UNSW SMaRT Research Centre to commercialise innovative recycling technologies._
- Whilst internationally Molycop has over 1800 employees, in Australia we have around 600 employees based in Newcastle (Waratah NSW), Cootamundra (NSW) and Bassendean (WA). We rely on our highly skilled and knowledgeable teams of employees to perform their work safely and effectively whilst cont