High Steel Service Center has a 200,000-square-foot facility with 150,000 tons of capacity. A full-line metal processor and distributor, High Steel Service Center offers carbon steel, aluminum flat rolled, and stainless steel products. 

We are actively seeking a utility operator to join our 2nd shift operations, Monday - Friday from 3:00 pm - 11:30 pm and our 3rd shift operations, Monday - Friday from 10:30 pm - 7:00 am.

Positions start at $19.00/hr and pay a $2.00/hr shift differential. 

Utility Operators will perform a variety of duties including truck loading, order pulling, skid building, machine operating and general material handling. They will be required to operate overhead cranes, sideloaders and forklifts to move materials around the facility. The utility operator will be required to rotate through positions on a regular basis as needed to meet customer demand. 

Areas of responsibility for our utility operators:

• Operate material handling equipment to mover, lift, or load materials. 


• Trains, guides, and provides ongoing assistance to new hires and other team members.


• Oversee the assistance of a helper for processing operations, as needed.


• Use banders, computer workstations, calculator, small hand and power tools.


• Accurately complete any necessary paperwork. 


• Measure and check materials for proper specifications


• Operate a variety of machines on an as needed basis

Work experience and additional qualifications:

• High school diploma or GED


• Proficient in basic math, including fractions and decimals


• Ability to work as part of a team and as an individual contributor


• Previous manufacturing or warehousing experience, required


• Previous experience operating a sideloader, forklift, and/or overhead crane, required


• Ability to drive a tractor trailer, preferred


• Previous experience with truck loading, preferred but not required


• Valid PA driver's license is required


• Ability to work overtime, up to 60 hours per week, is required

Working for The High Companies: 

• Excellent benefits including medical, dental and vision available for full-time coworkers. Vacation is offered to regular full-time coworkers and is earned annually on your anniversary date. You may carry over a portion of your hours into the next anniversary year 


• 401(k) Retirement Plan with a company match 


• Tuition Assistance with 100 percent reimbursement for approved courses and degree programs which are job related and approved in advance by your supervisor 


• Employee Assistance Program provides professional, confidential assistance for any type of personal issue you or your eligible dependents are experiencing 


• High Family Foundation Scholarship is awarded annually to the children of High co-workers working at least 1,000 hours per year and employed for at least two years. Recipients are awarded $4,000 for each year they are enrolled in a two- or four-year accredited degree program 


• Good Measure Award is presented periodically to an individual or team from each of the High companies who exemplifies The High Philosophy and who has gone above and beyond normal job responsibilities to provide "Good Measure". 

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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