Cold Mill Metallurgist

Job Details

Division:
Nucor Steel Decatur LLC

Location:

Trinity, AL, United States

Other Available Locations: N/A

Date Posted: 1/6/2026

Deadline: 1/21/2026

Welcome to Nucor, where our unique culture sets us apart. Joining Nucor means becoming part of North America's largest steel and steel products manufacturer, offering unmatched career opportunities and stability. We are known for our innovative sustainability practices and are the continent's largest recycler. Our vibrant culture, built on personal connections and teamwork, empowers every team member with the freedom to innovate and contribute to our collective success.

Experience a workplace where safety, efficiency, and meaningful personal connections define every day, enriching both our teammates and the communities we serve.

Nucor supports its teammates with top-tier benefits like Medical, Dental, Vision, and Disability Insurance, 401K and Roth accounts, Profit sharing, Pay-for-performance bonuses, Paid parental leave, Tuition reimbursement, Stock program, Scholarships and more.

Provide metallurgical and engineering support, process development and technical support for Cold Rolling Mill as assigned, to ensure optimization of manufacturing processes for continuous sheet galvanizing line production, for customer specific requirements including manufacturing reliability, operations, and maintenance requirements. Apply metallurgy knowledge, rolling technology expertise and data analysis skills to estimate steel transformation and simulate mill conditions. Generate temporary instructions and lead assigned trials.

Evaluate steel chemistry and mechanical processing parameters to ensure physical properties are met. Evaluate performance for all materials in contact with the steel sheet, as well as provide customer technical support, including but not limited to scale breaker rolls, pinch rolls, flattener rolls, submerged rolls, Umlauf bridles, bridle rolls, tension leveler rolls, trimmer knives, work rolls, backup rolls, tensiometer rolls, shape meter rolls, knock down rolls, hold-down rolls, entry sticker guides, belt wrappers, deflector rolls, squeezer rolls, steering rolls, brush rolls, furnace rolls and looper rolls.

Provide technical support for activities that drive improvements of product cost, quality, and process performance. Design and implement equipment modifications in the Cold Mill, Hot Mill and/or Galvanizing Line to improve operations. Prepare data extraction and cost, failure and rolling statistical data analyses on synchronized data to drive daily decision making in Cold mill/Galvanizing production. Monitor and analyze rolling process and equipment conditions using data acquisition software ibaPDA and iba Analyzer, SQL coding to monitor, analyze rolling process, and equipment conditions.

Relate synchronized data from different equipment to assess process behavior and draw conclusions to drive equipment maintenance, improvements, and upgrades. Generate solutions that satisfy customer needs. Coordinate technical assessments with Rolling Technology vendors to improve product quality and process KPI, by optimizing the existing rolling equipment and/or developing and implementing new technologies in the Cold Mill. Evaluate current equipment conditions against OEM (original equipment manufacturer) design to assess any undesired deviation from original equipment standard.

Identify areas of opportunity to improve yield in steel processing and reduce scrap generation. Define critical processing parameters control limits and engineer automatic detection of parameters deviations to ensure customer requirements are met. Participate in cross functional technical teams of different operating departments to identify and correct root causes of quality and performance issues, ensure process optimization, and foster continuous improvement within the mill.

Generate SQL code to link and extract data from different product and process databases. Perform statistical analysis to draw conclusions that impact product quality and process KPI. Perform task risk assessments to identify safety hazards and communicate findings with team to…