Field Equipment Operator 

Location: Hillsborough North Carolina

Role Summary

Are you ready to help shape the future of sustainable manufacturing? This newly created role is a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of RHI Magnesita’s recycling initiatives. As part of a fast-moving and collaborative team, you’ll drive the logistics and coordination that make our recycling pipeline work—from sample sourcing to processor engagement and cost analysis.

As an Industrial Equipment Operator at our Hillsborough location, you'll play a vital role in operating and maintaining machinery used to crush and grind raw materials. Your contributions are essential to ensuring seamless operations and delivering top-quality products.

What You’ll Do

• Gets direction from plant manager on what product and sizes to be run.
• Monitors and operates equipment in a safe and efficient manner to ensure continuity of flow and to detect malfunctions.
• Uses controls to start, stop or adjust equipment that crushes and sizes material into the proper silos.
• Examine materials or products visually with sampling devices to ensure conformance to specifications and reports any issues to plant manager.
• Record data from operations, testing and production on specified forms and delivering samples to lab to be tested at specific intervals.
• Makes continuous rounds to check conditions and adjusts controls so that system performance is optimized.
• Recognizes and mitigates operating difficulties to reduce downtime and reports any issues to the plant manager.
• Responsible for equipment cleaning, inspection, lubrication, troubleshooting and diagnostics of equipment.
• Responsible for operating a forklift as needed to perform various duties in the plant including loading trucks.
• Responsible for bagging into super sacks or 50 lb. bags on occasion.
• Keep required daily safety documents.
• Other tasks as need

What You Bring

• Strong commitment to MSHA and RHI Magnesita safety principles and practices.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment.
• Willingness to learn and take on new responsibilities.
• Capability to understand and follow both oral and written instructions.
• Effective time management skills for both personal tasks and team coordination.
• Strong communication skills, including active listening, thoughtful questioning, and respectful interaction.
• Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, and techniques for efficient manufacturing.
• Understanding of production methods and how to coordinate people and resources effectively.
• Proficiency in basic math skills.
• Ability to monitor gauges and indicators to ensure proper equipment operation.
• Problem-solving skills to identify and resolve equipment issues.
• Ability to perform routine maintenance and lubrication, and to assess maintenance needs.
• Physical capability to walk or stand for extended periods and lift up to 50 lbs. repeatedly.
• Comfort with climbing and working at heights.
• Forklift operation experience.
• Familiarity with using hand and power tools.
• Previous experience in an industrial or manufacturing environment is preferred.

What We Offer

• A chance to help build a new function from the ground up
• High visibility across teams and leadership
• Opportunities to shape sustainable practices in industrial recycling
• A collaborative, mission-driven environment with room to grow
• The excitement of a role that blends fieldwork, strategy, and impact

About RHI Magnesita

RHI Magnesita is the leading global supplier of high-grade refractory products, systems and solutions which are critical for high-temperature processes in a wide range of industries. Serving customers around the world, RHI Magnesita has more than 20,000 employees in 65 main production sites (including raw material sites), 12 recycling facilities and more than 70 sales offices.

RHI Magnesita’s team in North America helps build refractory products that solve the most extreme manufacturing challenges. From advanced lithium-ion batteries for laptops and EVs and specialized glass on smartphones and tablets, to the steel and cement that build the world around us, our high-performance bricks and linings make it possible to melt, bend, shape, and refine these materials at extreme temperatures.

With a vertically integrated value chain, RHI Magnesita has helped forge the materials that build industries and economies for almost 200 years. Refractory products are essential to the production processes for cement, steel, aluminum, and many other industrial producers in the region.

Come get fired up with our North American team!
North America | RHI Magnesita