Metals Production Utility Operator
Ready to build a career in steel? If you thrive on hands-on work, care about safety, and want room to grow, this entry-level Utility role could be your next move.
Your Challenge
Can you learn fast, think critically, and step into different areas of a steel mill as needed? You’ll support production and service units across our Mon Valley locations—one application covers Clairton Works, Irvin Works, and Edgar Thomson Works.
What a Shift Can Look Like
- Use hand and pneumatic tools, gauges, oxygen lances, power-actuated tools, and torches to prepare and process materials.
- Move and position raw materials and finished products using approved procedures and, with experience, mobile equipment.
- Assist with equipment inspections and basic maintenance to maximize uptime.
- Work around hot, heavy, sharp, and sometimes chemically hazardous materials; at times near molten metal.
- Adapt to changing environments—hot or cold, wet, greasy, dirty, and noisy.
- Lift and carry items exceeding 25 lbs as part of daily tasks.
Growth Path
After brief on-the-job training, you’ll progress toward operating material handling equipment: overhead and mobile cranes, tractors, trucks, dozers, loaders, boom trucks, feeders, and more.
Must-Haves
- High School Diploma or GED.
- Ability to work rotating 8-hour shifts—including weekends and holidays—with overtime as needed.
- Dedication to safety procedures. Required PPE: hard hat, safety glasses, hearing protection, protective clothing, metatarsal boots, and a respirator when necessary.
- Dependable attendance, punctuality, and self-direction.
- Pass a pre-employment digital assessment.
How We Operate
Our culture is built on three habits:
- Think: apply critical thinking and lead change.
- Lead: develop others and collaborate across teams.
- Do: enable high performance and deliver results.
Who We Are
U. S. Steel has set the standard since 1901. We’re the first North American steelmaker to commit to a 2050 net-zero greenhouse gas emissions goal. Our products power everyday life across automotive, construction, containers and packaging, appliances, and energy sectors. We invest in our communities with partnerships, charitable contributions, and employee volunteer programs—and we put safety first. We are United by Steel.
Recognition We’re Proud Of
- Newsweek’s Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces® (2021, 2022, 2023)
- Equality 100 Award – Human Rights Campaign Foundation (2020–2023)
- Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion – Disability:IN (2021–2023)
- World’s Most Ethical Companies® – Ethisphere (2022–2023)
- Best for Vets: Employers – Military Times (2023)
- Mansfield Certification recognizing DEI progress in Legal (2023)
EEO Statement
Conducting business with integrity and with the highest ethical values has underpinned U. S. Steel’s success for over 100 years, and it remains critical to our company’s success in the future. U. S. Steel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) according to job qualifications without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, genetics, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, disability status or status as a protected Veteran or any other legally protected group status. (California residents may visitwww.ussteel.com/CANoticeregarding collection of personal information and U. S. Steel's privacy practices.)