Supervisor Furnace

About the Role

Al Tuwairqi Group is seeking a Supervisor, Furnace to oversee furnace operations in Dammam. This full-time role involves ensuring production control, coordinating the furnace team, and maintaining safety compliance. The Supervisor will also be responsible for technical monitoring and reporting on furnace performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor furnace operation across all shifts, from charging to discharging, ensuring heating practices meet required billet discharge temperature and uniformity.
• Review and validate daily heat-wise charging sequences for each furnace, ensuring correct execution and minimal deviations from the plan.
• Analyze furnace stoppages, delays, and yield losses, defining root causes using analytical tools and driving corrective actions.
• Allocate and supervise pusher operators, ejector operators, and senior furnace operators to maintain continuous operation and coverage.
• Plan shift schedules, rotations, and leaves to avoid manpower gaps and maintain furnace availability.
• Ensure effective communication between the furnace team, billet handling, main pulpit, maintenance, and shift-in-charge.
• Review shift reports for gas consumption, billet movement, and temperature trends, verifying completeness and accuracy.
• Monitor gas manifold station condition, furnace equipment status, and key SCADA parameters, escalating abnormalities to mechanical and electrical teams.
• Coordinate planned shutdowns, scaling campaigns, and inspection activities with production and maintenance.
• Enforce safety requirements, including PPE, safe access, hot-work controls, LOTO, and confined-space rules.
• Ensure work areas around furnaces are kept clean, organized, and compliant with 5S standards.
• Coordinate with Environmental, Reliability, and Loss Prevention teams for inspections, stack readings, and audits.
• Consolidate furnace information into daily or shift reports for the Mill Engineer / Production Manager.
• Identify opportunities to improve heating schedules, energy efficiency, and furnace reliability, and support the implementation of improvement actions.

Additional Duties

• Deputize for the Furnace Superintendent during their absence as assigned.
• Support training and onboarding of new furnace operators and senior operators.
• Participate in incident investigations and corrective-action follow-up related to furnace operations.

Qualifications and Experience

• 5-10 years of experience in a relevant field.
• Strong understanding of reheating furnace operation, fuel systems, and billet heating practices.
• Ability to read and interpret production plans, SCADA trends, and furnace performance data.
• Leadership and coordination skills for managing multi-shift furnace teams.
• Solid EHS awareness, particularly regarding gas-fired equipment, high temperatures, and hot-work hazards.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, within a dynamic industrial setting that requires adherence to strict safety and operational protocols.