# Refractory Technician - Shift Lead

HWI has a fantastic opportunity to join our Value Added Services Team as a Refractory Technician - Shift Lead. Summary The Refractory Technician - Shift Lead is a customer facing, labor-intensive position skilled in lining, relining and repairing furnaces, ladles, and tundishes. This position ensures the safety and health of the crew and is a hands-on leader performing direct tasks while also providing production updates to the Lead Refractory Support Specialist. Responsibilities Running the shift’s day to day activities including: Coordinating scheduling of the shift and allocate resources appropriately, adjusting equipment resources, anticipating and performing break coverage, coordinating and performing general maintenance on HWI equipment, ensuring quality checks are performed as required Reading and interpreting refractory lining drawings; using brick saw and bricklaying equipment to lay brick up in ladles, furnaces, tundishes, etc.- handle bricks by hand for multiple hours at a time - perform plug changes, repair slide gates, etc.; teaching installation procedures to and providing guidance to correct procedures Assisting with cleaning and preparing ladles, furnaces, tundishe

- **Id**: 4086131
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/calderys-refractory-technician-shift-lead>
- **Role**: Field & Service
- **Role family**: Field & Service
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Middletown, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T12:57:02Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T18:57:44Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3792
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advanced Materials, Glass & Ceramics Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 93345
- **Name**: Calderys
- **Domain**: calderys.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/calderys>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 71
- **Open postings**: 95
- **Ghost share**: 0.484
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 35
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: high_school
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T18:57:44Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 35
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T20:09:05Z

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