Metallurgist II - Process
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Nucor Steel South Carolina is seeking a Metallurgist for a technical role shaped by plant needs and the candidate’s experience. The work focuses on process and product metallurgy, improvements, problem-solving, and customer complaint resolution. The candidate will train toward a rolling-process or melt-shop process/metallurgical engineering position and must support production outside normal business hours and travel as business needs require.
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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.
Basic Job Functions:
Nucor Steel South Carolina (Darlington) is seeking a Metallurgist interested in taking on a technical role based upon the needs of the plant and the candidates experience. Job functions will be a direct process/product metallurgy, product/process improvements, problem-solving projects throughout the facility, and customer complaints and claims resolution. Other functions may include grade development for specialized applications, providing training to teammates, metallurgical assistance to technical service representatives and customers, and continuous improvement of the quality management system. Must be willing to support production outside normal business hours and travel to customer or Nucor locations as business needs require.
This candidate will be expected to train into a rolling process engineer/metallurgical position or melt shop process/metallurgical engineering position.
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. (Nucor will not sponsor the need for a visa now or in the future).
Safety is the most important part of all jobs within Nucor; therefore, candidates must be able to demonstrate the ability to initiate, lead, and uphold safety policies, practices, procedures, and housekeeping standards at all times.
Minimum Qualifications:
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BS degree in Metallurgy, Material Science, or a related engineering or scientific discipline.
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Minimum of two (2) years of direct process manufacturing experience in the steelmaking industry, including experience with rolling, melting, or bar products. Relevant Nucor internship experience will be applied toward this requirement.
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Demonstrated working knowledge of steelmaking, refining, casting, and/or rolling processes.
Preferences:
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Preferred Experience: 2 or more years in metallurgy, materials engineering, manufacturing, quality, or related technical disciplines.
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Wire rod product experience, special bar quality exposure on automotive quality, non-destructive testing (eddy or ultrasonic) of round bar.
Nucor is an Equal OpportunityEmployer and a drug-free workplace
How this job compares
Set against the 3,290 open Process Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- South Carolina median$92–137K/yr35 salary ranges
- US median$38–50/hr250 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 58 open Process Engineer jobs in South Carolina and 3,290 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in South Carolina
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Process Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years at the median (2,616 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 2,177 of the 3,290 open Process Engineer jobs (66%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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