Baler Operator

RR Donnelley•Durham, NC

7d•Onsite

About The Position

RRD is a leading global provider of marketing, packaging, print, and supply chain solutions that elevate engagement across the complete customer journey. The company offers the industry’s most trusted portfolio of creative execution and world-wide business process consulting, with services designed to lower environmental impact. With 22,000 clients, including 93% of the Fortune 100, and 32,000 employees across 28 countries, RRD brings the expertise, execution, and scale designed to transform customer touchpoints into meaningful moments of impact. This role involves tending machines that shred and/or compress and bind paper by-products generated from the print manufacturing process to facilitate the disposition of waste materials. Responsibilities include threading tie bands, removing bales from the machine, and transporting them to storage. The operator will also perform routine maintenance, complete daily forklift condition reports, and record bale weights and material grades. Additional duties may include loading bales for shipment, completing shipping manifests, and photographing containers for verification.

Requirements

2 years of work experience in a manufacturing environment
Requires knowledge of standard set ups, adjustments and operating characteristics of the equipment and skill to perform standard adjustments and operate the equipment
Ability to set up, operate, and perform basic adjustments to the equipment according to the individual job requirements, operating characteristics, and capabilities of the equipment

Responsibilities

Tend machines that shred and/or compresses and binds paper by-products generated from the print manufacturing process to facilitate disposition of the waste materials
Thread tie bands around bale and twists or clamps ends of bands to tighten bands
Open compression chamber doors and removes bale from machine
Truck bales to storage location using air lifts, pallet jacks or hoist trucks
Complete daily forklift condition report
Weight the bales and keep records of the gross weight, materials grade of the bales
Perform routine maintenance on the baling machinery and remove obstructions in the cyclone as needed
May load bales on trucks, rail cars for disposal and complete shipping manifest
May photograph container and seal for verification purposes