Press Utility Operator

About the position

At American Packaging Corporation (APC), you’ll find the packaging career you’ve been looking for. With competitive salaries, excellent benefits, 401(k) plans and tuition reimbursement programs, we nurture our employees while advancing and promoting diversity and inclusion. As the leading flexible packaging converter in North America for over a century, APC’s longstanding success is fueled from the inside out. We’re constantly seeking to improve our internal operations and were named a “Best of the Best” in the Best workplaces in the America’s awards for 12 years in a row. It’s how and why we engage the best and brightest talent to continue propelling our shared success into the future.

Responsibilities

• Participates in training, embrace concepts of and actively practice the STOP Safety Program fundamentals to aid American Packaging Corporation’s efforts to achieve a zero-accident rate.
• Retrieves all necessary set up information/specifications/guidelines and follows instructions on the job jacket.
• Completes all machine changeover/set-up processes minimizing machine downtime and meeting or exceeding set-up standard requirements.
• Develop set up procedure documentation as required.
• Correctly completes daily production sheets, process condition sheets, waste logs, final release forms, ink paperwork and quality inspection logs.
• Ensure job order information corresponds with the product being manufactured.
• Safely, efficiently and effectively assists with the assigned production machinery equipment monitoring quality, production and waste adhering to all customer specifications.
• Ensures immediate work area and work areas for which Machine Operator has responsibility are free of clutter and debris.
• Perform all cleaning/sanitation responsibilities, safely using all required cleaning solutions and protective equipment.
• Removes rolls from rewind, hangs rolls on rewind, makes up doctor blades, preps print carriages, brings correct inks and lacquers to the press, configures ink ratios, disposes of ink, solvents and lacquers, maintains ink viscosities and cuts cores.
• Ability to operate the viscosity control system.
• Ensures all required on-line quality data is properly documented.
• Monitors all quality requirements as outlined by company procedure and specification.
• Completes necessary sheets for quality checks.
• Actively participates in safety programs and completes required safety observations.
• Understands and follows plant safety rules.
• Attends and participates in all scheduled meetings (Continuous Quality Improvement, safety, special projects, departmental, etc.).
• Able to work all scheduled shifts and required overtime hours.
• Trains new employees as necessary.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Previous manufacturing experience preferred.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Excellent benefits
• 401(k) plans
• Tuition reimbursement programs