Printing Press Team Lead - 3rd Shift

Multi-Color Corporation Recruiting•Knoxville, TN
•Onsite

About The Position

The Printing Press Team Lead supports the manufacture of printed labels, ensuring production goals, product quality, safety, and efficient press operation. The role assists press operators with production and color-matching issues, conducts spot checks, trains new press and turret operators, and may operate a press when needed. The Team Lead covers the production floor when the supervisor is absent and may help supervisors make production-floor decisions. The role completes press make-readies according to job tickets and product specifications, using the correct print cylinders, inks, substrates, tooling, and anilox rollers. It performs required quality checks and maintains consistent quality during production, including copy, color, registration, ink adhesion, and other specification checks. The role follows procedures and work instructions under the BRC standard, completes equipment maintenance and cleaning, and accurately records material usage, time, stop observations, non-conformances, and shift reports in Radius. The position requires adherence to plant and corporate safety rules, reporting safety concerns, maintaining a clean and safe work area, and participating in production meetings and floor activities. MCC describes itself as a global premium-label manufacturer with facilities across more than 25 countries and more than 12,000 teammates.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or GED.
  • Ability to stand; use hands to finger, feel, and touch; reach with arms and hands; and talk and hear.
  • Frequent walking; occasional climbing or balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling.
  • Ability to regularly lift or move up to 50 pounds.
  • Close, distance, color, and peripheral vision; depth perception; and ability to adjust focus.

Responsibilities

  • Adhere to plant and corporate safety rules, procedures, and guidelines, and report safety concerns to the immediate supervisor.
  • Maintain a clean and safe work environment by completing daily housekeeping assignments and finding or fixing production-floor hazards.
  • Participate in startup meetings, assist the supervisor with meetings, attend War Room meetings and Gemba walks, and answer press-related questions.
  • Perform production job and rewind signoffs, and sign off on HxH and SQDC boards.
  • Assist press operators with press issues and color-matching issues, and work with kitting to ensure jobs are correct.
  • Conduct spot checks to help ensure press operators are producing quality product.
  • Help supervisors make production-floor decisions when necessary and cover the production floor when the supervisor is absent.
  • Operate a press when needed to meet production goals.
  • Train new press operators and turret operators on production procedures.
  • Input stop observations, non-conformances, end-of-shift reports, and other production reports in Radius.
  • Complete press make-readies according to job tickets and product specifications, ensuring the correct cylinders, inks, substrates, tooling, and anilox rollers are used.
  • Complete required quality checks, including product specification, visual, functional, and press-side checks.
  • Operate presses to meet customer specifications while maintaining quality, waste, and press efficiency.
  • Maintain consistent production quality, including copy, color, registration, ink adhesion, and other required checks.
  • Follow procedures, work instructions, and quality measurements required by the BRC standard.
  • Complete press make-readies efficiently and perform required equipment maintenance.
  • Clean plates, cylinders, and ink pans, and lubricate the press as needed.
  • Enter material usage and time information accurately and promptly in Radius.

Benefits

  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • Life insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Paid holidays: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, the day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and two floating holidays
  • Competitive compensation dependent on experience
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