Doctor Winder Operator

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 Americas awards for 12 years in a row.

About the role

Identifies and segregates defective material within individual slit rolls. Combines leftover good material into finished rolls and palletizes for shipment to the customer.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate on-the-job training and instruction for team members on the correct use of tools and equipment to ensure proper safety and operating procedures are followed.
• Mounts slit rolls of product onto the shaft of the machine using a lift cart. Removes rolls as well.
• Sets up and makes necessary adjustments to the machine.
• Identifies defects and splices good material together per specification.
• Reads and understands specifications of products being run. Must know packaging materials required for palletizing finished product.
• Occasionally uses hand tools to prepare packaging materials.
• Completes daily production reports.
• Operates stretch wrap machine to wrap finished pallets.
• Regularly cleans machine and surrounding area.
• Actively participates in safety programs and makes safety observations. Follows plant safety rules.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED). Dr. Winder experience a plus.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel.
• Occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and talk or hear.
• May require manual lifting not to exceed 50 lbs (reference department-specific JHA for lifting restrictions).
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

• Regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts.
• Occasionally exposed to vibration.
• Moderate noise level in the work environment.

Schedule

2-2-3 Schedule: 7am - 7pm OR 7pm - 7am

Pay

$25.46 - $26.21 per hour