PreMake Ready (1st shift)

Cutting Pre-Make Ready & Die Room Job Summary

Average shifts are 12 hours per day, Monday through Friday. Employees must be flexible to work alternate schedules and overtime, including early mornings, nights, and weekends.

Primary Responsibilities

• Having Make Readies available ASAP
• Build / Repair die(s) and blanker(s)
• Proper press maintenance and lubrication
• Absorb and assist operators
• Housekeeping & AIB
• Scrape and cut plates for presses
• Assist pressman with make-ready
• Prepare next job to go on press
• Run cutting press when needed
• Other duties assigned

Qualification Requirements

• Excellent attendance
• Ability to work independently
• Perform tasks independently

Background / Experience

• Pre-Make Ready experience
• Die Cutting experience
• Mechanical experience
• Manufacturing experience

Language Skills

• Read and interpret documents
• Write routine reports and correspondence
• Speak effectively before groups

Mathematical Skills

• Add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure
• Compute rate, ratio, and percent
• Draw and interpret bar graphs

Reasoning Ability

• Solve practical problems
• Deal with a variety of concrete variables
• Interpret a variety of instructions

Physical Requirements

• Standing, depending on changing job assignment, continuously (100% of the time) for extended periods
• Awkward and/or repetitive movements
• Ability to bend, squat, crawl, reach above shoulder level and at waist or lower, twist, stretch, push and pull (up to 60 lbs. of force), carry, kneel, grasp, stop, crawl and finger occasionally (1-33% of the time)
• Climbing and walking frequently (34-66% of the time)
• Requires use of both feet on a continuous basis
• Requires use of both hands for simple grasping, firm grasping, fine manipulation and repetitive actions on a continuous basis
• Ability to read, write, hear, see, speak and have agility on a continuous basis
• Reading computer screen or other electronic devices
• Use of various hand and electrical tools and equipment
• Work in areas of fluctuating temperature
• PPE required: Steel-toed/safety footwear, Safety Glasses, Hearing Protection, Cut resistant Safety Gloves, Hair Net, Beard Net

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• Regularly works near moving mechanical parts
• Exposure to dust, fumes, heat, cold, vibration, toxic conditions, and potential work hazards
• Noisy environment
• Requires use of personal protective equipment (hearing protection, safety glasses, safety shoes, hairnet)

GPI's Benefit Program

• Competitive Pay
• 401(k) w/employer matching
• Health & Welfare Benefits - Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
• Short and Long-Term Disability
• Life Insurance
• Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
• Variety of Voluntary benefits
• Adoption Assistance Program
• Employee Discount Programs
• Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition Assistance Program
• Paid Time Off + 11 paid company holidays each year