PrePress Operator

About the role

Description For over a century, American Packaging Corporation (APC) has been a leading flexible packaging converter for customers throughout North America. We nurture our employees by providing competitive salaries, excellent benefits, 401(k) plans and tuition reimbursement programs. These are just a few reasons why we were named a “Best of the Best” in the Best Workplaces in the Americas awards for 12 years in a row. APC’s longstanding success is fueled from the inside out, and we consistently seek to improve our internal operations to propel that success into the future.

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.
• Participate and embrace in the STOP Safety Program fundamentals and adhere to all safety guidelines and rules to aid APC’s efforts to achieve a zero-accident rate.
• Print and understand each job’s Job Jacket, Print Specification, and Manufacturing Specification and take to the press.
• Retrieve daily production schedule that identifies which job will run, quantities, priorities, etc. Interpret and act upon information. Detect, report, and resolve all missing or substandard machine parts.
• Use an automated storage system terminal to retrieve and return cylinders and anilox to storage.
• Cook with the Mounting Dept with respect to the production schedule and the staging of jobs.
• Aid on press set-ups as needed. Assist miscellaneous housekeeping and cleaning responsibilities.
• Complete required reports and paperwork. Use a computer terminal.
• Perform required cleaning tasks - some daily, weekly or monthly requirements.
• Operate daily a core cutter to produce accurate size cores for each scheduled print job.
• Obtain Power Industrial Truck license(s).
• Effectively communicate with coworkers throughout all shifts.
• Attend and participate in all company mandated meetings.
• Business travel may be required.
• Any other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); and one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• 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 detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, and toxic or caustic chemicals. Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.