Production Assistant

Duties And Responsibilities

• Assist in the set-up and operation of printing and die cutting to meet quality and productivity requirements.
• Complete production documentation in an accurate manner.
• Perform plate mounting onto plate cylinders to prepare each job.
• Maintain housekeeping standards, production equipment, and surrounding area.
• Perform packing, palletizing, and material handling tasks as needed.
• Perform product inspections to meet customer requirements.
• Perform core cutting as required.
• Follow all company safety rules and procedures.
• Assist with training as required.
• Maintain a safe and clean working environment.
• De-mount plates and strip-down cylinders.
• Clean plates, clean exit rollers, clean exit conveyors, and clean areas the product touches.
• Perform related duties as assigned by Supervisor.

Required Qualifications

• Able to lift up to 50 lbs.
• Attention to Detail
• Basic math and computer skills
• Manufacturing experience preferred
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and legibly complete time cards and work orders.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret technical procedures and read blueprints and technical drawings, such as machine, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and electrical.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small groups situations to other employees of the organization.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions form groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• 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.
• Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra, geometry, fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

Reasoning Abilities

• Solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variable in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form.

Physical Demands

• Frequently stand, walk, and talk or hear.
• Frequently use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.
• Sometimes sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Taste or smell.
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Frequent exposure to moving mechanical parts and vibration.
• Occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic, flammable or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; and extreme heat.
• Moderate noise level in the work environment.

Prior Experience

• Manufacturing experience preferred

Equal Opportunity

TekniPlex Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.