About the Role
To prepare and stage press or laminator jobs, ensuring the safest, most effective, and efficient manner while adhering to established SOPs and quality standards. Prepress personnel may retrieve, prepare, and clean cylinders for press runs.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate on the job training and instruction for team members on the correct use of tools and equipment.
- Adhere to all safety guidelines and rules to aid APC’s efforts to achieve a zero-accident rate.
- Participate as a Subject Matter Expert in developing, understanding, and following Standard Operating Procedures and/or training documentation.
- Print and understand each job’s Job Jacket, Print Specification, and Manufacturing Specification and take to the press.
- Retrieve daily production schedule and 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.
- Coordinate with Mounting Dept with respect to the production schedule and the staging of jobs.
- Assemble and transport print cylinders and aniloxes between printing press and prepress departments.
- Install gears, journals, pans, applicator pipes, end shields, and splash guards into carriage units.
- Return units to prepress, remove parts, clean cylinders, and store them back into the storage system after a job has run.
- Aid on press set-ups as needed.
- Assist with miscellaneous housekeeping and cleaning responsibilities.
- Operate a core cutter to produce accurate size cores for each scheduled print job.
- Complete required reports and paperwork.
- Use a computer terminal.
- Perform required cleaning tasks.
- Obtain Power Industrial Truck license(s).
- Effectively communicate with coworkers throughout all shifts.
- Attend and participate in all company mandated meetings.
- Any other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
- 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.
- Regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and talk or hear.
- Frequently required to reach with hands and arm.
- Occasionally required to walk.
- Manual lifting not to exceed 50 lbs.
- Specific vision abilities required include close vision.
Skills
- STOP Safety Program
- Standard Operating Procedures
- Automated storage system terminal operation
- Power Industrial Truck operation
- Computer terminal usage
Location
- North America
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Entry Level (1-3 months experience)
Education Level
- High School Diploma or GED
Benefits
- Competitive salaries
- Excellent benefits
- 401(k) plans
- Tuition reimbursement programs
About the Company
- For over a century, American Packaging Corporation (APC) has been a leading flexible packaging converter for customers throughout North America.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- American Packaging Corporation is committed to equal opportunity for all, without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic.
- American Packaging Corporation will make reasonable accommodations for known physical or mental limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants with disabilities unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.
- EOE/AA Disability/Veteran.
