Baler Operator

Position Summary

As a Baler Operator at Akers Packaging Service Group, you will be responsible for operating and maintaining balers used in the recycling and waste management process. Your role is essential in managing and processing materials efficiently and in an environmentally responsible manner. This position also delivers on our core focus of:

• Service Matters
• Relationships Count
• Performance Delivered
  
  

While Building On Our Core Values Of:

• Help 1st
• Take ownership.
• Do the right thing.
• Expect excellence.
  
  

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Machine Operation: Manually feeds corrugated scrap into the hogger to break down material. Operates the baler to compact and process recyclable materials into wire-bound bales.
• Material Handling: Operate a fork truck to retrieve corrugated scrap from designated locations. Ensure the proper loading of materials into the baler, optimizing capacity and efficiency.
• Maintenance: Monitors the operation of the dust collection system and performs routine cleaning to ensure optimal machine performance, and promptly report any malfunctions or issues to maintenance.
• Safety Compliance: Adhere to safety guidelines and maintain a safe and organized work area.
• Quality Control: Maintains raw material or tooling, follows quality standards and maintains housekeeping.
• Waste Management: Ensure that waste materials are properly stored and processed for disposal or recycling.
• Documentation: Completes paperwork as required. Maintain accurate records of baler operations, activities, and recycling data.
• Team Collaboration: Work closely with the production team to assist the flow of materials and products. Assist team as necessary and perform other duties as assigned by supervisors and plant management.
  
  

Cultural Competencies

Help First Means Being a Reliable Team Member Serving Everyone, Internally And Externally. At Akers, We Believe And Exhibit a “roll Up Your Sleeves And Get The Job Done” Mentality And Behavior. No Job Is Unimportant, And No Person Is Above Any Job. We Demonstrate This Through:

• Able communicator—good clarity, balanced talker, and listener
• Has energy and enthusiasm.
  
  

Take Ownership means That You Think And Act Like An Owner. No Matter The Role, Everyone Is Empowered To Be a Good Steward Of The Organization. Each Person Has The Autonomy To Make Recommendations For Improvement To Their Work And The Organization. We Demonstrate This Through:

• Patient
• Effectively assertive and able to handle conflict and confrontational situations.
• Solution vs. blame oriented
• Mixture of firmness and flexibility
• Holds self and others accountable.
  
  

Do the Right Thing means that you do the right thing for the customer, regardless of its popularity. Doing the right thing at the right time requires a person to have and exhibit high moral standards.

• Systematic trainer, willing and able to develop people.
• Good work ethic, task focused and willing to extend extra effort.
• Able to follow structure where it exists and create structure where it does not.
  
  

Expect Excellence Means That You Think And Act Like An Owner. No Matter The Role, Everyone Is Empowered To Be a Good Steward Of The Organization. We Demonstrate This Through:

• Resilient—able to deal with the unexpected, not easily flustered.
• Has sense of urgency.
• Follows up to ensure quality task completion.
  
  

Work Environment / Physical Demands

Fast paced environment, requiring adaptation to continuous changes in Company, Customer and People needs.

• Ability to frequently stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl.
• Ability to regularly lift 10 pounds, occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, ability to adjust focus.
• Regular exposure to moving mechanical parts.
• Exposure to a loud environment.
  
  

Systems Usage

• ERP Systems such as (Harry Rhodes Managing System (HRMS), Kiwi, Amtech, Parabox, etc.)
• ADP
  
  

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• 18 years of age or older
• GED or high school diploma, 1-3 months experience or combination of education and experience
• Mathematical skills required for counting, measuring, reading, and converting data.