Operator - Converting

Job Description

Job Description

ProAmpac is a leading global flexible packaging company with comprehensive product offerings. Providing creative packaging solutions, industry-leading customer service and award-winning innovation to a diverse global marketplace. We are guided in our work by four core values that are the basis for our success : Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement.  We bring brand owners and packaging experts together to generate fresh thinking, accelerate advanced technology and increase speed-to-market, package customization and consumer differentiation. Our expertise is rooted in shared core values grown from the heritage of our small businesses and strategic acquisitions. Collectively, we are stronger and more responsive, with a broader geographic footprint.  Together, we are ProAmpac, the trusted leader in global change in the packaging industry.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made, upon request, to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Inspect and examine printed products for print clarity, color accuracy, conformance to specifications, and external defects.
• Reposition printing plates, adjust pressure rolls, or otherwise adjust machines to improve print quality, using knobs, handwheels, or hand tools.
• Set and adjust speed, hot melt temperature, ink flow, and positions and pressure tolerances of equipment.
• Examine job orders to determine details such as quantities to be printed, production times, stock specifications, colors, and color sequences.
• Select and install printing plates, rollers, cylinders in machines according to specifications, using hand tools.
• Monitor construction of bags, feeding, and printing processes of presses to maintain specified operating levels and to detect malfunctions, adjusting as necessary and notifying a supervisor of any problems.
• Operate equipment while maintaining minimum run speed, and ensuring the quality of bag construction, proper ink coverage, alignment, and registration.
• Notify a supervisor immediately of all needed repairs.
• Immediately notify a supervisor or manager, any instances of insubordination, improper behavior or performance problems regarding his / her crew.
• While wearing the proper protective equipment, clean and lubricate machines and components, using lubricate, grease, brushes, rags, hoses and compressed air.
• Move all heavy or awkwardly packaged materials, using hand trucks, forklifts, or hoists, to transfer them to finishing or designated areas.
• At all times, Follow ALL safety rules / regulations contained in the TULSACK employee handbook.
• Direct and supervise the activities of workers, inspecting, and packaging the product manufactured on their assigned machine.
• Monitor stocks of materials such as paper, ink and glue to maintain supplies during equipment operation.
• Change bag size by using specific tools and written standards for size changes.
• Maintain records of goods produced and waste accumulated during his / her shift.
• Requisition supplies, materials, and equipment and receive stock.
• Supervise and assist as needed, the packaging of bags and labeling of cartons, boxes of finished products to maintain quality standards and reduce waste.
• Place spools twine or paper and thread through machines.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)