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.

• Responsible for setting up, operating, and slitting paper rolls to produce materials used in the sack making process.

• Works with minimal supervision while following instructions from production adjusters, supervisors, productivity coordinator, and plant manager.

• Review work orders, blueprints, specifications, or job samples to determine components, settings, and adjustments for cutting and slicing machines.

• Type instructions on computer keyboards, push buttons to activate computer programs, or manually set cutting guides, clamps, and knives.

• Remove defective or substandard materials from machines, and readjust machine components so that products meet standards.

• Press buttons, pull levers, or depress pedals to start and operate cutting and slicing machines.

• Adjust machine controls to alter position, alignment, pressure and run at the highest speed possible while safely making a quality product.

• Maintain production records, such as quantities, types, and dimensions of materials produced.

• Monitor operation of cutting or slicing machines to detect malfunctions or to determine whether supplies need replenishment.

• Start machines to verify setups, and make any necessary adjustments.

• Remove completed materials or products from cutting or slicing machines, and stack or store them for additional processing.

• Select and install machine components such as cutting blades, rollers, and templates, according to specifications, using hand tools.

• Move stock or scrap to and from machines manually, or by using carts, handtrucks, or lift trucks.

• Clean and lubricate cutting machines, conveyors, blades, saws, or knives, using steam hoses, scrapers, brushes, or oil cans.

• Feed stock into cutting machines, onto conveyors, or under cutting blades, by threading, guiding, pushing, or turning handwheels.

• Position stock along cutting lines, or against stops on beds of scoring or cutting machines.

• Start pumps to circulate water and abrasives onto blades or cables during cutting.

• Change or replace saw blades, cables, cutter heads, and grinding wheels, using hand tools.

• Mark cutting lines or identifying information on stock, using marking pencils, rulers, or scribes.

• Position width gauge blocks between blades, and level blades and insert wedges into frames to secure blades to frames.

• Tighten pulleys or add abrasives to maintain cutting speeds.

• Cut stock manually to prepare for machine cutting, using tools such as knives, cleavers, handsaws, or hammers and chisels.

• Sharpen cutting blades, knives, or saws, using files, bench grinders, or honing stones.

• Wash stones, using water hoses.

• Responsible for maintaining sufficient slit materials inventory to prevent production downtime.

• Weigh all waste from slitter production, record all waste and production on a daily basis in the DBH log.

• Responsible for replenishing log sheets.

• Responsible for recording on the DBH board all production and associated with production from their machine.

• Record and calculate percentages of waste, recorded on the DBH board.

• Responsible for following all documented standards and policies.

• Operators must have supervisor approval before performing any duty or task which does not follow TULSACK standards or policies.

• Responsible for taking safety precautions at all times and NOT reaching into a machine while the machine is running.

• Responsible for making sure the machine area is free of trash, waste and debris on a daily basis by using good housekeeping skills and cleaning tasks during the work shift.

• 2nd Shift

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)

Job Category: Operations/Production/Manufacturing

Full-Time