Overview
Looking for a hands-on manufacturing career with a company that values quality, teamwork, and safety? Join us as a Screen Printing Press Operator and become an essential part of a team dedicated to producing secure printed products. In this role, you will set up, operate, troubleshoot, and monitor a Kinzel printing press to produce high-quality printed materials while meeting strict safety, quality, and productivity standards. You'll also perform finishing, inspection and shipping functions to ensure products meet exact specifications and production schedules. If you're mechanically inclined, detail-oriented, and take pride in delivering accurate, high-quality work in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, we'd love to have you on our team.
Essential Duties
- Working from specification sheets, prescribed procedures or verbal communication, perform all required set-up operations at multiple print stations to be run simultaneously.
- Ensure correct stock, screens, and inks are used.
- Make prescribed adjustments in feed stroke, squeegee levels, and length.
- Check tension to correspond with mesh requirements.
- Ensure color standards and AQS file are available on press.
- Start-up press and monitor registration and ink performance.
- Troubleshoot press and ink problems, making alterations to ink for acceptable viscosity and adjustments to press for corrections of defects; make prescribed adjustments to ensure proper indexing between the two print stations, where applicable.
- Utilize judgment in performing on-press inspection to ensure quality standards are met.
- Make appropriate notations and complete paperwork required and established in the printing press.
- Maintain effective communication with other department personnel to resolve press related problems and support workflow.
- Make effective recommendations for improved quality in product and process.
- Perform job and color changes assuring press is cleaned properly, screens are free of defects and images are clear.
- Report unusual or irresolvable situations to appropriate personnel within the unit or service department.
- Perform inspections, slitting and packing of products as needed.
- Maintain compliance with all safety, quality, and operational standards
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Our ideal candidate has a stable employment history, a positive and collaborative attitude, a desire to learn, and a demonstrated ability to work safely.
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- High School Diploma or equivalent preferred.
- Manufacturing experience preferred. Ideal experience includes hands-on experience setting up, operating, and troubleshooting multi-station printing.
- Must be able to read, understand and follow all relevant work instructions.
- Must possess basic math skills to carry out duties, most notably the ability to calculate percentages.
- Must possess basic computer skills allowing operation of Quality Control instrumentation, ink scheduling, and recordkeeping.
- Physical Requirements: Regular physical activity in a manufacturing environment, including constant walking, standing, twisting/turning, grasping and visual acuity; frequent bending/squatting, crawling, handling, manipulating small items, and carrying up to 40 lbs.; occasional climbing, reaching outward and/or above shoulders, sitting, and keyboarding. The role requires consistent mobility, coordination, and the ability to safely perform physical tasks throughout the
Pay: $22.00 - $25.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Employee discount
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
