Press Operator

Position Summary The Press Operator sets up and operates printing press to print designs or lettering on corrugated sheets. They are also responsible for feeding the press, maintaining ink, and cleaning and returning all print tooling.

This position also delivers on our core focus of:

• The answer is yes. Be a solutions provider

While building on our core values of:

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

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Examines work order to determine work instructions
• Reads job order and mounts specified rubber plate and printing dies on vinyl and metal backing
• Washes and stores used print plates in proper location
• Packages and documents customer-owned plates for return when requested by the customer
• Maintains ink storage area
• Cleans rubber plate
• Observes all safety policies and procedures, including Lock-Out-Tag-Out rules
• Ability to work in excess of 40 hours, as business needs arise
• Regular and reliable attendance
• Any other task or duty that is deemed necessary by 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
• Has energy and enthusiasm
• 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, and crouch; talk and hear
• Ability to regularly lift up to 20 lbs. frequently 20-35 lbs. occasionally, more than 35 lbs. rarely, over 50 lbs. requires team or mechanical assistance
• Vision abilities required include close vision, color vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus
• Regular exposure to moving mechanical parts
• Exposure to a loud environment
• Exposure to wet and/or humid conditions and fumes or airborne particles

Systems Usage

• ERP system Kiwi
• ADP Workforce Now

Qualifications

• 18 years of age or older
• GED or high school diploma