Job Description
Job Title: General Help
Department: Production
Reports To: Department Supervisor
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Summary:
Assist with production, machine operation, and general plant clean-up in the Production Department.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Convey cutting dies, ink, print plates, load tags, and dunnage to and from machine centers.
- Mount cutting dies and print plates on presses and cutters.
- Perform hand stacking and hand bundling.
- Feed baler.
- Perform rework.
- Run load formers to build units in bundles for shipment.
- Separate, collate, and count bundles of corrugated boxes and die cuts.
- Assist in machine operation.
- Train to operate various plant equipment, including set-up, running, and clean-up to set standards.
- Perform quality checks on product at various production stages.
- Input diary into HRMS.
- Input production information into Kiwi.
- Use and understand hard card for job production.
- Maintain a clean and orderly work area.
- Follow plant safety rules.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Note: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Supervisory Responsibilities: None
Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
- Education and/or Experience: High School Diploma or equivalent preferred and one year related manufacturing or warehouse experience.
- Language Skills: Must be able to read, understand, and communicate detailed and/or important instructions, including safety instructions, accurately, loudly, and quickly in English.
- Mathematical Skills: Basic mathematical skills required. Must be able to perform basic math, including adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, fractions, and percentages. Must be able to measure and record results accurately.
- Reasoning Ability: Good problem-solving skills and common sense.
- Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: None.
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Heavy Work: Exerting up to 100 pounds or more of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
- Visual Acuity: Preparing and analyzing data and figures, reading, skills in mathematics, computer readouts, visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, operation of machines (including inspection), using measurement devices, assembly or fabrication of parts at distances close to the eyes, where the seeing job is at or within arm's reach.
- Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, climbing onto trucks, etc. using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized. The amount and kind of climbing exceed that for ordinary locomotion.
- Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. The amount and kind of balancing exceed that for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
- Stooping: Bending the body downward and forward by bending the spine at the waist. Stooping does occur to a considerable degree and requires full use of the lower extremities and back muscles.
- Lifting: Raising objects from lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position. Lifting does occur to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.
- Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Talking does occur to a considerable degree and requires conveying detailed or important instructions, including safety instructions, to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds with no less than a 40 dB loss @ 500 Hz, 1,000 Hz, and 2,000 Hz with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make fine discriminations in sound, such as when making fine adjustments on machined parts.
- Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
- Walking: Move about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances.
- Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
- Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force to thrust forward, downward, or outward.
- Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force to draw, drag, haul, or tug objects in sustained motion.
- Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working primarily with fingers rather than the whole hand or arm as in handling.
- Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
- Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
- Repetitive Motions: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
- Visual: Color, field of vision, peripheral, and depth perception of an object(s).
- Kneeling: Bending legs at knees to come to a rest on knee or knees.
- Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending the leg and spine.
- Crawling: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Both inside and outside environmental conditions: Activities occur inside where there is protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes, and outside where there is no effective protection from weather.
- Extreme Cold: Temperatures below 32 degrees for periods of one or more hours.
- Extreme Heat: Temperatures above 100 degrees for periods of one or more hours.
- Noise: There is sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above the ambient noise level.
- Vibration: Exposure to oscillating movements of the extremities or whole body.
- Hazards: Include a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, swinging loads, electrical current, working on high places, and exposure to high heat or exposure to chemicals.
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By applying to this job, as part of our typical recruiting process, from time to time, we may contact you regarding positions that we feel are a good fit for you or engage with you during the recruiting process via SMS text message. Message and data rates may apply, depending on your mobile phone service plan. At any time you can get more help by replying HELP to these texts, or you can opt-out completely by replying STOP. Our Terms of Service are available at
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