Assistant - Bag Machine - Gateway Packaging Company LLC : Job Details

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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 five core values that are the basis for our success: Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, Involvement and Impact. The safety and health of our team is our top priority. ProAmpac has taken great steps to provide all personal protective equipment and sanitizing supplies to create a safe and healthy work environment for you.

ProAmpac is looking for you to join our team!

What ProAmpac has to offer:

• Quarterly Attendance Bonus
• Off weekends
• Premium pay built into your shift schedule
• Paid Time Off (PTO) with 2 additional personal days
• 11 paid company holidays
• 401k with company match
• Medical, Dental, Vision, and other supplemental offerings
• Company-provided life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement

The Assistant Bag Machine Operator's is responsible for assisting in the overall operation of the machine ensuring the quality and efficiency of the bags created by the bag machines. The primary responsibility consists of assisting the operator in running and managing the machine that automatically measures, prints, cuts, folds, and glues, or seals to form bags.

Essential Duties and Tasks:

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

• Assist operator in threading materials from parent roll through guides and rollers to cutters, gluer, printer, folding device, or electric sealer.
• Assist in starting machine, observes operation, and adjusts machine to ensure uniform shearing, printing, folding, gluing, or sealing of continuous roll of material into finished bags.
• May insert shaft into core of parent roll and secure with steel collars, using hand tools, and mount roll onto machine, using hoist.
• Assist in Operating machine in proper manner, maintaining high production and a quality product, with minimum waste, while maintaining set goals of machine speeds
• References work orders for paper supply, and requisitions paper from the warehouse when necessary.
• Assists in diagnosing problems on machines and corrects immediately, to keep smooth production flow.
• Performs daily maintenance on machine including: oiling machine, cleaning drum area of machine, re-taping, and scraping down.
• Communicates well with other operators and teammates at shift change.
• Adheres and maintains equipment to all GMP and SQF regulations at all times.
• Ability to multi-task as well as work in a fast-paced manufacturing environment

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)