Contract Sewing Machine Operator Jobs in Missouri

1st Shift 7am-3pm Mon-Fri

Summary

Operates machines in the Converting and Finishing Department to rewind and slit materials into rolls of specified widths and lengths depending on customer requirements.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Reads and understands work orders to determine customer product requirements.
• Sets up, adjusts, and runs equipment to meet customer requirements.

• Retrieves material specified on work order by using rolling carts or forklift.

• Adjusts machine parameters to specified width of material as required.
• Mounts master roll of material on machine, supports and threads material over tension bar, between feed rollers, and under rotary blades.
• Notifies supervisor of shortages, quality issues or additional slit rolls to be converted.
• Inspects product during slitting process and accepts it if it is within quality specifications.
• Follows procedures for rejecting material if product is not of proper quality.
• Processes all paperwork and computer data to complete customer orders.
• Coordinates with material handling to ensure material packaging meets specified requirements.
• Coordinates with material handling on material movements required to meet shipping and/or stocking requirements.
• Maintains equipment and cleans work areas.
• Conducts safety inspections of work area prior to and during shift.
• Supports other departmental activities such as cutting cores, operating power cutter, and helping in Line Packaging area.
• Performs any other activity as required for by Management.

Competencies, Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Must be able to follow written and oral instructions
• Must be able to use various measuring tools such as scales, rulers, graduated cylinder, and other laboratory devices.
• Proficient math skills including the ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Physical demands include; regularly required to stand, walk, talk or hear and climb ladders with great heights. The employee is frequently required to; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds with assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Education and/or Experience

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED). (Preferred)
• 1-year manufacturing experience preferred experience in operation of various machine consisting of slitting, sheeting, cutting or converting.

Disclaimers:

• The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
• It is the policy of Mactac that all employees are employed at the will of Mactac for an indefinite period and are subject to termination at any time, for any reason, with or without cause or notice. At the same time, employees may terminate their employment at any time and for any reason.
• Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, pregnancy, genetic information, creed, citizenship status, marital status or any other consideration prohibited by law or contract.