Web Operations Manager Jobs in Appleton, WI (NOW HIRING)

RRD is a leading global provider of marketing, packaging, print, and supply chain solutions that elevate engagement across the complete customer journey. The company offers the industry’s most trusted portfolio of creative execution and world-wide business process consulting, with services designed to lower environmental impact. With 22,000 clients, including 93% of the Fortune 100, and 32,000 employees across 28 countries, RRD brings the expertise, execution, and scale designed to transform customer touchpoints into meaningful moments of impact.

RRD’s Green Bay facility is seeking a highly skilled Printer Operator to join our high-volume direct marketing print facility. In this role, you will be responsible for setting up, adjusting, operating, and maintaining multi-color, roll-fed web offset presses (and/or gravure machinery). You will manage high-speed, continuous-feed production runs to deliver complex marketing materials that demand strict color values and flawless registration from hairline to critical tolerances.

Key Responsibilities

Press Setup & Make-Ready Tasks

• Job Specification Review: Thoroughly review job tickets and layout proofs to determine the optimal press setup, ink sequence, and web paths required for the continuous roll-fed run.
• Make-Ready Execution: Perform all critical web make-ready tasks, including hanging printing plates or installing cylinders, prepping blankets, threading the paper web through the press units, and setting up the folder/finishing line.
• Precision Mounting: Utilize a micrometer to accurately measure, mount, and align printing plates. Check for correct positioning of images and examine plates/cylinders closely for imperfections before starting the run.

Web Press Operation & Quality Control

• High-Speed Production: Set up, adjust, and safely operate web offset or gravure presses to produce single-color, two-color, and multi-color work featuring large solids, screen tints, line work, and halftones.
• Web Control Management: Continuously monitor and adjust web tension, guiding systems, and moisture-to-ink balances to maintain steady paper flow and prevent web breaks.
• Critical Registration & Color: Dynamically make necessary color corrections, ink-key adjustments, and register tweaks prior to and during production to hit exact client specifications and maintain hairline tolerances.

Maintenance, Repair & Safety

• Routine Maintenance: Clean, lubricate, and maintain the web press daily to maximize machine uptime and prevent ink skinning or roller damage. Perform periodic preventative maintenance recommended by the manufacturer.
• Mechanical Repairs: Diagnose mechanical issues during the run, make major operational adjustments, and perform minor repairs or replace worn/broken components (such as knives, packing, or slitter blades) as required.
• Safety & Compliance: Maintain comprehensive knowledge of and strict compliance with all pressroom safety requirements, including lock-out/tag-out protocols and safety guard regulations around fast-moving webs. 

Shift Premium: $3hr

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Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Print Expertise: Deep, comprehensive knowledge of roll-fed printing procedures, ink/water chemistry, paper web behavior, dryer temperatures, and finishing specifications required to run complex jobs successfully.
• Mechanical Aptitude: Advanced skill in complex manipulations and mechanical procedures required to troubleshoot, adjust, and perform routine maintenance on high-speed web equipment.
• Production Planning: Proven capability to read and understand complex job specifications, matching them against known press capabilities to determine the most appropriate settings, web paths, and raw materials needed.
• Precision Tooling: Demonstrated skill in using micrometers, densitometers, and automatic registration controls to align plates and measure ink density.

Experience & Qualifications

• Minimum of 1 year of experience operating multi-color or Gravure presses. Sheet-fed experience alone will not be considered.
• Strong color vision and an acute eye for detail to instantly catch web shifts, dynamic registration errors, or color drifting at high speeds.

Disclosure Statement:

The pay range for this role at the noted location is $24.15 to $38.00 per hour. The actual rate of pay offered may vary based upon, but not limited to: education, skills, experience, proficiency, performance, shift, and location. In addition to base salary, depending on the role, the total compensation package may also include, overtime, shift differential, call-in, and stand-by pay. RRD offers benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, disability insurance, 401(k) with match, life insurance and other voluntary supplemental insurance coverages, plus tuition assistance, maternity leave, adoption assistance, and employer/partner discounts.

All employment offers are contingent upon the successful completion of both a pre-employment background and drug screen.

RRD is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans