Interstate Packaging

Job Summary: The HP Digital Printing Press Finisher is responsible for completing post-press finishing operations for digitally printed products while ensuring quality, productivity, and safety standards are met. This position performs finishing processes such as laminating, slitting, rewinding, sheeting, die cutting, trimming, inspection, packaging, and preparing finished products for shipment. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, mechanically inclined, and committed to producing high-quality products in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Production: 

• Be at workstation within 3 minutes of reporting time
• Perform finishing operations on products produced by digital printing presses
• Set up, operate, and adjust finishing equipment including slitters/rewinders, laminators, die cutters, sheeters, trimmers, rewind systems, and packaging equipment
• Perform visual and dimensional quality inspections throughout production
• Identify print or finishing defects and notify supervision
• Maintain roll identification, labels, and documentation
• Monitor equipment performance and perform routine adjustments
• Stay busy when machine is down

Job Prep & Wrap-Up:

• Read and interpret work orders, job tickets, specifications, and production schedules
• Verify materials, dimensions, and specifications before beginning each job
• Assist with preventative maintenance and equipment cleaning
• Stage next job’s materials
• Clean up and any other procedures related to the completion of jobs

Safety & Compliance:

• Adhere to all required safety practices, including use of PPE, lockout/tagout, and machine guarding procedures
• Ensure compliance with facility food safety (GMP), product safety, and quality standards
• Performs job in manner that protects the health and safety of all employees
• Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work area using 5S and GMP

Communication & Collaboration:

• Communicate issues to lead operator
• Complete production paperwork accurately
• Properly make computer entries
• Work with and Quality personnel
• Record readings (speed, scrap counts, basic QC checks) as instructed
• Follow chain of command from supervisor to department manager to plant manager, etc…
• Cross-train on additional equipment

Required Qualifications:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Previous manufacturing or mechanical experience
• Ability to distinguish between subtle color variations (Not colorblind)
• Ability to lift 40-75 lbs. without the assistance of a hoist or mechanical device
• Ability to stand for long periods of time, bend, stoop, and climb
• Ability to perform repetitive hand and arm movements
• Ability to push/pull carts and material rolls
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, physically active environment
• Strong mechanical aptitude and ability to work with complex press equipment
• Basic math skills and ability to read rulers, tape measures, micrometers, and gauges
• Basic reading skills necessary to properly understand production orders, reports, warning signs, etc…
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail under production demands

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience operating finishing equipment
• Experience in digital printing, labels, flexible packaging, or commercial printing
• Experience operating slitters, rewinders, laminators, or die cutters

Essential Physical & Cognitive Functions:

• Must be able to distinguish subtle shades of colors accurately in order to match samples and color designations in orders
• Must be able to lift 50 – 75-pound air shafts without the assistance of a hoist and must be able to manipulate 100 – 300 pounds with the assistance of mechanical devices
• Must be agile (bending, stooping, squatting, climbing, etc.) in order to climb up on machine, move cylinders, adjust equipment and avoid dangerous moving machinery
• Must have a good sense of smell to distinguish odors from materials and smell smoke in case of fire 
• Must have good hearing to follow directions and coordinate procedures with fellow employees and to hear warning signals
• Reflexes must be in excellent condition for quick response time on moving machinery to avoid serious injury to his/her or other employee’s limbs or other life-threatening injuries
• Must be completely alert at all times to operate machinery in a proper manner
• Must be able to read a ruler and have other general math skills to measure roll diameters, roll widths, package sizes, etc…
• Must have directionality to distinguish right and left sides of machinery and to follow operating instructions from other employees and from written instructions
• Must be able to comprehend and follow detailed instructions without constant supervision 
• Must be able to communicate operating problems to supervisor
• Must have spatial skills, which can be applied to judge dimensions necessary for operation of machinery
• Must have mechanical ability to learn how the machine operates
• Must be able to carry out machine procedures in an initial sequence and repeat that procedure on future orders in a similar manner or with alterations
• Must be able to record information electronically as required by accounting
• Must have maturity and disposition to always operate machine safely 
• Must understand and be able to implement safety emergency procedures and follow all standard safety procedures
• Must be able to interact with and follow instructions from quality control or management to maintain specified quality standards  
• Must be able to do meticulous work under production demand