Job Description

Are you an experienced Machine Jobsetter / Operator and looking for a good change? If so, come work at a great place and build your career with ProAmpac a leading global flexible packaging company with comprehensive product offerings. We provide creative packaging solutions, industry-leading customer service and award-winning innovation to a diverse global marketplace.

We are located in Cheektowaga, NY, in a newly air-conditioned facility, and we are seeking a qualified Set-Up Technician for the 1st shift

The Bag Setup Technician is responsible for setting up the bag machines, which convert rolls of film into bags/pouches for each job order. This position makes adjustments to the bag machines to ensure machines are running, producing quality pouches, and achieving maximum efficiency.

Schedule: Monday through Friday: 7AM to 3PM and will require weekend overtime when necessary.

This is a Temp to hire role.

Pay Range: $20 - $21 per hour, depending on experience. As you learn each level, your pay will increase with skill adjustments when training is signed off even while a you are a Temp!

Once hired as a ProAmpac employee, we have a full benefits package!

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Paid parental leave
• Life Insurance
• Generous 401k company match!
• Paid vacation
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid Lunch Break!!
• Safety shoe and glasses allotment
• Generous employee referral program
• ProAmpac’s Employee Assistance Fund
• And much, much more.

Responsibilities:

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

• Set up bag machines according to customer orders by making appropriate adjustments to the bag machines, changing rolls promptly, and ensuring a constant supply of materials for the bag operators.
• Troubleshoot and fix set up issues to ensure a quality pouch is being produced.
• Communicate with bag operators to ensure staying on production schedule and continuous operation.
• Operate the bag machines while the operators are at lunch or break.
• Organize the workplace by using a hand truck to move the finished product to the correct location, record and dispose of scrap and garbage, and maintain work area per Safe Quality Food requirement by the end of the shift.
• Assist with special projects as required.
• Train new employees in the different job functions in the bag department.
• Work effectively with all departments to develop multi-functional solutions for customers.
• Maintain a customer-focused perspective in all bag operating functions to ensure that customer needs are successfully met.
• Perform job duties accurately so that other personnel and departments, and customers, receive correct information and/or product.
• Adhere to all ProAmpac policies and procedures to ensure safety, quality, and appropriate conduct within the workplace.

Qualifications, Education and Experience

• High school diploma or equivalent education.
• Minimum of 5 years as a bag operator or other equivalent experience.
• Strong mechanical ability to make finite adjustments to machinery and use tools to help with these adjustments.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute ratio and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Excellent communication, organizational and multi-tasking skills to communicate effectively with Bag Operators and other personnel.
• Ability to read, comprehend and write, and effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers or fellow employees.
• Ability to carry out instructions given in written, oral or diagram form and to handle problems involving several variables in standardized situations.
• Strong ability to communicate professionally with others.
• Knowledge of flexographic packaging is a plus.

Work Environment

Work primarily in a manufacturing or warehouse environment. Hearing protection, safety shoes, vision protection and other necessary PPE as required.

May be exposed to non-toxic/nuisance smells from chemicals, inks, airborne dust, moving mechanical parts, high noise levels and hot/humid environmental conditions in the manufacturing area.

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 essential functions.

This role will regularly use plant machinery, for which certification may be required. This role routinely works around moving equipment and standing for long hours. May need to get on and off equipment, stairs, routinely use standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. Employees are regularly required to stand; walk; use hands/fingers to type, hold, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. Employees must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.