Press Operator III - KR

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

• 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.

Job Description

• Set up, adjust, operate and maintain a variety of presses including 40" Heidelberg, Komori, 64" and 81" KBA sheetfed presses. 
• This includes inserting packing sheets on plate cylinder to build up plate to printing height, fastening reinforcing bars to offset blankets, and installing plates and blankets on press cylinders, making adjustments to achieve pressure required for printing.
• Adjusts press machine parts, such as feeder and delivery mechanisms, suction grippers, guides, feed wheels, jogging devices, tapes, and cams, using hand tools.
• Removes and replaces worn rollers and adjusting pressure between rollers of press, using hand tools.
• Wash blankets and cleans ink and ink distributing rollers and ink fountains, using ink solvent and cleaning mechanism on press.
• Makes necessary color or register corrections and/or press adjustments prior to production run to meet and maintain the quality specifications of the work.
• Requires comprehensive knowledge of offset presswork procedures and materials. 
• Ability to read and follow job specifications to determine press set-up materials needed to run the job successfully. 
• Skill to follow instructions to operate equipment safely and produce the desired product.
• Ability to make adjustments to feeder and feed board (e.g., ability to adjust suctions and blast, front and side guides and the timing of the head stops). 
• Skill in performing routine operational maintenance and minor repairs to equipment.
• Ability to instruct and provide guidance to junior level operator.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of KBA large format technology highly preferred
• Must be able to work in a team environment. Ability to make and read measurements.
• Ability to communicate in English -read, understand and carry out written instructions.
• Ability to understand verbal instructions.
• Standing 100% of the entire time.
• Lifting up to 50 lbs occasionally, 35 lbs. frequently.
• Requires thorough knowledge of offset printing procedures, materials and specifiactions, equipment, and safety requirements and skills to perform assignments
• Skill to read and understand job specifications and knowledge of press capabilities to determine the most appropriate press usage, press settings and materials needed to run the job successfully
• Skill to make a variety of difficult precise settings of controls, settings, and adjustments, and to perform routine operational maintenance of equipment
• Skill in routine operational maintenance and minor repairs to equipment
• Knowledge of the appropriate amount of packing pressure needed to obtain the proper printing pressure for the type of job being run
• Skill in use of micrometer to mount and align the printing plate correctly
• Minimum 2 years previous experience setting up and running sheet fed presses
• Previous experience in the operation of a sheet fed press equipment

Shift:  

Nights: 7:00PM - 7:00AM  (3$/hr Shift Differential)

• Front End rotation: Monday-Wednesday OT on Sundays
  • Or
• Back End rotation: Thursday -Saturday  OT on Sundays

Days: 7:00 AM - 7:OO PM

• Front End rotation: Monday-Wednesday OT on Sundays
  • Or
• Back End rotation: Thursday -Saturday  OT on Sundays

Additional Information

The pay range for this role at the noted location is $29.30 to $43.50 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 [a sign-on bonus of $X,XXX], 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.

RRD is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans

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