Press Operator

OneTouchPoint

United States, Wisconsin, Hartland

1225 Walnut Ridge Drive (Show on map)

Jan 24, 2025

General Summary: The Sheetfed Press Operator, under the direction of the Press Manager, performs daily press procedures; such as keeping a continuous supply of paper prepped in the feeder; keeping the ink fountains full; keeping consistent ink balance while maintaining registration. Must have a working knowledge of offset production environments.

Essential Duties:

Have an understanding of job tickets.
Keep a continuous supply of paper in the feeder.
Use a densitometer to maintain consistent ink coverage over long periods of time.
Install and remove plates, blankets, and jackets on the press.
Keep ink fountains on the press unit full and stirred.
Make-readies and the running and maintenance of the press.
Ability to set up a feeder and delivery.
Perform basic maintenance to the press.
Set the water lines.
Wash up ink roller train and set rollers. Ensure wash up trays are placed in the units and the press is restarted.
Put the labels back on unfinished skids and wrap the skids with shrink-wrap for identification purposes or re-box unused stock.
Maintain proper chemical balance for fountain solution units.
Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work space at all times.

Marginal Duties:

Perform duties of the Jogger when required.

Work with maintenance department on major press and auxiliary equipment maintenance.
Assist in other departments as needed.
Keep press line and pressroom area clean.
Retrieves paper skids from inventory when Materials Handler is unavailable.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, job tickets, and procedure manuals.

Ability to speak effectively and respond to questions from managers, customers or employees of organization.
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.
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Overall familiarity with Press room procedures and workflow.
Requires the ability to operate various tools, devices, and equipment including hand tools, hoist, loupe, RGS, densitometer, scale, splicer, and calculator.
Must have an understanding of ink and water balance and average mechanical ability to perform maintenance and troubleshooting skills with regard to press malfunctions.
Good leadership skills and ability to be open-minded.
Flexibility in doing a variety of jobs.

Physical Demands: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to stand, use hands and fingers to handle or touch; Talk or hear; frequently required to walk, stoop, kneel or crouch; occasionally required to reach above shoulders; climb or balance; use foot/feet to operate machinery.

The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds; frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds; occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, distance, color, peripheral vision, depth perception, ability to focus.

Work Environment:

The noise level in the work environment is moderate to loud.

The above statements reflect the general details necessary to describe the principle functions of the occupation described and shall not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be inherent in the occupation.