Build quality, sheet by sheet
Help us deliver precision packaging by running and maintaining a Heidelberg sheetfed offset press while upholding Snyder’s safety and quality standards.
Your impact
- 80%: Make-ready and operate the Heidelberg offset press to Snyder Pkg. quality benchmarks.
- 10%: Hang/position plates; set ink and fountain solution levels; execute core offset press tasks.
- 5%: Enter production data; complete required forms.
- 5%: Clean, service, and perform routine maintenance on the press.
What you’ll do
- Read job layouts and translate specifications into press settings.
- Prepare the press for production: plates, ink/water balance, registration, and substrate checks.
- Run production and perform pre-determined pull checks for color, registration, and defects.
- Troubleshoot print, mechanical, and setup issues swiftly to sustain throughput.
- Document operating conditions and maintenance; submit maintenance requests as needed.
- Carry out additional duties and priorities from the supervisor and plant manager.
- Consistently adhere to Snyder’s safety procedures and quality requirements.
Minimum qualifications
- Experience operating offset printing equipment; strong color vision.
- Foundational shop math (add, subtract, multiply, divide).
- Intermediate English communication (read/write/listen/speak).
- Basic computer skills for data entry, typing, and printing.
- Measurement fluency, including accurate ruler reading.
Key competencies
- Mechanical aptitude and a practical mindset.
- Ability to spot print defects quickly.
- Resourceful problem solving.
- Understanding of printing, die cutting, and gluing workflows.
Physical demands
- Manual loading and some climbing while operating semi-automatic equipment.
- Active, varied tasks with repetitive and intermittent motions.
- Requires strength and good eyesight.
- Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
Work environment
General warehouse environment within a paperboard packaging facility; frequent reaching, bending, and lifting are part of the role.
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