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• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Vision insurance

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Position: Stacker Operator

Full Time Position

• Perform quality work within deadlines with or without direct supervision.
• Interact professionally with other employees, customers and suppliers.
• Work effectively as a team contributor on all assignments.
• Work independently while understanding the necessity for communicating and coordinating work efforts with other employees and organizations.

Position Summary:

The Stacker responsible for all activities associated with stacking the equipment and helping the operators including setup, operation, cleanup, and recommending improvements to operations.

Responsibilities/Duties/Functions/Tasks

• Read and follow instructions on factory masters. 
• Set-up bundler, hold down arm, load former, and delivery end of machine accurately in accordance with proper setup techniques. 
• Secure proper cover sheets, tie sheets, and load tags for production runs.
• Stack finished boxes in accordance with factory master.
• Ensure each unit has proper top and bottom cover sheets, tie sheets, and load tags 
• Monitor quality of boxes and report quality problems to Operator
• Assist operator and first helper as necessary.          

• Be willing to move up the line of progression to operator regardless of shift.

• Ensure correct bundle and unit counts.

• Report final count of piece unit to operator.

• Complete necessary reports in an accurate and timely manner.

• Turn in maintenance work orders to supervision for needed repairs.  Be proactive in the maintenance of equipment.

• Comply with all company policies and procedures, including safety and maintaining good housekeeping.

• Helps operators adhere to production schedule.  Makes recommendations for optimizing the schedule to meet cost, quality and service goals.  Reports any unusual scheduling issues to Supervisor.

• Perform other related duties and responsibilities as required. 

Qualifications

• HS Diploma/GED
• Good Work History
• One year of experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Ability to work with a team

Work Requirements

LANGUAGE SKILLS –

• Ability to read and follow written and oral instruction.  Ability to communicate effectively with customers, employees, and outside officials to the company. 

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS -

• Able to read a tape measure with speed and accuracy.  Able to calculate figures and amounts such as percentages, measurement, volume and rate.  Able to apply concepts of high school math.

REASONING ABILITY -

            Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or graphic form.  Ability to deal with problems involving one or more concrete variable in standardized situations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS -

The individual must have a working knowledge of the following:

• Equipment design and capabilities that can be translated into efficient operation. 
• Product layouts and production specifications
• Product quality specifications
• Quality standards

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the functions of this job.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and talk or hear. 

• The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. 

• The employee is occasionally required to sit. 

• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. 

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

Pratt is America’s 5th largest corrugated packaging company and the world’s largest, privately-held producer of 100% recycled containerboard, with more than 9000 highly-skilled, green-collar employees dedicated to the environment and sustainability.

Pratt was founded in the USA more than 30 years ago and, since then, has shown dramatic growth with sophisticated manufacturing facilities in more than 27 states.