- Shift Differential: $1.50
The Set-Up Operator prepares and adjusts downstream production equipment to work-order specifications, ensuring accurate, consistent product with minimal startup scrap.
Responsibilities
- Set and verify Corona treater gaps and wattage to work-order specifications; inspect electrode alignment and treatment consistency; coordinate dyne testing with Quality Control (QC) when required.
- Safely change and install Maxson blades; set blade widths and sheet lengths to work-order requirements, and adjust belt speed, air knives, pull-roll air pressure, and tension for accurate cuts and clean stacking.
- Prepare equipment for startup; route initial trim and scrap properly, keep startup scrap out of finished pallets, and verify pallets, slip sheets, and labels are staged before full-speed production.
- Perform periodic QC checks, identify downstream sheet defects, and make authorized adjustments to limit waste.
- Communicate equipment issues, defects, and adjustments to Extruder Operators, QC, and teammates; document key details at shift handoff.
Requirements
- Nice to have: Experience in manufacturing
- Nice to have: Machine operation
- Nice to have: Plastics
- Nice to have: Extrusion
- Nice to have: Converting