Come and elevate your career with a company that impacts many of the brands you see on store shelves today! Our Brooklyn Park, MN location has an opening for a Plate Maker 2. Successful candidates will have 1-3 years of photopolymer plate making experience. SGS&Co offers competitive pay, comprehensive benefit programs, paid holidays, and generous paid time off. Working in our climate-controlled environment, you will have the opportunity to learn multiple aspects of our unique manufacturing process. Bring your positive attitude, willingness to learn, and dependability and join SGS&Co. Can you picture yourself at the heart of a dynamic, future-focused team, helping to build and grow household-name brands around the world? Imagine seeing a product picked off a shelf, with the knowledge that you were a part of that process. That's what we do at SGS&Co. Start, grow, and build a career with us today!
- SHIFT: 1:00 PM - 9:30 PM Monday-Friday
- PAY: $25.00/hour plus $1.00/hour shift differential for 2nd shift
Essential Responsibilities
- Review job ticket instructions to determine requirements of job production.
- Make printing plates correctly and in accordance with customer needs and timing.
- Learn platemaking equipment: CDI, exposure, washout, dryer, and post-exposure units.
- Complete the plating tasks as assigned in the order entry system.
- Learn and understand the different types of vendors' plating materials used for job requirements.
- Learn and understand QC process for work performed.
- Participate in process improvement efforts and various production meetings to foster a positive, creative impact on the business.
- Attend all Environmental Health & Safety training sessions and other company-wide and departmental meetings.
- Keep work area clean and organized.
- Read and understand Safety Data Sheets (SDS).
- Follow all personal protective equipment (PPE) procedures.
- Follow departmental standard operating procedures (SOP).
- Work overtime when requested by management.
- When handing off jobs to co-workers/next shift, clearly communicate any information for job completion.
- Assist with additional responsibilities as directed by management.
Education, Experience & Certification
- High school diploma or GED equivalent required. A trade school certificate in Graphic Arts/Printing is preferred.
- 1-3 years of experience with platemaking equipment: CDI, exposure, washout, dryer, and post-exposure units.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Ability to read and understand measurements on a tape measure.
- Ability to understand and produce printing plates correctly and in accordance with customer needs and
- Ability to learn and use all platemaking equipment: CDI, exposure, washout, dryer, and post-exposure
- Strong mechanical
- Basic computer
- Full comprehension in reading work instructions and business
- Maintain exemplary attendance and punctuality.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to lead a team.
- Ability to follow direction and work individually or as part of a team.
- Self-driven and able to work with minimal oversight.
- Ability to conceptualize and problem solve.
- Ability to multitask.
- Attention to detail.
- Comply with all company standards, policies, procedures, and applicable regulations.
- Willing to take on additional responsibilities as needed.
Physical Requirements The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The following physical requirements are commonly performed in this job. There are times, on occasion, when the employee may be asked or expected to perform duties with physical requirements that are different from those listed here. It is the employee's duty to notify the management of any physical limitations or inability to perform a certain task.
- Vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.
- Use hands to reach, grasp, handle, and feel.
- Effectively communicate.
- Required to stand and walk for most of shift.
- Regularly required to lift and/or move up to 65 pounds.
NOTE: The information contained in this document describes the general nature, purpose, responsibilities, duties, skills, abilities, and workload of employees in the job described. However, it in no way constitutes a complete list of those that may be required. In addition, this does not constitute an employment contract and may be changed at any time. Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)