Saddle Stitch Operator
Apply Job ID 30125 Date posted Jan. 18, 2024 Location Lomira, Wisconsin
Quad is currently hiring Essential Workers who want to make a difference - Imagine more than you have today. Your career starts here. Be greater than you thought possible and reap the rewards of your success and growth. We are in the business of developing people. Promotions are based on your performance – You are in charge of your career!
At Quad, the wage range for a Saddle Stitch Operator is between $19.25 - $24.25 / hr. depending on experience. You have immediate opportunities to advance – driving you to be better than yesterday. As your career progresses, there are multiple upward paths available, as we are continuously looking for our next group of leaders to excel within the organization.
Quad is seeking Saddle Stitch Operators for the Lomira, WI plant. Experience with Muller Martini 12-40 pocket machines or Goss 855's with 40 pocket capabilities is highly desirable. Will consider candidates that have run other types of Saddle Stitch equipment as well.
Job Duties include but are not limited to:
- Operate machine effectively and safely according to standards to ensure a quality product.
- Perform and document preventative and routine maintenance as needed or assigned.
- Make ready the stacker, tiers, mail head, mail control.
- Make ready and run all aspects of the saddle stitcher (pockets, gatherer, stitcher heads, in feed, trimmer, mail table, and mail head, etc.…).
- Make-ready and run demographic and inkjet.
- Fill in for other master operators when needed.
- Assist other master operators with start-ups as possible when their line is down.
- Support material handlers during continuous and self-supported running (including mail-sacking, skid stacking, pocket filling, cover filling, etc.) and give work direction during downtime and clean-up.
- Read and understand binding instructions, mailing instructions, and support the BCS system.
- Ensure proper functioning of safety devices (i.e. guards, stop buttons)
- Maintain a safe and clean work environment.
- Perform additional tasks as needed or assigned.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated skill in mechanics/mechanical aptitude.
- Ability to read and interpret binding/mailing instructions and operating/maintenance manuals.
- Knowledge of department safety practices.
- Good understanding of all Bindery functions/procedures.
- Good understanding of the co-palletization process, demographics, and selective binding processes.
- Good understanding of primary causes and remedies for various quality problems.
- Ability to recognize, identify, analyze, and communicate problem situations and/or factors.
- Basic computer skills including a good understanding of the BCS System.
- Willingness to move to other machines.
- Willingness to work overtime on unscheduled days.
- Good organizational and time management skills.
- Strong communication skills; both oral and written.
- Ability to work easily and productively with others and with minimal supervision.
- You will work a compressed 3 and 4-day work week geared toward balancing work and family life (12-hour shift (either 7 a.m. - 7 p.m. or 7 p.m. - 7 a.m.) including weekends, and holidays).
- Essential functions of this job include the following: the ability to lift 10-15 pounds continuously, the ability to lift up to 70 pounds occasionally, stand for long hours, use hands and wrists continuously in controlled movement, receive and follow instructions and use vision to identify defects.
-
Categories at a glance
Explore available opportunities by job type, click each to learn more.
-
Sales
Develop sales strategies to help solve our clients’ challenges and grow their business.
-
Creative
Concept and design compelling campaigns and products for leading retailers, publishers and brand marketers.
-
Media
Develop plans to buy and schedule media to support clients' marketing objectives from print to digital media and broadcast.
-
Client Services
Manage client relationships and their projects from within a facility, creative studio or in the client’s on-site location.
-
Corporate
Make an impact in strategic administrative roles that include information technology (IT), accounting, legal and marketing.
-
Manufacturing
Make quality print products in a highly automated and technologically advanced environment.
-
Drivers & Logistics
Create customized distribution solutions to move freight on-time, every time, delivering on customers' needs.
-
Electrical & Mechanical
Be a problem solver and join a team that ensures our facilities, offices and equipment are running efficiently.
-
Campus
Gain real-work experience through internships and trainee programs with strategic entry-level opportunities.
Our Benefits
The importance of caring for one another, runs deep. It is at the heart of our healthcare and wellness programs, our retirement plans, all of our benefits. It's how we build rich, balanced lives for ourselves and our families, at work and at home.
Our Culture
From the very beginning, Quad has been defined by the people who work here. Our values, our skills, our creativity – it has all grown from those very first days in business, passed from worker to worker, built on the relationships – the trust – between us. All the presses, computers and technology; all the buildings; all the resources; none of it matters without the people who make Quad work.