This is an in-person, onsite position located at: Mylar Specialty Films, 5401 Route 1, Richmond, VA
General Operators are required to work an 8-hour rotating shift schedule, which will include weekends, holidays, and overtime.
Overall Function
Individuals and teams are expected to operate, maintain, and improve their process, material flow, and equipment in performing their work. Operating the process to standard operating conditions, testing, light maintenance, administrative tasks, troubleshooting the process, and managing facilities improvements when needed are all essential parts of, but not limited to, managing their overall role and responsibility.
Primary Function
Slitting operators have overall responsibility for the output of the slitting machine and assistance to adjacent operators to maximize efficiency of the finishing area slitting line. This is accomplished by, operating by
SOC, (as available) produce quality products to customer specification per order, i.e.: Type, width, footage, hardness, etc. Produce a maximum of production with a minimum of rejects/waste and quality defects. Maintain accurate production and other administrative records, manage breaks, down time and inventory accuracy for interface system.
Working Conditions
- Temperature ranges from 60°F to 85°F and humidity from 50 to 70 %
- Stooping, bending, lifting, pushing, reaching is sometimes required.
- Noise levels at various points in the operation will require that ear protection be worn within prescribed areas. Eye protection is required in designated areas.
Required
- Must have a high school diploma or GED
- Must understand and follow all plant and area safety rules and procedures pertaining to the safe operation of the facility.
- Willing and able to work (a) a rotating shift schedule and (b) overtime.
Desired
- Experience operating a forklift or other similar types of equipment
- Experience using a plant maintenance software or ERP (resource planning) software, such as VisiTrak or Blaze.
Operating
Slitting Machines and associated equipment.
- Safety and Environmental
- Tag, lock, clear, and try procedure
- Finishing area master lockout list
- Unusual job procedure
- Mill Roll cores
- Lockout slitting machines and support equipment
- Safety How, plant general and finishing area specific.
- Incident investigation and communication
- How to cut film and remove it from core.
- Quality and Quality Systems
- Understand how to operate and access the LAN computer system
- Rejecting mill rolls then removing mill rolls from machine to towveyor.
- operation of the Schmidt hammer hardness detector
- Making a proper mend.
- Rejecting slit rolls.
- Rejecting Mill Rolls.
- Holding slit rolls for disposition.
- Calibrate tape measures
- Glossary of terms-slit roll formation defects.
- Finishing area inspection standards.
- Returned material / canceled order procedure.
- Generic slit roll specifications.
- Accessing operating procedures SP's, SOP's, and safety, health and environmental procedures.
- Standard operating conditions (SOC)
- Functional Skills
- Setting up slitting knives for respective chart.
- Setting up mandrels for respective chart.
- Charts and core label handling on slitting machine
- Removing setups and placing mandrels in slitting machine and removing slit rolls from mandrels & placing on conveyer.
- Slitting machine changes, replacing razor blades and resetting mandrel.
- Slitting machine backwind drum.
- Cutting film from slit rolls & removing frozen slit rolls from mandrels.
- Cleaning female knife bar on slitting machine.
- Changing razor blades on slitting machine.
- Threading up of slitting machine.
- Removing roll wraps from slitting machine.
- Core and scanner labeling for slitting area.
- Individual arm center surface slitter rewinder # 8, 9 (those specifically trained).
- Making a proper mend.
