Collator operator job description
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Example collator operator requirements on a job description
Collator operator requirements can be divided into technical requirements and required soft skills. The lists below show the most common requirements included in collator operator job postings.
Sample collator operator requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Prior experience in a similar role.
- Proficiency in data entry.
- Excellent accuracy and attention to detail.
- Knowledge of office equipment.
Sample required collator operator soft skills
- Strong organizational skills.
- Ability to multi-task.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Keen problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
Collator operator job description example 1
Sheridan collator operator job description
Collator Operator, 3rd Shift Sheridan. Be part of something greater. Your career awaits join us!
LOCATION: Chelsea, MI
Sheridan MI has operated in Chelsea, Michigan, for more than 70 years of service to the book publishing industry. Our customers depend on us to covert their ideas into one of the most important inventions man ever made, a book of printed words.
Job Summary:- Read job ticket and follow instructions
- Set up and change over machines
- Coordinate and monitor the crews responsibilities
- Check each job for accuracy of specifications and verify the quality meets our expectation
- A minimum of a high school diploma or GED required.
- Ability to keep up with a high-speed delivery output in a standing position for a full shift.
- Requires regularly standing, walking, carrying, climbing, and reaching.
- Ability to lift cartons up to a maximum of 50 lbs.
- Overtime pays time and a half after 40 hours per week
- Night shift pays an extra 8% on hours worked
- Job training
- Career advancement
- College tuition up to $5,250 per year
- Paid vacation & holidays
- Competitive compensation
- Medical (PPO and HSA Plans), Dental, Vision
- Teledoc - convenient and no cost
- Company paid basic life and AD&D insurance
- Voluntary life
- 401(k) with company match
- Company paid short term disability
- FSA Health and Dependent Care savings accounts
- HSA Health saving account
- EAP program
CJK Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Collator operator job description example 2
RRD collator operator job description
This Position Offers a $2,000 Sign-on Bonus
St Charles, IL - RRD Retail
Your Next Job Awaits You at RRD St Charles, IL!
Immediate openings for 2nd shift.
Join a Growing Team!
RRD Marketing Solutions is a full-service sheet-fed commercial printer specializing in the print, fulfillment and distribution of In-Store Marketing solutions. Our RRD Marketing Solutions plant offers a full range of digital print-on-demand (wide- and grand-format and color and black & white with variable data capabilities), just-in-time offset print, pre-produced inventory management, warehousing and distribution services. We are strategically located in St. Charles with the capability of servicing any customer nationwide. Customers can access a network of strategically located RR Donnelley facilities throughout North America to optimize production and fulfillment for longer-run stored inventory and short-run on-demand materials. Our Print Fulfillment & Distribution Services are part of our complete and fully integrated total print management program and supply chain solution.
RRD is an EEO/AA including Vets and Disabled Employer.
Perks for joining the RRD team!!
We have a comprehensive, full-time benefits package that includes: medical/dental/vision and life insurance, short/long-term disability,401(k), health savings and flexible spending accounts, and more. We believe in promoting from within, so there is definitely opportunity for growth at RRD. Grow to where you want to be.
Job Function:
+ Sets up and operates collating and/or labeling/patching machines to produce value added enhancements to in-process work.
+ Review specifications and set up equipment that perform forms collating from web rolls, label affixing, or window patching to printed or inprocess materials specific to the customer's requirements.
+ Equipment operated may perform functions related to assembling and perforating signatures, stapling, gluing, folding, or cutting sheets of paper, forms, or signatures in specified sequence to form completed sets or die cut and apply labels or films to paper substrates.
+ Make needed adjustments to coordinate the multiple work stations throughout the collating line.
+ Direct the crew through all aspects of production.
+ Monitor quality, output and productivity.
+ Inspect equipment for safety issues.
Required Skills
Required Skills:
+ Experience with any automatic bindery machines containing multiple functions and station capabilities (mechanical collators and gatherers, labeler, poly wrapper) which can be electromechanically combined with other equipment and devices to produce a complete bindery and finishing unit that processes printed sheets into final set or packages of completed products
+ Thorough knowledge of the set up, adjustment, procedures, capabilities and limitations of equipment to perform the full range of standard and specialized collating and polywrapping of printed materials to complete a finished product.
+ Comprehensive knowledge of machinability of different paper weights, sizes, kinds and colors so as to be able to identify paper conditions (i.e. excessive paper curl that requires additional machine adjustment).
+ Thorough knowledge of limitations and capabilities of all machines used to accomplish unusual set ups or machine combinations to produce unique or one of a kind printed materials.
+ Familiarity with basic mathematics (i.e. decimals, metric units) to understand dimensional requirements contained in job orders and to make more complicated adjustments.
+ Ability to use the full range of standard and specialized tools and devices to adjust and maintain the functional accuracy and operating conditions of the bindery machines.
+ Skill in making difficult adjustments to powered machines using hand tools (i.e. wrenches, screwdrivers, punches, knives) as well as more specialized hand tools, usually furnished by the machine manufacturer.
+ Skill in operating complicated bindery equipment such as collators, labelers, wrappers. Also helpful (but not required) to be familiar with folders, cutters, collators, stitchers, drills, binding/gluing machines.
+ Ability to read and interpret written work which indicates the number and sequence of machine operations required to complete the work and maintain dimensional accuracy in accordance with instructions provided.
+ Basic computer skills.
Required Experience
Required Experience:
+ Previous experience in an manufacturing or printing environment preferred Reasoning.
+ Apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
+ Deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in or from standardized situations. Mathematics. Ability to read, copy and record figures.
+ May involve simple addition and subtraction.
+ Ability to compare similarities and differences between words, codes, and series of numbers.
+ Ability to operate a computer at a basic to intermediate level. Ability to work independently and/or as part of a team.
+ Physical Demands: Job requires ability to exert 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Hearing protection and safety toed shoes required constantly.
St Charles, IL - RRD Retail
Your Next Job Awaits You at RRD St Charles, IL!
Immediate openings for 2nd shift.
Join a Growing Team!
RRD Marketing Solutions is a full-service sheet-fed commercial printer specializing in the print, fulfillment and distribution of In-Store Marketing solutions. Our RRD Marketing Solutions plant offers a full range of digital print-on-demand (wide- and grand-format and color and black & white with variable data capabilities), just-in-time offset print, pre-produced inventory management, warehousing and distribution services. We are strategically located in St. Charles with the capability of servicing any customer nationwide. Customers can access a network of strategically located RR Donnelley facilities throughout North America to optimize production and fulfillment for longer-run stored inventory and short-run on-demand materials. Our Print Fulfillment & Distribution Services are part of our complete and fully integrated total print management program and supply chain solution.
RRD is an EEO/AA including Vets and Disabled Employer.
Perks for joining the RRD team!!
We have a comprehensive, full-time benefits package that includes: medical/dental/vision and life insurance, short/long-term disability,401(k), health savings and flexible spending accounts, and more. We believe in promoting from within, so there is definitely opportunity for growth at RRD. Grow to where you want to be.
Job Function:
+ Sets up and operates collating and/or labeling/patching machines to produce value added enhancements to in-process work.
+ Review specifications and set up equipment that perform forms collating from web rolls, label affixing, or window patching to printed or inprocess materials specific to the customer's requirements.
+ Equipment operated may perform functions related to assembling and perforating signatures, stapling, gluing, folding, or cutting sheets of paper, forms, or signatures in specified sequence to form completed sets or die cut and apply labels or films to paper substrates.
+ Make needed adjustments to coordinate the multiple work stations throughout the collating line.
+ Direct the crew through all aspects of production.
+ Monitor quality, output and productivity.
+ Inspect equipment for safety issues.
Required Skills
Required Skills:
+ Experience with any automatic bindery machines containing multiple functions and station capabilities (mechanical collators and gatherers, labeler, poly wrapper) which can be electromechanically combined with other equipment and devices to produce a complete bindery and finishing unit that processes printed sheets into final set or packages of completed products
+ Thorough knowledge of the set up, adjustment, procedures, capabilities and limitations of equipment to perform the full range of standard and specialized collating and polywrapping of printed materials to complete a finished product.
+ Comprehensive knowledge of machinability of different paper weights, sizes, kinds and colors so as to be able to identify paper conditions (i.e. excessive paper curl that requires additional machine adjustment).
+ Thorough knowledge of limitations and capabilities of all machines used to accomplish unusual set ups or machine combinations to produce unique or one of a kind printed materials.
+ Familiarity with basic mathematics (i.e. decimals, metric units) to understand dimensional requirements contained in job orders and to make more complicated adjustments.
+ Ability to use the full range of standard and specialized tools and devices to adjust and maintain the functional accuracy and operating conditions of the bindery machines.
+ Skill in making difficult adjustments to powered machines using hand tools (i.e. wrenches, screwdrivers, punches, knives) as well as more specialized hand tools, usually furnished by the machine manufacturer.
+ Skill in operating complicated bindery equipment such as collators, labelers, wrappers. Also helpful (but not required) to be familiar with folders, cutters, collators, stitchers, drills, binding/gluing machines.
+ Ability to read and interpret written work which indicates the number and sequence of machine operations required to complete the work and maintain dimensional accuracy in accordance with instructions provided.
+ Basic computer skills.
Required Experience
Required Experience:
+ Previous experience in an manufacturing or printing environment preferred Reasoning.
+ Apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
+ Deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in or from standardized situations. Mathematics. Ability to read, copy and record figures.
+ May involve simple addition and subtraction.
+ Ability to compare similarities and differences between words, codes, and series of numbers.
+ Ability to operate a computer at a basic to intermediate level. Ability to work independently and/or as part of a team.
+ Physical Demands: Job requires ability to exert 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Hearing protection and safety toed shoes required constantly.
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Updated March 14, 2024
Updated March 14, 2024