1st Shift Paper Stacker​/Saw Operator

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Western Container Corporation 1st Shift Paper Stacker/ Saw Operator

Job Title: 1st Shift Paper Stacker/ Saw Operator
Department: Production
Reports To: Winder Operator
Approval Date: 2025

The Paper Stacker/ Saw Operator is responsible for creating a safe work environment and operating assigned machinery including saws. This position safely sets up, operates, and maintains the saw and work area to meet both internal and external customer needs. The Individual is detail‑oriented to ensure work product meets client specifications and is part of a team environment focused on efficiently creating products and services that exceed customer expectations.

The role collaborates with management and manufacturing personnel to ensure an excellent product to the customer.

• Setup appropriate machinery per job specifications ensuring safety, quality and appropriately applying lean strategies.
• Required to log into jobs and record production data, including closing open work orders and whipping orders to finished goods for shipping.
• Read work orders or production schedules to determine specifications such as materials, cutting lines, or dimensions and tolerances.
• Position guides, stops, holding blocks, or other fixtures to secure and direct work pieces using hand tools and measuring devices.
• Set stops on machine beds, change dies, and adjust components such as rams or power presses when making multiple or successive passes.
• Start machines, monitor their operations, and record operational data.
• Set up, operate, or tend machines to saw, cut, shear, slit, punch, crimp, notch, bend, or straighten metal or plastic material.
• Responsible for machine change‑over and appropriate material setup.
• Examine work area at the beginning and ending of each shift and during any machine changeover for safety and proper operations.
• Examine completed work pieces for defects such as chipped edges or marred surfaces and sort defective pieces according to types of flaws.
• Measure completed work pieces to verify conformance to specifications using micrometers, gauges, calipers, templates, or rulers.
• Safely and efficiently prepare material for shipping, including proper identification, tagging, and wrapping.
• Required to be a team player and collaborate with various departments to meet customer satisfaction.

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) required.
• One‑year related experience and/or training or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Knowledge of Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) software, preferred.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, and Excel), preferred.

• Drivers License, preferred.

• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information in one‑on‑one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees.

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

• Ability to stand greater than 2/3 of the time.
• Ability to walk greater than 2/3 of the time.
• Ability to sit less than 1/3 of the time.
• Ability to use hands greater than 2/3 of the time.
• Ability to reach with hands and arms 1/3 – 2/3 of the time.
• Ability to climb or balance 1/3 – 2/3 of the time.
• Ability to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl 1/3 – 2/3 of the time.
• Ability to talk and hear greater than 2/3 of the time.
• Ability to push or pull up to 50 pounds 1/3 – 2/3 of the time.
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds 1/3 – 2/3 of the time.

• The normal work environment is a manufacturing facility.
• Noise in the manufacturing environment is moderately loud with machinery and forklift traffic.
• Employees are exposed to warm and cool temperatures based on weather conditions.

Entry level

Full‑time

Management and Manufacturing

Packaging & Containers