Applied Laminates Operator Lead

The Griff Network, with over forty years of experience, provides innovative material solutions to a wide range of industries including Food, Medical, Automotive, Solar, Credit Card, Graphic and POP, Building and Construction, Tape and Label, among others. The company operates five material facilities globally, offering extensive capabilities such as extrusion, lamination, metallization, coating, packaging, and converting. The Griff Network is dedicated to customer satisfaction through quality products and expert services, continually developing new patented products to meet evolving needs.

We are seeking a motivated, reliable, and hands‑on GAL Operator Lead to join our GAL Applied Laminates team in our 101 building. This role is responsible for helping drive hourly performance across production equipment, supporting operators and helpers, maintaining safe and efficient workflow, and covering floor needs when the GAL Production Manager requires support.

The GAL Operator Lead will help set up, operate, monitor, change over, and support production equipment within the department, including UV coater, slitting, spooler, laminator, and printing equipment. This position will help ensure production schedules, quality standards, customer specifications, packaging requirements, roll requirements, coating requirements, print expectations, output expectations, and documented standard operating procedures are followed.

This position will also train team members, answer questions, support troubleshooting, complete production documentation, and ensure materials, cores, packaging, labels, pallets, and finished goods are handled accurately. The GAL Operator Lead will also help develop, maintain, and improve standard operating procedures to support consistent training, safe work practices, quality performance, accurate documentation, and repeatable production processes across GAL operations.

This is a working lead position, not a management role. The ideal candidate will have strong machine operation experience, material handling ability, mechanical aptitude, attention to detail, and the ability to lead by example in a fast‑paced production, converting, coating, laminating, and printing environment.

• Set up, operate, monitor, change over, and support production equipment within the GAL department, including UV coater, slitting, spooler, laminator, and printing equipment.
• Drive hourly performance by helping keep production moving safely, efficiently, and in line with quality, schedule, speed, output expectations, and documented standard operating procedures.
• Lead by example by modeling strong attendance, safety, quality, work ethic, accountability, and a hands‑on approach throughout the shift.
• Support operators and helpers with daily assignments, breaks, training, questions, setup, changeovers, breakdowns, material handling, packaging, and production issues.
• Develop, maintain, and reinforce standard operating procedures for GAL operations, including machine setup, changeovers, quality checks, safety practices, packaging requirements, documentation, and shift expectations.
• Train and coach operators and helpers on approved SOPs to ensure consistent, safe, and repeatable production practices across UV coating, slitting, spooling, laminating, and printing operations.
• Fill in on production lines or in other production support areas as needed to maintain workflow and reduce downtime.
• Read and follow work orders, job specifications, labels, customer requirements, material requirements, roll requirements, coating requirements, print expectations, packaging instructions, finished goods specifications, and SOPs.
• Assist with machine setup, core placement, material loading, material movement, web alignment, tension adjustments, finished goods handling, wrapping, packaging, labeling, and movement of finished material.
• Perform and document in‑process quality checks to verify material condition, measurements, appearance, coating quality, print quality, winding quality, packaging, labels, finished goods requirements, and customer specifications.
• Troubleshoot minor production issues, including setup…