Decorative Film 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 Decorative Film Operator Lead in our 275‑building facility to support our decorative film department. This role is responsible for helping drive hourly performance, safe workflow, quality output, SOP compliance, and production support across slitting, extrusion, coating, and packing operations.

The Decorative Film Operator Lead will support machine setup, operation, monitoring, changeovers, material staging, quality checks, documentation, SOP adherence, and line support based on daily production needs. This position will assist operators and helpers, answer questions, support troubleshooting, train team members, and help ensure materials, rolls, cores, packaging, labels, and pallets are ready to keep production moving.

This role will also support the development, maintenance, and improvement of standard operating procedures to promote consistent training, safe work practices, quality performance, accurate documentation, and repeatable production processes across decorative film operations.

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

• Set up, operate, monitor, and support production equipment across decorative film operations, including slitting, extrusion, coating, and packing.
• Drive hourly performance by helping keep production moving safely, efficiently, and in line with quality, schedule, 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, material handling, packing needs, and production issues.
• Develop, maintain, and reinforce standard operating procedures for decorative film operations, including machine setup, changeovers, quality checks, safety practices, packing requirements, documentation, and shift expectations.
• Train and coach operators and helpers on approved SOPs to ensure consistent, safe, and repeatable production practices across slitting, extrusion, coating, and packing areas.
• Fill in on slitting, extrusion, coating, packing, or other production support areas as needed to maintain workflow and reduce downtime.
• Read and follow work orders, job specifications, labels, customer requirements, roll sizes, slit widths, footage requirements, coating requirements, packaging instructions, production schedules, and SOPs.
• Assist with machine setup, roll loading and unloading, core placement, web alignment, tension adjustments, material handling, packing setup, and other production setup needs.
• Perform and document in‑process quality checks to verify material appearance, slit width, roll condition, coating consistency, winding quality, labels, footage, packaging, specifications, and customer requirements.
• Troubleshoot minor production issues, including web breaks, wrinkles, telescoping, winding issues, material defects, alignment issues, jams, coating concerns, packing issues, and equipment concerns.
• Complete hourly counts, scrap tickets, downtime logs, quality documentation, material usage records, packing records, Epicor or system entries, shift passdowns, 5S expectations, SOP records, and other required production documentation accurately and on…