Cenveo is a leading North American manufacturer of envelopes with over 100 years of experience and approximately 30 billion envelopes manufactured annually. We are seeking a Tooling Coordinator with the ability to work on 2nd shift for our envelope manufacturing facility in Chicago, IL.
The schedule is Monday- Friday with occasional overtime / based on business needs with approval.
The ideal candidate will have 3-5 years of relevant work experience in tool inspection, make-ready, purchasing, customer service, and inventory in a print/production environment. The incumbent will have solid attention to detail and interpersonal communication skills, and the ability to perform in a high volume work environment with speed and accuracy.
Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, Cenveo provides competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package.
Job Summary
Prepare, inspect, organize, and stage the necessary change parts and materials for all the changeovers in the plant, before the machines are shutdown to perform a changeover. Maintains accurate inventory of parts and supplies ensuring that parts are readily available to be shipped to facilities as requested. May assist in leading production employees to ensure a constant flow of production.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities (*Essential Functions)
These are functions a qualified incumbent or applicant must be able to perform with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Coordinate the staging of job jacket, raw materials, and print plates.
- Accurate change time tracking and documentation
- Making Gummers; Mixing Inks
- Maintain inventory and order change parts; Return of Used Parts & Material
- Development/ Utilization of Make Ready SOP's
- Maintain Tooling Condition (Sharp, Usable); Coordinate the reconditioning of Tooling
- Read and understand written and verbal instructions, specifications and information
- Problem-solving and decision making; consistent communication with manager/teams
- Collaborate with pertinent contacts / departments to achieve goals
- Inspect and monitor quality of products received from other departments or moving to another department, including packaging of materials for shipment to ensure quality standards are met
- Actively support continuous improvement in processes and procedures
- Promote and maintain a clean, safe and organized work area by adhering to Safety Policies
- Responsible for collecting and accurately reporting necessary data
- Performs physical inventories on a regular basis, to verify inventory records and correct discrepancies
- Maintains hazardous chemical documentation and facilitates disposal of hazardous material
- Provide coverage for other positions as needed.
Preferred Qualifications
Job Requirements
- Minimum related experience required for this position is 3-5 years.
- Practical knowledge and experience of Offset/Flexo equipment/similar parts, inks, and solvents.
- Knowledge of envelope sizes and paper weights and types preferred.
- Minimum education required is a High School Diploma or equivalent.
- Solid math, measuring, and computer skills are required
- Requires excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Industry related experience and mechanical knowledge required.
- Requires ongoing coordination, communication and/or team problem solving between departments or functional areas for work production or service quality.
- Willingness to work overtimes/ other shifts if needed.
- Ability to be innovative and problem solve is required
- Requires contact with other all Functional Areas and outside vendors.
Physical Requirements & Environmental Conditions
- Ability to keep up with a high-speed delivery output in a standing position for a full shift.
- Mental alertness to stop equipment when jam occurs.
- Ability to step up, reach overhead, and manually feed blanks into machine.
- Requires regularly standing, walking, carrying, climbing, and reaching.
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
- Manual dexterity required to grasp objects; exposure to arm and wrist fatigue.
- Exposure to noise; must wear hearing protection and safety shoes.
- Environment is a printing and manufacturing environment.
- Exposure to dust, ink, solvents, vapors and loud noise.
- Requires frequent bending, standing and walking throughout shift.
- Requires manual dexterity and hand -- eye coordination.
- Must have good color perception. Must be able to view all colors.
Cenveo is an EEO Employer
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