Assistant Press Operator
Core
Assist Press Operators with sheet-fed or web offset printing press make ready, operation, and maintenance.
Role type
Assistant Press Operator
Builds
Printed materials for clients
Domain
Printing and packaging
Deliverable
product features
Required skills
Installing plates and blankets on press cylinders, adjusting press machine parts (feeders, delivery mechanisms, grippers), removing and replacing worn rollers, cleaning ink and rollers, making color and register corrections, reading job specifications, using micrometers for plate alignment, performing routine operational maintenance and minor repairs
Preferred skills
Training and mentoring new and existing employees
Technologies
Sheet-fed or web offset printing presses, hand tools, power tools, ink solvents, micrometers
Responsibilities
Insert packing sheets and fasten reinforcing bars to offset blankets, adjust feeder and delivery mechanisms, assist in removing and replacing worn rollers, wash blankets and clean ink systems, make color or register corrections prior to production runs, mentor new employees
Seniority
Entry-level to Junior, hands-on IC