Tooling Coordinator
Monday to Friday: 7a-330p
Why You’ll Love Working at Hood Container
- Competitive Pay & Benefits: Competitive Starting pay, quarterly bonus, & full benefits: www.hoodcontainer.com/benefits
- Career Growth: Ongoing training and advancement opportunities.
- Team-Oriented Culture: Your expertise is respected and valued.
- Stable, Growing Industry: Nationwide leader in corrugated packaging.
Position Overview: Responsible for leading die team including setup, cleanup, and continuous improvement maintenance and storage.
Position Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain ink inventory, order draw downs, get approvals, order, and coordinate arrival of ink for new items.
- Approve and catalog all new tooling and coordinate said process with production schedule and release new tooling items to production.
- Work closely with scheduler and other team members to ensure materials arrive on production floor as needed for manufacturing and on time delivery.
- Catalog and maintain Mylar inventory.
- Mount print plates as needed for production.
- Check factory orders for accuracy.
- Maintain die storage.
- Maintain adhesive inventory and other plant supplies.
- Periodic die purge.
- Assist with first run integrity as needed.
- Assist Prepress as needed.
- Repair Tooling
- Responsible for library of printed items:
- Making Library Cards.
- Verifying Bar Codes.
- Obtaining customer approval.
- Ordering print plates.
What it takes:
- High School Diploma or Equivalent
- Attention to detail and ability to recognize minor discrepancies or deviation
- Effective communication skills (oral & written)
- Basic Mechanical skills to make repairs using hand tools
- Experience working in a manufacturing environment preferred
- Ability to use and read a ruler/tape-measure
- Ability to operate mobile equipment, experience operating a forklift preferred
- Willing & able to lift and/or push up to 50 lbs
- Willing & able to work overtime and weekends as needed
Our goal is to have a diverse and representative workforce, at all job levels, of the citizens and customers we serve. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.
Hood Container Corporation is a family-owned, Mill to Market company, specializing in containerboard and kraft paper, corrugated boxes, high graphic displays, and contract packaging. Our commitment to customer happiness, employee well-being, environmental stewardship, and operational excellence drives our business. Over the last decade, Hood Container Corporation has grown to become one of the top ten Paper and Packaging Companies in the United States.
To learn more about Hood Container Corporation, visit www.hoodcontainer.com or check us out on social media!