Title:  Baler

Position Title: Baler

Reports to: Cutting Department  

Location: Winston Salem, NC

At Graphic Packaging International (NYSE: GPK), we produce the box you may have poured your child’s cereal from this morning, the microwaveable tray that heated your lunch, the paper cup that held your coffee throughout the day, and the carrier of those bottles of craft beer you may enjoy tonight! We’re one of the largest manufacturers of paperboard and paper-based packaging for some of the world’s most recognized brands of food, beverage, foodservice, household, personal care, and pet care products. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we are a team of collaborative, innovative, passionate individuals who are committed to providing consumer packaging that makes a world of difference.

With almost 18,000 employees working in more than 70 locations in North and South America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim, we strive to be an environmentally responsible leader in our industry and in the communities where we operate.  We are committed to workplace diversity and offer compensation and benefits programs that are among the industry’s best to reward the talented people who make our company successful.

If this sounds like something you would like to be a part of, we’d love to hear from you. Learn more about us at www.graphicpkg.com.

Inspired Packaging.  A World of Difference.

We are seeking a candidate to join our Cutting Department as a Baler. We offer outstanding opportunities for our employees to advance their careers through on the job training and job progression.  These are skilled trade positions where our employees build successful careers in the Printing & Packaging industry. 

We offer a wide array of benefits including, but not limited to, Paid Vacation, Sick & Holidays, optional Health, Dental, and Life Insurance, health spending accounts as well as 401(k) with matching funds. Employees may voluntarily elect Pet Insurance, Home & Auto Insurance Programs, Purchasing Power, Tuition Reimbursement, Aflac, LifeLock, Identity Protection, and Hyatt Legal Services. Tobacco Cessation and Employee Assistance/Referral Program, Uniform Service, Safety Shoe, and Safety Prescription-Eyewear benefits are also available.

Job Summary: The person who occupies this position is responsible for unloading the baling machine, banding waste loads and offloading sheeted loads into press WIP (Work in Progress) production area.

Job Functions: The following is a list of specific duties which are considered the essential manufacturing functions of this job. The list is not exhaustive, as all positions at the company are dynamic. The employee who occupies this position is expected to assume any/all duties assigned by production management irrespective of whether such duties are specifically included in this list.

• Responsible for banding scrap loads with metal strapping. Metal strapping is fastened together and tightened by use of banding tool.
• Weighing bales of scrap and filling out inventory tag that is to be attached to bale. Information on tag includes grade, weight of bale. (Material Handler weighs bales by use of forklift)
• Material Handler is to stack all production bales according to grade. Material Handler does this by use of forklift.
• When waste semi-trucks arrive, Material handler is to load production bales and scrap pallets into semi-truck.
• Material Handler is responsible for required manufacturing safety checks of forklift.
• Unloading sheeted loads from sheeters to printed WIP areas.
• Responsible for removing and strapping waste loads from delivery end of printing presses.
• Responsible for exchange of coating totes.
• Responsible for banding metal printing plates and placing them in proper storage locations.

Job Specifications:

• Physical and visual activities that are commonly associated* with the performance of the functions of this job:
• Standing, walking, lifting (up to 50-60 lbs.), carrying (up to 50-60 lbs.), pushing and pulling (the dumpsters of paper scrap), bending, reaching, handling (paper scrap), visual acuity (far).
• Physical demands commonly associated* with the performance of the functions of this job:
• Person must have physical coordination to operate forklift. Person is operating forklift approximately 95% of working shift.
• Material Handler is continually getting on and off forklift (getting off lift to start wrapping machine; getting on lift to move materials, etc...) throughout working shift.
• Use of manufacturing Machines, Tools, Equipment, Software:
• Forklift, Bailing Machine, Hand truck
• Experience operating a forklift preferred, but not required.
• Must be flexible: Able to work other shifts, overtime and weekends when needed.

GRAPHIC PACKAGING is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All candidates will be evaluated on the basis of their qualifications for the job in question. We do not base our employment decision on an employee's or applicant's race, color, religion, age, gender or sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic identity, genetic information, disability, veteran/military status or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law. Click here to view the EEO is the Law Poster.  Please apply at www.graphicpkg.com