Job Details
** Full Time General Laborer**
**Job ID** 21671 **Date posted** Feb. 12, 2022 **Location** Effingham, Illinois **Full Time / Part Time** Full time (FT) Quad/Graphics
Production opportunities at Quad instill a sense of empowerment and possibility distinct from those at other employers. Quads state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities include world-class automation and printing technology. This includes guided vehicles (driverless fork trucks) and world-class digital presses that give our clients a full range of options to produce personalized marketing products. Fueled by innovative, interesting days, youll find hard work is good work, and feel a deep sense of pride in a job well done something shared by everyone in the community we call Quad.
**Walk In Any Wednesday from 1pm-4pm for a plant tour and immediate interview. Find a career. Not a job. Questions, call Kerry @ 414.###.####.**
**$2000 New Hire Bonus Offered for FT Manufacturing Role**
*Quad is currently hiring General Laborers as **Essential Workers** who want to make a difference - Imagine more than you have today. **Your career starts here.** Be greater than you thought possible and reap the rewards of your success and growth. We are in the business of developing people. **Promotions are based on your performance ** You are in charge of your career!*
***Our compressed work schedule is geared toward balancing work and family life. You will work 3 to 4, 12 hour days a week with opportunities for overtime (OT paid after 40 hours per week). These shifts rotate throughout the year (either 7 a.m. - 7 p.m. or 7 p.m. - 7 a.m.) including days, nights, weekends, and holidays.***
**At Quad, the General Laborer entry-level wages for full-time start between $16 - $18 / hour.** You have immediate opportunities to advance driving you to be better than yesterday. In addition, we value and reward manufacturing experience by providing a competitive wage. **Individuals with print experience can have a starting wage up to $27 / hour.** As your career progresses, there are multiple upward paths available, as we are continuously looking for our next group of leaders to excel within the organization.
**Effingham** is a one-stop, full-service specialty operation capable of printing commercial and direct mail products with full personalization capabilities and in-house mail services. In addition, Effingham has total scheduling flexibility due to its large capacity, interchangeable presses. Our employees and their families have access to an onsite medical clinic,. We offer competitive pay, health, dental, pharmacy and life insurance, 401k, vacation, and other great benefits, **including a compressed work schedule where you work half of the year!**
Quad is a Wisconsin-based company, which is among the largest magazine and direct-mail printers in the U.S. Our company leverages its strong print foundation as part of a much larger, robust integrated marketing services platform that helps marketers and content creators improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their marketing spend across offline and online media channels.
Quad is closely following the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), and implementing processes that promote the safety of our employees, candidates, customers and communities. We follow CDC and local health authorities, federal and state governments along with best practices and recommendations from our healthcare subsidiary, QuadMed.
**BE YOUR OWN SUCCESS STORY. BE SOMETHING GREATER. BE QUAD.**
**Essential Duties & Responsibilities**:
* Remove product from the end of the printing press or finishing machine.
* Work with loose and/or completed product by stacking onto pallets, transferring to tables & placing into a collator hopper or into mail bags.
* Move product/skids with a hand jack, motorized Raymond (Big Joe) lift or Forklift (training provided).
* Comply with all quality, safety and work rules and regulations.
* Effectively communicate with team members.
* Assist other crew members with various duties including webbing up of the press and/or special handwork in order to meet customer requests.
* Follow all clean-up and housekeeping procedures
**Qualifications**:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
* Must be at least 18-years of age or older
* Printing, factory, or other mechanical work experience a plus
* Strong mechanical aptitude.
* Ability to write and read measurements.
* Ability to read, understand and follow both written and verbal instructions.
* The ability to use a computer/manipulate touch screens
* The ability to use repetitive hand/wrist movement
* Ability to lift stacks of end boards or banding strap rolls (~30 -60lbs) as needed
* The ability to take stacks of loose signatures or bundles ranging (5-30 lbs.) off a pallet or conveyor up to 48 in height and transfer to table top work surface 42, and then place into a collator hopper or mail bags that potentially weigh from 5-75 lbs.
* Ability to multi-task and prioritize job need.
* Ability to be a team player in a fast paced, detail orientated production environment.
* Ability to follow instructions and work independently
* 12 hour rotating shifts (either 7 a.m. - 7 p.m. or 7 p.m. - 7 a.m.) including days, nights, weekends, and holidays. working 3 - 4 days a week
**Additional Company Information**
We offer excellent benefits to eligible employees, including 401(k), holidays, vacations and more.
Quad is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We are committed to creating a place of belonging a space where employees do not need to sacrifice who they are to exist and grow in our workplace. Quad does not discriminate on any unlawful basis including race, religion, color, national origin, disability, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Quad also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any of these protected categories.
Drug Free Workplace
We strive to take care of employees and recognize their hard work by offering benefits that provide for employees' needs both current and yet-to-come.
**Our Benefits**
The importance of caring for one another, runs deep. It is at the heart of our healthcare and wellness programs, our retirement plans, all of our benefits. It's how we build rich, balanced lives for ourselves and our families, at work and at home.
**Our Culture**
From the very beginning, Quad has been defined by the people who work here. Our values, our skills, our creativity it has all grown from those very first days in business, passed from worker to worker, built on the relationships the trust between us. All the presses, computers and technology; all the buildings; all the resources; none of it matters without the people who make Quad work.