Job Details
Job Description
Tasks performed:
* Place wastepaper in trash cart
* Transport trash cart to compactor; dump trash cart in to compactor
* Operate compactor
* Some workers load skids of paper into trailers utilizing a forklift
* Sweep pressroom and reel room floors
* Sweep decks as needed
* Scrub and mop pressroom and reel room floors
* Dump and scrape 3.5 gallon buckets; place in bucket washer
* Wash presses and walls to height within reach on a daily basis
* Clean railings as needed
* Clean around quiet room as needed
* Pick up rags from rag cans and floors of the pressroom, reel room, quiet room, machine shop, locker room and decks. Place in drums and transport to loading dock, utilizing a hand truck. Task performed twice per day.
* Fill buckets with blanket wash and place on cart for each press (occasionally)
* With assistance of co-worker, place 55 gallon drum of cleaning solvent on dolly, as needed
* Use Putty knife to scrape the floor of the press unit arch; mop floor. Task performed once every two weeks
* Operate the automated guided vehicle (AGV) to supply newsprint to presses during production runs
* If press is not supplied with paper by the AGV, pushing to dollies weighing up to one ton (with assistance) is required
* Physically moving partial rolls of newsprint which are on the floor
* Removing cores (five to 25 pounds from press)
* Handling bundles of newsprint (50 to 90 pounds)
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