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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