Screen Technician (REQ542)

Screen Technician - Starting Wages are $19 per hour!!

Crawfordsville, IN

How can you make a difference at your job and can have the opportunity to grow?

Join the Crawfordsville – Spartech Team!

Crawford Industries, now a part of Spartech, LLC has an opening for Screen Tech on our team in Crawfordsville, IN. This position is a DAY SHIFT position. The Crawfordsville operation of the organization specializes in extruding and converting flat plastic sheet. Plastic sheet may have graphics added and then die cut into license plates, the “lamp shade” used in veterinary clinics, signage, file folders, 3-ring binders, covers for school date books, for example. We reuse our scrap plastic whenever possible to create our environmentally friendly products. We offer medical, dental, vision, life insurance, dependent life insurance, short-term and long-term disability all available the 1st of the month following 30 days of full-time employment. Vacation is available after 6 months and there is immediate eligibility for holiday pay. Come join our Screen team!

General Summary and Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Sets up screens for the screen presses.

Key Responsibilities to include:

• Check job traveler for each job as assigned to confirm set-up and materials furnished will yield product required.
• Washes used screens using emulsion removers.
• Coating cleaned screens for new art.
• After inspecting art, must determine proper mesh and emulsion to produce the best quality product.
• Stretches and tension screens.
• Determine correct exposure time and shoot screen.
• Dress screens with tape and block out for appropriate screen image
• Closely check finished screens against film positives.
• Repair and maintain screen frames for reuse, clean frames, and replace clips as needed.
• Assist Press Operators with screen repairs.
• Train and direct activities of those who are temporarily assigned to assist screen making.
• Update work center checking on late materials, log in art, ink and sheet and properly file each.
• Accurately report all direct and indirect labor activities.

Requirements

Required Skills/Experience:

• Screen printing experience preferred but not required
• Basic math skills
• Able to read and use a tape measure and micrometer
• Frequently lift up to 30 pounds
• Able to use a hand truck to move materials
• Able to stand for extended periods of time
• Able to work around inks and cleaning chemicals
• Able to wear appropriate PPE – googles, gloves, safety glasses, bump cap, hearing protection, and safety toed shoes.

This position reports to the Converting Supervisor.

Benefits

We offer competitive salary, incentives, and benefit programs.

• Medical, Dental, & Vision
• Life & Short/Long-term Disability
• Dependent and Supplemental Life Insurance
• Holiday Pay
• 401k with Company Match.
• Eligible for vacation after 6 months.

Spartech LLC, headquartered in Maryland Heights, Missouri is a leading manufacturing organization in the Custom Sheet & Roll Stock and Packaging industries with numerous locations throughout the United States. We have a broad customer base with extensive product offerings. Many of our materials are used in products you might see every day— for example if you start your morning with a yogurt or your child eats a single serving peanut butter—you may have already seen some of our materials. More unique uses of our materials can be seen in Military or security applications, for example, with bullet proof materials. From routine daily-life to life-saving applications—we make a difference. Our broad scope of products and services keep our environment interesting and challenging with a culture focused on success.

Spartech, LLC provides equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, or veteran status, or other legally protected classification in the state in which a person is seeking employment. Spartech will use E-Verify to ensure employment eligibility of newly hired employees where required.