Job Description
Job Purpose:
- Assemble, mail and dispatch newspapers. Tasks performed:
- Lift and stack bundles weighing up to 30 pounds
- Transports skids of newspapers and inserts using a forklift/electric jack/deepreach
- Handles/transfers newspapers by loading trucks with forklift or electric jack
- Manually place bundles of paper, weighing up to 30 pounds, on and take off of conveyor belt
- Operate conveyor belt controls
- Feed stacks of papers into inserting machine
- Run and repair collating and inserting machines
- Change spools of materials weighing up to 50 pounds with the use of lifting tools
- Wraps and bundles utilizing machine
- Mechanically operates various electro-mechanical machinery that bundles, wraps, straps, and palletizes bundles of paper
- Dispatch materials to various locations in the rack
- Enter, verify, and monitor a dispatch information utilizing computer
- Cut metal and plastic bands from around skids
- Prepares product by fanning or jogging to separate and feeds in to machine
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- Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage
- Company-paid pension and 401(k) match
- Three weeks of vacation and up to three weeks of paid sick leave
- Nine paid holidays and two personal days
- 20 weeks paid parental leave for any new parent
- Robust mental health resources
- Backup care and caregiver concierge services
- Gender affirming services
- Pet insurance
- Free Post digital subscription
- Leadership and career development programs
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