Tooling Coordinator

Kirksville Regional Economic Development Inc.

Chicago, Northern (IL, KY)

Hybrid

USD 55,000 - 75,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Job summary

Cenveo is seeking a Tooling Coordinator for our Chicago, IL facility on the 2nd shift. The role focuses on organizing parts for changeovers, maintaining accurate tooling inventory, and coordinating with multiple departments to ensure smooth production transitions.

The candidate should have 3-5 years in tooling, packaging, or printing environments, with strong math, communication, and problem-solving skills. Overtime may be required based on business needs.

Qualifications

  • 3-5 years of relevant work experience in tool inspection, make-ready, purchasing, customer service, and inventory in a print/production environment.
  • Solid attention to detail and interpersonal communication skills.
  • Ability to perform in a high-volume work environment with speed and accuracy.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate the staging of job jackets, raw materials, and print plates.
  • Maintain inventory and order change parts; ensure parts are readily available for changeovers.
  • Develop/Utilize Make Ready SOPs; maintain tooling condition and coordinate reconditioning.

Skills

Tool inspection
Make-ready
Purchasing
Customer service
Inventory management

Education

High School Diploma

Tools

Offset/Flexo equipment
ERP/SAP

Job description

Cenveo is a leading North American manufacturer of envelopes with over 100 years of experience and approximately 30 billion envelopes manufactured annually. W e are seeking a Tooling Coordinator with the ability to work on 2 nd shift for our envelope manufacturing facility in Chicago, IL.

The schedule is Monday- Friday with occasional overtime / based on business needs with approval.

The ideal candidate will have 3-5 years of relevant work experience in tool inspection, make-ready, purchasing, customer service, and inventory in a print/production environment. The incumbent will have solid attention to detail and interpersonal communication skills, and the ability to perform in a high volume work environment with speed and accuracy.

Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, Cenveo provides competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package.

Job Summary

Prepare, inspect, organize, and stage the necessary change parts and materials for all the changeovers in the plant, before the machines are shutdown to perform a changeover. Maintains accurate inventory of parts and supplies ensuring that parts are readily available to be shipped to facilities as requested. May assist in leading production employees to ensure a constant flow of production.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities (*Essential Functions)

These are functions a qualified incumbent or applicant must be able to perform with or without reasonable accommodation.

  • Coordinate the staging of job jacket, raw materials, and print plates.
  • Accurate change time tracking and documentation
  • Making Gummers; Mixing Inks
  • Maintain inventory and order change parts; Return of Used Parts & Material
  • Development/ Utilization of Make Ready SOP's
  • Maintain Tooling Condition (Sharp, Usable); Coordinate the reconditioning of Tooling
  • Read and understand written and verbal instructions, specifications and information
  • Problem-solving and decision making; consistent communication with manager/teams
  • Collaborate with pertinent contacts / departments to achieve goals
  • Inspect and monitor quality of products received from other departments or moving to another department, including packaging of materials for shipment to ensure quality standards are met
  • Actively support continuous improvement in processes and procedures
  • Promote and maintain a clean, safe and organized work area by adhering to Safety Policies
  • Responsible for collecting and accurately reporting necessary data
  • Performs physical inventories on a regular basis, to verify inventory records and correct discrepancies
  • Maintains hazardous chemical documentation and facilitates disposal of hazardous material
  • Provide coverage for other positions as needed.
Requirements

Job Requirements

  • Minimum related experience required for this position is 3-5 years.
  • Practical knowledge and experience of Offset/Flexo equipment/similar parts, inks, and solvents.
  • Knowledge of envelope sizes and paper weights and types preferred.
  • Minimum education required is a High School Diploma or equivalent.
  • Solid math, measuring, and computer skills are required
  • Requires excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Industry related experience and mechanical knowledge required.
  • Requires ongoing coordination, communication and/or team problem solving between departments or functional areas for work production or service quality.
  • Willingness to work overtimes/ other shifts if needed.
  • Ability to be innovative and problem solve is required
  • Requires contact with other all Functional Areas and outside vendors.

Physical Requirements & Environmental Conditions

  • Ability to keep up with a high-speed delivery output in a standing position for a full shift.
  • Mental alertness to stop equipment when jam occurs.
  • Ability to step up, reach overhead, and manually feed blanks into machine.
  • Requires regularly standing, walking, carrying, climbing, and reaching.
  • Ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
  • Manual dexterity required to grasp objects; exposure to arm and wrist fatigue.
  • Exposure to noise; must wear hearing protection and safety shoes.
  • Environment is a printing and manufacturing environment.
  • Exposure to dust, ink, solvents, vapors and loud noise.
  • Requires frequent bending, standing and walking throughout shift.
  • Requires manual dexterity and hand -- eye coordination.
  • Must have good color perception. Must be able to view all colors.

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