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F/G 1st Helper

Akers Packaging Service Group
Van Wert, OH Full Time
POSTED ON 11/20/2025 CLOSED ON 12/2/2025

What are the responsibilities and job description for the F/G 1st Helper position at Akers Packaging Service Group?

Position Summary

The Folder/Gluer 1 st Helper assists in the operation of a machine that folds and glues corrugated sheets that have been previously scored, slotted, and/or printed.

This Position Also Delivers On Our Core Focus Of:

  • Service Matters
  • Relationships Count
  • Performance Delivered

While Building On Our Core Values Of:

  • Help 1st
  • Take ownership
  • Do the right thing
  • Expect excellence

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

  • Assists with setup of machine to Factory Job Ticket specifications. This includes setting the feed section, the glue heads, and the guides
  • Feeds sheets into the hopper at the feed section of the machine
  • Moves loads of sheets on the conveyor line
  • Adjusts ensure no jams occur
  • Performs housekeeping duties as necessary between orders and at end of shift
  • Ability to work in excess of 40 hours, as business needs arise
  • Regular and reliable attendance
  • Any other task or duty that is deemed necessary by management.

Cultural Competencies

Help First Means Being a Reliable Team Member Serving Everyone, Internally And Externally. At Akers, We Believe And Exhibit a “roll Up Your Sleeves And Get The Job Done” Mentality And Behavior. No Job Is Unimportant, And No Person Is Above Any Job. We Demonstrate This Through:

  • Able communicator—good clarity, balanced talker, and listener
  • Has energy and enthusiasm

Take Ownership means That You Think And Act Like An Owner. No Matter The Role, Everyone Is Empowered To Be a Good Steward Of The Organization. Each Person Has The Autonomy To Make Recommendations For Improvement To Their Work And The Organization. We Demonstrate This Through:

  • Patient
  • Effectively assertive and able to handle conflict and confrontational situations
  • Solution vs. blame oriented
  • Mixture of firmness and flexibility
  • Has energy and enthusiasm
  • Holds self and others accountable

Do the Right Thing means that you do the right thing for the customer, regardless of its popularity. Doing the right thing at the right time requires a person to have and exhibit high moral standards.

  • Systematic trainer, willing and able to develop people
  • Good work ethic, task focused and willing to extend extra effort
  • Able to follow structure where it exists and create structure where it does not

Expect Excellence Means That You Think And Act Like An Owner. No Matter The Role, Everyone Is Empowered To Be a Good Steward Of The Organization. We Demonstrate This Through:

  • Resilient—able to deal with the unexpected, not easily flustered
  • Has sense of urgency
  • Follows up to ensure quality task completion

Work Environment / Physical Demands

  • Fast paced environment, requiring adaptation to continuous changes in Company, Customer and People needs
  • Ability to frequently stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl.
  • Ability to regularly lift up to 10 pounds, occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
  • Vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, ability to adjust focus
  • Regular exposure to moving mechanical parts
  • Exposure to a loud environment

Systems Usage

  • ERP System (such as Harry Rhodes, Amtech, Parabox, etc.)
  • Kiwi
  • ADP Workforce Now

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

  • 18 years of age or older
  • GED or high school diploma, 1-3 months experience or combination of education and experience

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