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Press 1st Helper

Akers Packaging Service Group
Mount Vernon, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 12/12/2025 CLOSED ON 1/10/2026

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

Position Summary

The Press 1 st Helper sets up and helps operate the printing press to print designs or lettering on corrugates sheets.

This Position Also Delivers On Our Core Focus Of:

  • Service Matters
  • Relationships Count
  • Performance Delivered

While Building On Our Core Values Of:

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

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

  • Visually checks stock according to Factory Order specifications (Color, Flute, and Scoring)
  • Measure and record caliper on Factory Order
  • Sets gates, side guides, kicker, backstop, scores and slotters section, head knives, pull rolls, stacker, and lay boy as needed per the Factory Order
  • Runs set-up carton and makes necessary adjustments to achieve conforming carton
  • Runs orders
  • Observes all safety policies and procedures, including Lock-Out-Tag-Out rules
  • 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, and crouch; talk and hear
  • Ability to occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
  • Vision abilities required include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception
  • Regular exposure to moving mechanical parts
  • Exposure to a loud environment
  • Exposure to wet and/or humid conditions and fumes or airborne particles

Systems Usage

  • ERP system (such as HRMS, 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

Akers complies with all pay transparency laws. Benefits information can be found on our website.

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