Machine Operator Team Leader

DOUGLAS RUBSAM

Newton, IL.

217-***-**** ************@*****.***

TEAM LEADER / MACHINE OPERATOR

Production Leader and Machine Operator with progressive career growth gained in high-performance and quality production environments support demanding customers while under deadline pressure. Creative, resourceful, and analytical with applied technical skills in Industrial Management, Maintenance, Technical Applications, and Continuous Process Improvement combined with a thorough understanding of tactical planning, operations, and personnel management.

Innovative and industrious with operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting skills on high-speed, wide-web, multi-color offset printing presses, and auxiliary components. Results-oriented and accountable with expertise in inventory management, daily production reports analysis, and budget adherence. Focused, versatile, and multi-task oriented, able to work collaboratively with others in high-demand situations and deal courteously, professionally, and tactfully with customers, corporate leaders, production managers, fellow-supervisors, and assemblers.

EXPERIENCE

QUAD www.quad.com Effingham, IL. 1991 to 12/2023 (Plant closure) A 700 (peak) employee / 565K sq. ft. commercial printing plant. This division specializes in short-to-medium run catalogs and publications, print-on-demand, direct mail, and promotional collateral. The printing industry is adapting to ever-evolving e- communications and to a changing / shrinking print-communications marketplace. Team Leader / Lead Press Operator

• Provide leadership, training, and development of five crewmembers working on a multi-unit, double-web, heat-set, offset printing press producing consumer publications and catalogs.

• Monitor the flow of materials, equipment set-ups, job progress, quality, and scheduling. Committed to safety, quality, efficiency, productivity, and customer satisfaction.

• Oversee the preparation of the press for operation by verifying proper documentation and web-threading procedures and inspecting, adjusting, or replacing slitter knives. Set register, mount plates, maintain water supply center, and adjust amounts for proper ink solution.

• Troubleshoot, repair, and perform preventative maintenance on equipment.

• Interface with customers on analysis of samples and “Color OKs” and provide on-press technical advice to customers and plant personnel.

EDUCATION TRAINING CERTIFICATIONS

Education: High School Graduate / Diploma, Newton Community High School, Newton, IL. Leadership: Communication skills and Problem & Conflict Solving, Team Building, and Decision Making, Troubleshooting Techniques training & development.

Process Improvement: Continuous Process Improvement and Lean Methodologies (Six Sigma), Kaizen / Just-In-Time Inventory Management & Control, GEMBA walk process

Compliance: HR Policies & Procedures, Business Code-of-Conduct and Ethics, Labor Law regulatory compliance including Workplace / Sexual Harassment awareness and prevention, Understanding Diversity, etc. Safety & Environmental: OSHA / Safety compliance and Hazardous Materials (MSDS) training, Hearing Conservation, Machine Guarding, Confined Spaces,, Lock-Out / Tag-Out (LO/TO), Fire Prevention & Extinguishers, and Personal Protective Equipment

(PPE), Material Handling equipment (including Forklifts – stand-up & sit-down) and ergonomics, Emergency Procedures & Evacuation.