How do they match: Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

  • Carton Forming Machine Operator
  • Four Corner Former Machine Operator

  • Set up, operate, or tend paper goods machines that perform a variety of functions, such as converting, sawing, corrugating, banding, wrapping, boxing, stitching, forming, or sealing paper or paperboard sheets into products.

  • Adjust guide assemblies, forming bars, and folding mechanisms according to specifications, using hand tools.
  • Monitor finished cartons as they drop from forming machines into rotating hoppers and into gravity feed chutes to prevent jamming.
  • Observe operation of various machines to detect and correct machine malfunctions such as improper forming, glue flow, or pasteboard tension.