Machine Operator

You set the machine for the job on the order sheet, load the reel or the stack, set the register and run a first sheet for approval. Through the run you check the cut and the fold against the sample every two hundred sheets, adjust the knives and the glue, and clear jams without waiting for maintenance. Counts, waste and downtime go on the shift log. Shifts run 06:00-14:00 and 14:00-22:00 on a weekly rotation with a Saturday only when the order book demands it.

Technical school certificate or two years on production machinery

Able to read an order sheet and a machine setting card

Confident with a steel rule, a caliper and a register mark

Clears a jam and changes a knife without help

Willing to rotate two shifts every week

Basic English for the machine display and the maintenance menu

Residence and work authorisation for Greece, arranged before arrival

Net salary from 1100 up to 1210 EUR per month

Permanent contract after a three month trial period

Full EFKA insurance and the Greek fourteen salary year

Paid supplement for the afternoon shift

Company bus from Kifisia, Agios Stefanos and Kryoneri

Paid training on a second machine after the first six months

Work clothing, gloves, ear protection and safety shoes provided

An operator who takes on the setting work moves to machine setter, which carries a fixed allowance, and from there to shift leader. The plant also trains operators into its own maintenance team.

A dry, well lit hall with guarded machines, light curtains on the cutters and an extraction hood over the glue station. Ear protection, gloves and safety shoes are worn on the machine floor and are supplied by the employer.