Description
Set up, operate, and tend wrapping machines to enclose products in film or paper for storage or shipment, ensuring seal integrity, accurate coding, and compliance with quality standards.
- • Load film onto mandrels, thread film paths, feed product to infeed, and unload wrapped goods.
- • Apply or verify labels, date codes, and lot markings on wrapped items and cartons.
- • Assemble cartons, line trays, and prepare packing materials for wrapped product.
- • Observe wrapping operations to ensure seal integrity, appearance, and conformity to specifications.
- • Adjust film tension, seal jaw pressure, guides, and forming components to match product size and material.
- • Tend and operate flow-wrap, shrink-wrap, or stretch-wrap machines.
- • Remove wrapped items from discharge and separate rejects for rework or disposal.
- • Set and regulate conveyor speed, sealing temperature, and shrink tunnel heat and airflow.
- • Stop or reset equipment during faults, clear jams or film breaks, and report issues to supervision.
- • Secure wraps by sealing, heat-shrinking, banding, or applying tape as required.
- • Stage product for wrapping and replenish supplies such as film rolls, shrink bags, trays, labels, ink, and cartons.
- • Inspect and remove products with poor seals, tears, wrinkles, contamination, or other defects.
- • Clean and remove damaged items or debris to prepare products for wrapping.
- • Sort and inspect items, verifying counts, dimensions, and wrap fit to meet specifications.
- • Perform routine cleaning, lubrication, and minor adjustments, including setting guides and replacing blades or Teflon.
- • Monitor the line for pile-ups, misfeeds, film tracking issues, poor seals, or shrink defects.
- • Stack wrapped items, apply protective material if needed, and pack into cartons or totes.
- • Start and stop wrapping equipment using control panels and HMIs.
- • Count and record wrapped output, scrap, and downtime in logs or systems.
- • Wrap products in the required format, such as single packs, bundles, or multi-packs, per order requirements.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
