- Company: Mill Rock Packaging
- Location: Aurora
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Mill Rock Packaging is seeking a skilled, detail-driven Finishing Operator II (Finishing/Gluer Operator) to join our production team in Aurora. This full-time, on-site role is ideal for a hands-on operator who takes pride in turning out flawless folding cartons and high-end printed packaging.
About the Role
As a Finishing Operator II at Mill Rock Packaging, you will run and tend finishing and gluing equipment that transforms printed paperboard into finished folding cartons. Working in Aurora, you will help deliver the precision, quality, and consistency our customers across food and beverage, technology, health and beauty, and pharmaceutical industries depend on.
Key Responsibilities
- Set up, operate, and monitor finishing and gluer machinery to meet production schedules and quality specifications.
- Inspect folding cartons and printed packaging throughout the run, catching defects and adjusting as needed.
- Make machine adjustments, clear jams, and support changeovers to keep output steady.
- Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work area in line with company and industry standards.
- Record production data accurately and communicate issues to leads and team members.
Qualifications
- Prior experience operating finishing, gluing, or similar production equipment, ideally in packaging or commercial printing.
- Strong attention to detail and a commitment to producing high-quality, accurate work.
- Ability to read job specifications and follow setup and safety procedures.
- Comfortable standing for extended periods and handling the physical demands of a manufacturing floor.
- Reliable, team-oriented, and able to work on-site in Aurora.
About Mill Rock Packaging
Mill Rock Packaging (MRP) is a growing, U.S.-based packaging company and a recognized leader in designing, engineering, and producing high-end, sustainable, and customized graphic paperboard, folding carton, and commercial printing products. We partner with customers across a wide range of industries — including food and beverage, technology, health and beauty, and pharmaceuticals — to bring premium packaging to life.
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Listing facts
- Role Finishing Operator II (Finishing/Gluer Operator)
- Employer Mill Rock Packaging
- Location Aurora
- Type Full Time
- Posted June 26, 2026
- Apply by 2026-07-28
- Country context US
- Overview Full original description on this page (336 words; rewritten for clarity, not a teaser paste)
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Typical work in Finishing Operator II
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- Examine stitched, collated, bound, or unbound product samples for defects, such as imperfect bindings, ink spots, torn pages, loose pages, or loose or uncut threads.
- Read work orders to determine instructions and specifications for machine set-up.
- Install or adjust bindery machine devices, such as knives, guides, rollers, rounding forms, creasing rams, or clamps, to accommodate sheets, signatures, or books of specified sizes.
- Trim edges of books to size, using cutting machines, book trimming machines, or hand cutters.
- Stitch or glue endpapers, bindings, backings, or signatures, using sewing machines, glue machines, or glue and brushes.
- Monitor machine operations to detect malfunctions or to determine whether adjustments are needed.
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