# Materials Management Associate

**Company**: Thomson Reuters
**Location**: Eagan, MN
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $18 USD - $34 USD
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

We are hiring a Materials Management Associate for our printing plant team in Eagan, Minnesota. As a Materials Management Associate, you will be responsible for performing set-up tasks, monitoring the equipment, and troubleshooting on our Core Publishing Solutions team. For this role, you would also be eligible for a bonus of $2,500 upon being in the role for 90 days.

**Hours of Work**

- 3rd shift – 10:30 pm – 6:30 am

- Occasional overtime up to 4 hours per day and occasional weekend shifts

**Key Responsibilities**

- Reviewing job specifications for material and set-up requirements

- Performing set-up tasks

- Monitoring the equipment and product quality; obtaining maintenance support for equipment as needed

- Performing simple to moderately complex troubleshooting related to product or equipment

- Communicating effectively during shift and at shift hand-off

- Evaluating mechanical condition of equipment, completing preventative maintenance

- Using computer-based workflow applications to manage files

- Accurately documenting activities on Tier Boards and in relevant systems (MII, SAP), including material usage and equipment issues

- Performing feeding, catching off, stacking, bundling, or physical inventory cycle count activities

- Actively participating in company safety programs and contributing to a safe culture

- Meeting or exceeding established quality and productivity standards utilizing standard work procedures

- Generating, implementing, and sustaining continuous improvement ideas

- Participating in project teams as needed

- Providing backup for other operators to cover absences or breaks

- Recommending and implementing process improvements

**Required Qualifications**

- High School Diploma/GED or higher

- Good mechanical and technical skills, with the ability to troubleshoot and work independently and as part of a team to resolve issues

- Knowledge of Lean concepts and continuous improvement

- Competent with rulers and measurement

- Good communication skills

- Able to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and production orders

- Can regularly lift at least 5 lbs above the shoulder, and push, pull, and lift at least 10 lbs occasionally up to 50 lbs

- Can regularly stand, walk, crouch, bend, reach, and kneel

- Can wear Personal Protective Equipment including steel toe shoes and ear protection

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Vocational or technical degree

- Experience on Perfect Binders with up to 40 station collators, 3-knife trimmers, inline boxing, and palletizing

- Experience with hard-cover casing-in lines

- Experience with collating/kitting lines with up to 30 streamfeeder stations

- Experience with packaging/cartooning lines

- Experience with Sitma mail lines

- Experience with Aster sewing equipment

- Experience with hot foil stampers

**What's in it For You?**

- **Flexibility & Work-Life Balance**: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities.

- **Career Development and Growth**: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions.

- **Industry Competitive Benefits**: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include paid leave, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

- **Culture**: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

- **Social Impact**: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

- **Making a Real-World Impact**: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency.

## Skills

### Required
- Lean concepts
- continuous improvement
- mechanical skills
- technical skills
- troubleshooting
- communication skills
- problem-solving

### Nice to have
- Perfect Binders
- hard-cover casing-in lines
- collating/kitting lines
- packaging/cartooning lines
- Sitma mail lines
- Aster sewing equipment
- hot foil stampers

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