Press operators, injection molding techs, extrusion specialists, packaging line leads, quality professionals. Cannonball's plastics, printing, and packaging division is a dedicated vertical, not a side offering.
Your maintenance team is stretched thin. Your quality metrics are slipping. The agency you've been using doesn't know the difference between injection molding and blow molding. We've heard every version of this. We built this division to fix it.
You can't put a general machine operator on a flexographic press and expect quality output. Injection molding isn't extrusion. A label printer isn't a web offset press. The candidate needs experience on the exact equipment on your floor.
One bad run on a press or molding machine means scrap, rework, and chargebacks. In food packaging or pharma, quality failures carry compliance risk on top of the financial hit. The cost of the wrong hire compounds fast.
Finding maintenance techs who can troubleshoot PLCs, fix hydraulics, and handle electrical across plastics and printing equipment is nearly impossible. Your PM schedule slips, reactive maintenance climbs, and the plant manager spends half the day in emergency mode.
You win a contract or hit peak season and need to ramp up. The talent pool for experienced press operators, extrusion techs, and packaging machine operators is razor thin. By the time job board postings produce candidates, the contract timeline is already slipping.
What presses have you run? What materials? What speeds? Those are the questions that separate us from generalists.
We've placed for plastics manufacturers, printing companies, packaging firms, and paper manufacturers. These are the roles we know how to source, and how to qualify against your specific equipment.
BJ Ruble runs this division. He's spent years building relationships specifically in plastics, printing, and packaging, and that focus shows up in every search.
We don't ask "have you run a press." We ask what presses, what materials, what speeds, what quality standards you held. We know the difference between flexo and offset, injection and blow molding, web-fed and sheet-fed. Specificity is what separates good placements from bad ones.
Trade-specific candidate networks, equipment-specific databases, competitor sourcing in your geography. We don't post jobs and pray, we go directly to the operators and techs who already know the work.
Cannonball is MBE-certified through the NMSDC and veteran-owned. If your company responds to RFPs or has supplier diversity spend requirements, our certification can strengthen your bids and our network of certified partners can support broader compliance.
Try before you buy. Press operators, molding techs, and packaging line leads start on Cannonball's payroll, prove themselves on your floor, and convert to permanent. Best for production roles where machine-specific competency has to be verified.
Learn morePermanent hires for senior, specialized, or leadership roles. Plant managers, process engineers, quality managers, maintenance supervisors. Tight shortlist of qualified candidates, not a flood of resumes.
Learn moreWe become your recruiting team for plastics, printing, and packaging hiring. Best for plants scaling fast, multi-line operations, or companies opening new facilities and needing to staff up from scratch.
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A Talent Needs Call is a thirty-minute conversation about what you've got open, what's been tried, what's not working, and whether Cannonball is the right fit. Even if we don't end up working together, you'll walk away with useful perspective on your specific talent market.
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