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Auto Folder - Staples Promotional Products

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Compensation
$19/hr
Location
Orange City, IA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Staples Promotional Products is hiring an Auto Folder to fold and package screen-printed apparel in a cyclical production environment. The role uses an automatic folding machine and L-bar sealer, verifies product counts, and prepares orders for shipping or warehouse storage. Candidates need a high school diploma or GED, prior experience with the specified equipment, and the ability to meet stated physical demands.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Automatic Folding Machine OperationL-Bar Sealer OperationWork Order ComprehensionAttention to DetailTroubleshootingProblem SolvingPallet Jack OperationBasic MathLifting 40 PoundsStanding and Walking

Qualifications

High School Diploma or GEDBasic English SkillsPrior Automatic Folder and L-Bar Sealer Experience

Benefits

Paid Time Off
401(k) Match

Full job description

Staples is business to business. You’re what binds us together.

While you may know Staples as the world’s leading office supply company, Staples Promotional Products – a division of Staples – is a national leader in the promotional products industry. At Staples Promotional Products, we help customers build love for their brands with customized merchandise solutions. Whatever story they want to tell, connection they want to make, or goal they need to deliver, Staples Promo makes it easy to design promo experiences that create lasting impact. Join our winning team!

Pay: This is a Piece Rate position starting at $19.00/Hourly

Shift Hours: 6:00am-3:30pm/Monday-Thursday and 6:00am-12:00pm/Friday

What you’ll be doing:

  • Operate an automatic folding machine and L-bar sealer to fold and package screen-printed products, such as t-shirts, long sleeve shirts, and shorts.

  • Review work orders and package products accurately, efficiently, and safely with minimal errors.

  • Accurately count and pack products into boxes for shipping or totes for warehouse storage.

  • Verify counts against the automatic folding machine counter; research and resolve discrepancies.

  • Document work order information on the outside of packing materials and attach travelers, such as shipping and tracking information, when needed.

  • Work with a partner to process orders, sharing and alternating duties after each work order is completed.

  • Repeat the folding and packaging process for each new work order in a cyclical production environment.

What you bring to the table:

  • Ability to read and comprehend a work order

  • Detail oriented to ensure high-quality print standards are met and to ensure work orders are accurately filled and packaged with correct materials

  • Skills in troubleshooting and solving problems

  • Able to utilize pallet jack to move full pallets to next work area. Brings back an empty pallet for the next work order

What’s Needed – Basic Qualifications

  • High School Diploma or GED

  • Abie to maintain accurate counts utilizing basic math skills

  • Ability to lift up to 40lbs

  • Able to stand and/or walk continuously for three hours at a time

  • Basic English language skills (both verbal and written communications).

What’s Needed-Basic Qualifications:

  • Prior experience with an automatic folding machine and L-bar sealer including their uses and adjustments

We Offer:

  • Inclusive culture with associate-led Business Resource Groups

  • 112 Hours of PTO and Holiday Schedule (7 observed paid holidays + 1 floating holiday)

  • Online and Retail Discounts, Company Match 401(k), Physical and Mental Health Wellness programs, and more!

The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Staples is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender idenity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.

For individuals with disabilities that need additional assistance at any point in the process, please call 1-888-490-4747 for more information.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,028 open Production jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$19/hr
  • US median$20–22/hr921 hourly ranges

This rate, $19/hr, is 10% below the US median midpoint ($21/hr) — in the middle half of Production hourly ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 48 open Production jobs in Iowa and 2,028 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Iowa
Experience
Production postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 4 years (623 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 957 of the 2,028 open Production jobs (47%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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