Entry Level General Utility

Smurfit-Westrock; New Town (AL); On-site; USD 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Smurfit Westrock is hiring for an entry-level position at Stevenson Mill in Alabama. The role involves working in a 365-day continuous operation with 12-hour rotating shifts, learning and progressing through the department’s classifications, and serving on the Emergency Response Team with training in disaster response and safety procedures.

Ideal candidates will have a high school diploma or GED, be at least 18, and bring a willingness to learn and operate around large machinery and moving

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED.
• Must be 18 years of age.
• Willing to learn, rotate, and progress in a 12-hour shift manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the Emergency Response Team (ERT).
• Read and understand technical memos, instructions and reports.
• Carry out tasks requiring sequence of steps under changing conditions.
• Select and properly use PPE per hazards and requirements.
• Safely use equipment and tools as directed.
• Learn, perform, rotate, and progress to top job class in the department.

Skills

Safety mindset

Emergency response readiness

Technical literacy

Education

High School diploma or GED

Tools

Overhead crane

Bobcat

Lift truck

Clamp truck

Scissors lift

Job description

Smurfit Westrock (NYSE:SW) is the go-to leader and partner of choice in sustainable packaging. We are dedicated to creating efficient and scalable paper and packaging solutions to help solve complex packaging challenges. Guided by our values of safety, loyalty, integrity and respect, we are committed to delivering meaningful value for shareholders, customers, employees and the communities where we operate.

The Opportunity:

This is an entry-level job requiring employees to work rotating 12-hour shifts, in a continuous 365 day/year manufacturing operation. Entry level employees are required to learn, perform, rotate, and progress up to and including top job classification within the department’s work system. Entry level employees are also required to serve on the emergency response team where they will be trained in and expected to perform with regards to disaster response, rescue procedures, HAZMAT spill response, and fire-fighting procedures. Employees are required to take call periodically and are expected to work occasionally on their scheduled off days.

The Stevenson Mill is a complex, fully integrated pulp and paper manufacturing facility with two machines that manufactures corrugated medium and is one of North America’s largest semi-chemical pulp and paper mill. Stevenson, Alabama is centrally located between Chattanooga, Tennessee and Huntsville, Alabama. This is a unionized facility with approximately 400 employees

What you need to succeed:

(Basic Requirements)

• High School diploma or GED
• Must be 18 years of age

(Preferred Requirements)

• Pulp & Paper Manufacturing experience
• Experience operating an overhead crane
• Experience operating a bobcat, lift truck, clamp truck and scissors lift
• Experience working around large moving machinery
• Experience working a rotating shift
• 2 years of continuous work experience.

How you will impact Smurfit Westrock: (Preferred)

• Participating in the Emergency Response Team (ERT)
• Read and understand technical correspondence, memos, instructions, and reports.
• Carry out tasks which require a sequence of steps and dealing with upset conditions that may affect or modify normal operational parameters.
• Select and properly use personal protective equipment per the specific hazard or hazards in accordance with Smurfit Westrock and department requirements.
• Safely use equipment and tools
• Learn, perform, rotate, and progress up to and including top job classification within the department’s line of progression

Candidates are required to undergo a drug screening after receiving a conditional job offer, but before starting employment.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law.