Entry Level Machine Operator - Days

Rust-Oleum; Pleasant Prairie (WI); On-site; USD 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Filler Helper, where your role is crucial in ensuring the quality and efficiency of paint packaging. This dynamic position involves operating and tending to machines, adjusting components, and ensuring that products meet high standards of quality. With a commitment to innovation and excellence, this established industry player offers a collaborative environment where your contributions will make a significant impact. If you're ready to be part of a passionate team dedicated to crafting top-tier protective paints and coatings, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required.
• 1+ years of industry-related experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Operate and tend to machines for packaging paint efficiently.
• Inspect and remove defective products and packaging materials.
• Adjust machine components and regulate flow, speed, or temperature.

Skills

Communication Skills

Organizational Skills

Ability to Lift 75 Pounds

Data Entry

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

As our Filler Helper you are responsible for operating, setting up, changing over, assisting, or tending to machines in order to package paint in a safe, consistent, and efficient manner.

The same passion that drove our founder, sea captain Robert Fergusson, to create the world's first rust-preventative paint still drives us today. When we see a problem, we work diligently until we've perfected a solution, which has led to some of the most cutting-edge, durable, and innovative products in the industry. Our creative and talented team of over 2000 people across every corner of the world helps us remain the global leader in protective paints and coatings for both home and industry.

Here's what you can expect every day:

• Observe machine operations to ensure quality and conformity of filled or packaged products to standards.
• Adjust machine components and machine tension and pressure according to size or processing angle of product.
• Tend to or operate machines that package product.
• Remove finished packaged items from machine and separate rejected items.
• Regulate machine flow, speed, or temperature.
• Stop or reset machines when malfunctions occur, clear machine jams, and report malfunctions to a supervisor.
• Secure finished packaged items by hand tying, sewing, gluing, stapling, or attaching fastener.
• Stock and sort product for packaging or filling machine operation, and replenish packaging supplies, such as wrapping paper, plastic sheet, boxes, cartons, glue, ink, or labels.
• Inspect and remove defective products and packaging material.
• Clean and remove damaged or otherwise inferior materials to prepare raw products for processing.

Required Experience:

• High school diploma or GED certificate
• 1 or more years experience of industry-related work preferred but not required
• Ability to accurately read and enter computer data
• Strong communication and organizational skills
• Ability to consistently lift 75 pounds

Additional Consideration Given to Those With:

• Exposure to quality programs
• Paint/Coatings/chemical industry knowledge or experience
• Experience with a continuous process discipline such as Six Sigma/Lean/TQM manufacturing environment.
• Previous experience with safety programs

Rust-Oleum is an equal opportunity employer. Employment selection and related decisions are made without regard to sex, race, age, disability, religion, national origin, color, or any other protected class.