Extrusion Operator – 12-Hour Shifts, Night Diff

Georgia-Pacific LLC; Janesville (WI); On-site; USD 25,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia Pacific is seeking Production Operators for their Janesville, WI facility. The Production Operator will support production by operating, monitoring, and optimizing extrusion equipment to ensure consistent product quality and meet or exceed production targets.

This role emphasizes safety, quality, efficiency, machine uptime, and scrap reduction within the plastics department. Operators work a 12-hour shifts on a 2-2-3 schedule, with scheduled start times at 6am or 6pm.

Qualifications

• Experience operating, troubleshooting, or maintaining industrial manufacturing equipment.
• Experience working in a safety-focused industrial or manufacturing environment.
• Experience reading gauges including a digital caliper and micrometer.

Responsibilities

• Adjust machine components to regulate speeds, pressures, temperatures and amounts, dimensions and flow of materials or ingredients
• Set extruder operating parameters
• Inspect the quality and correct any defects in the finished product
• Operate controls to adjust machine functions, such as regulating air pressure or die gaps
• Review work orders, specifications or instructions to determine materials, ingredients, procedures, components, settings, and adjustments for extruding plastic sheet
• Examine, measure and weigh materials or products to verify conformance to standards, using measuring devices such as micrometers or scales
• Move materials, supplies, components and finished product
• Troubleshoot equipment and production issues

Skills

Industrial equipment operation

Troubleshooting

Maintenance of manufacturing equipment

Tools

Digital caliper

Micrometer

Job description

Georgia Pacific is seeking Production Operators for their Janesville, WI facility. The Production Operator will support production by operating, monitoring, and optimizing extrusion equipment to ensure consistent product quality and meet or exceed production targets.

This role emphasizes safety, quality, efficiency, machine uptime, and scrap reduction within the plastics department. Operators work a 12-hour shifts on a 2-2-3 schedule, with scheduled start times at 6am or 6pm.