Extrusion Technician

Georgia-Pacific LLC; Janesville (WI); On-site; USD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision insurance

401(k) matching

Educational assistance program

Paid time off and holidays

Short-term and long-term disability

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific LLC is seeking an experienced Extrusion Technician for its Janesville, WI facility. The successful candidate will operate and optimize extrusion equipment, ensuring product quality while meeting production targets in a safety-focused environment.

Key responsibilities include setting operating parameters, inspecting product quality, and maintaining safety standards. Competitive benefits including medical, dental, vision insurance, and 401(k) matching are provided.

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

• Operate and optimize extrusion equipment to meet production targets.
• Inspect quality and correct any defects in finished product.
• Adjust machine components to regulate production parameters.
• Record and maintain production data and troubleshoot equipment issues.

Skills

Operating industrial manufacturing equipment

Troubleshooting equipment

Reading gauges (digital caliper, micrometer)

Bilingual in Spanish and English

Job description

Extrusion Technician (Janesville, WI)

Panoramic (A Georgia Pacific Company) is seeking an Extrusion Technician for their Janesville, WI facility. The Extrusion Technician will support production by operating, monitoring, and optimizing extrusion equipment to ensure consistent product quality and meet or exceed production targets. This role is responsible for maintaining high standards of safety, quality, efficiency, machine up‑time, and scrap reduction, while contributing to continuous improvement efforts within the plastics department at the lowest possible cost.

Work schedule: 2-2-3 schedule. Rotating 12‑hour shifts from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm or 6:00 pm to 6:00 am with a $2 hourly shift differential for nights. Every other weekend and holidays are required.

Compensation commensurate with experience.

Panoramic is a dynamic manufacturing company that offers competitive benefits such as medical, dental, vision insurance, 401(k) matching, tuition reimbursement, and more.

Benefits Overview

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Educational assistance program
• Infertility support and adoption/surrogacy assistance
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• Mental health coverage and support for you and your family
• 401(k) matching and fixed contribution based on years of service
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Legal and financial advice

What You Will Do

• Set extruder operating parameters.
• Inspect the quality and correct any defects in the finished product.
• Notify appropriate personnel when extruded product fails to meet standards.
• Adjust machine components to regulate speeds, pressures, temperatures, amounts, dimensions, and flow of materials or ingredients.
• 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.
• Record and maintain production data such as meter readings and quantities, types and dimensions of materials produced.
• Move materials, supplies, components and finished product.
• Troubleshoot equipment and production issues.
• Follow documentation procedures and ensure paperwork is complete.
• Assist in training.

Basic 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.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Sheet extrusion experience for thermoforming applications.
• Experience operating a sheet die.
• Experience with the blending, crystallizing, and drying process.
• Experience working with GMP, food-safety and ISO procedures.
• Experience working with thermoforming or injection molding equipment.
• Bilingual in Spanish and English.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf