Laborer

Mativ; Stevens Point (WI); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in specialty materials, Mativ is hiring a Laborer to support its Sustainable and Adhesive Solutions team. The role involves operating equipment in a manufacturing environment, ensuring safety, and performing duties across multiple shifts, including weekends and holidays.

Qualifications

• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• Must be available to work rotating shifts.
• Ability to pass pre-employment tests.

Responsibilities

• Support multiple departments by operating paper mill equipment.
• Demonstrate personal safety awareness.
• Operate high-speed equipment after training.

Skills

Safety awareness

Mechanical skills

Communication

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Two-year technical degree

Job description

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Mativ is a global leader in specialty materials headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia. The Company offers a wide range of critical components and engineered solutions to solve our customers’ most complex challenges.

Position Title: Laborer

Location: Whiting, WI

Description:

Our Laborer supports Mativ’s Sustainable and Adhesive Solutions (SAS) team for Neenah Inc., a Mativ company (“Mativ”). This individual will support to multiple departments by performing tasks such as assisting and/or operating paper mill equipment, including a variety of material handling equipment and tools. The mill is a 24/7 operations so candidates must be willing and able to work rotating shifts including nights, overtime, weekends, and holidays.

responsibilities:

A combination of experience in the following areas is desirable:

• Demonstrate personal safety awareness and promote a safe work environment
• Good mechanical and troubleshooting skills
• Operate high speed equipment after an initial training period
• Ability to communicate effectively in a team or self-directed work environment
• Paper machine, converting, or other process related experience preferred but not required

qualifications:

Required

• Must be at least 18 years of age
• Must possess a high school diploma or GED
• Must be available to work rotating shifts that include weekends, holidays and overtime as necessary.
• Ability to pass pre-employment physical capabilities test, pre-employment drug/alcohol screen, and a background check.

Preferred

• A two-year technical degree a plus

Position Demands

Conditions are that of a manufacturing environment:

• Air Temperatures can range from cold to hot.
• Atmosphere may contain dust, fumes, and odors.
• May include mechanical, electrical, chemical, explosive and radiation hazards.

Employees are required to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) including:

• Safety Glasses
• Hearing Protection
• Protective Gloves, when performing certain tasks
• Bump Caps, when necessary
• Other personal protective equipment as required for certain tasks.

While performing the duties of this job the employee must meet the physical demands:

• Be able to lift up to 50 pounds.
• Be able to push up to 108 pounds or pull heavy objects up to 60 pounds.
• Be able to work 8-, 12-, or 16-hour shift.
• Routinely stand, sit, hear, walk, and talk.
• Reach, climb, bend, kneel, crouch, twist, and balance, sometimes in awkward or tight spaces.
• Have good close vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus.
• Meet Mativ certification requirements to operate powered industrial trucks.

The hourly rate for this position is a minimum of $27.23 per hour, plus shift differential.

ABOUT MATIV

Mativ Holdings, Inc. is a global leader in specialty materials headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia. The company makes material impacts on the world every day through a wide range of critical components and engineered solutions that solve our customers’ most complex challenges. We manufacture on three continents and generate sales in nearly 100 countries through our family of business-to-business and consumer product brands. The company’s two segments, Filtration & Advanced Materials and Sustainable & Adhesive Solutions, target premium applications across diversified and growing end-markets, from filtration to healthcare to sustainable packaging and more. Our broad portfolio of technologies combines polymers, fibers, and resins to optimize the performance of our customers’ products across multiple stages of the value chain. Our leading positions are a testament to our best-in-class global manufacturing, supply chain, and materials science capabilities. We drive innovation and enhance performance, finding potential in the impossible.

Mativ and its subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity Employers. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.