Machine Operator I - Packaging B Shift - LX

Amcor Rigid Packaging; Franklin (IN); On-site; USD 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision plans

Paid time off

Retirement Savings Plan with company match

Discretionary bonus program

Job summary

Amcor Rigid Packaging is hiring a Machine Operator located in Franklin, Indiana. The role includes performing repetitive production and packing operations on plastic bottles as well as monitoring machinery flow. Ideal candidates should have a high school diploma and manufacturing experience.

Safety and attention to detail are crucial as the operator must ensure the quality of products meets specifications while adhering to safety standards.

Benefits include medical plans, paid time off, and a retirement savings plan.

Qualifications

• Must have at least one year of manufacturing related experience or training.
• Ability to communicate in simple sentences.
• Capable of lifting and moving up to 50 pounds.

Responsibilities

• Perform repetitive production and packing operations.
• Monitor product flow into processing machinery.
• Assure all plant safety/accident prevention policies are followed.

Skills

Manufacturing experience

Ability to work in hot environments

Attention to detail

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

Title

Machine Operator

Reports To

Production Supervisor

Summary

Performs repetitive production and packing operations to mass process products such as plastic bottles.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Employee works from a production schedule located within the work area.
• Randomly checks product produced every hour to ensure customer specifications are met.
• Monitors flow of product into processing machinery.
• Tends machines, such as palletizers, case packers, injection machines and box machine to maintain product flow.
• Works at different work stations as production needs require.
• Works on lines where tasks vary, as product of various shapes and sizes move along lines.
• Check finished product for possible defects.
• Wears all required personal protective equipment.
• Assures and participates in all plant safety/accident prevention policies. This includes maintaining a safe work environment and follows safe work practices.
• Maintains housekeeping of work areas.
• Follow all HACCP, GMP and Product Safety rules and guidelines.
• Train current and new members of the department to perform job related tasks as needed.
• Learn new on the job skills as training opportunities become available.
• Any other tasks that may be assigned.
• Must attend monthly shift meetings 6am for day shift or 6pm for night shift.

Supervisory Responsibilities

None.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Education: High school diploma or general education degree; or at least one year manufacturing related experience and/or training or equivalent combination.
• Language Skills: Ability to read a limited number of two and three syllable words and to recognize similarities and differences between words and series of numbers. Ability to print and speak simple sentences.

Physical Demands

The employee must be able to manipulate product with both hands, both above and below shoulder height, stand on a solid surface for a minimum of twelve (12) hours, ascend and descend stairs and ladders, frequently lift and/or move up to fifty (50) pounds, demonstrate repetitive motion with a pallet jack and push/pull up to seven hundred (700) pounds throughout the day (12 hour shift). Specific vision abilities required include close visual inspection of product. The employee must be able to perform job functions in temperatures of one hundred plus degrees during summer season and fifty degrees during winter season.

Training

• Lock Out / Tag Out
• Bloodborne Pathogen
• Hearing Conservation / PPE
• Right to Know / Hazardous Communication
• Emergency Evacuation
• Ladder Safety / Fall Protection
• Confined Space Entry
• Forklift Safety
• HACCP / GMP
• HRIS Systems (Ceridian/WFC)
• Corporate Training Requirements

Level of Authority

• If you believe your health or safety, or the health and safety of others, may be endangered by physical conditions or by equipment, you must report your concern to your supervisor.
• You have the right to hold for inspection any product you feel does not meet customer/company specifications.
• Those employees with authorized training have the ability to shut down/stop equipment if continued operation is a threat to any employee's health and safety.
• Contact any member of management without fear of reprisal concerning questions, suggestions, or complaints regarding quality, working conditions or job environment.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Amcor is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision plans
• Paid time off, starting at 40 hours per year for full-time hourly employees, may vary by location
• Company-paid holidays starting at 8 days per year and may vary by location
• Wellbeing programs & Employee Assistance Program
• Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
• Life insurance, AD&D, short-term & long-term disability, and voluntary benefits
• Paid Parental Leave
• Retirement Savings Plan with company match
• Tuition Reimbursement (dependent upon approval)
• Discretionary bonus program (initial eligibility dependent upon hire date)