Packaging Associate I

Novolex; Kalamazoo (MI); On-site; USD 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision insurance

Tuition Reimbursement Program (Non-UN)

Learning Management System training

Job summary

Novolex in Kalamazoo, MI is hiring Packers to inspect, pack and rotate across production lines, ensuring products meet quality standards.

Shifts: Days 5:20am–5:30pm or Nights 5:20pm–5:30am with 3 paid breaks. Pay starts at $19.32/hour, with a weekly schedule that includes weekends.

We offer safety-focused environment, medical/dental/vision insurance, and opportunities for training and development.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Must be able to perform essential functions with or without reasonable accommodations.
• Ability to read and understand written specifications, safety issues and interpretation of diagrams for proper packaging.

Responsibilities

• Inspects and packages product, rotates through production lines as directed.
• Works independently with guidance from line technicians and ensures packed product meets quality standards.
• Identifies cases, meets daily production requirements, and assists with grinding of scrap materials.
• Provides training support as required.

Skills

Attention to detail

Teamwork

Effective communication

Safety compliance

Quality inspection

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Company Overview

Why Choose Us?

Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries including foodservice, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Novolex manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates including resin, paper, molded fiber, aluminum and more. We provide customers a broad array of stock and customized solutions with 120 product categories, 250 brands and over 39,000 SKUs.

Our Sustainability Commitment

The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products, our operations and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability, helping us achieve our ambitious goals through our wide-ranging initiatives.

Job Description

Are you looking to further or even start your career in manfacturing? Pactiv Evergreen, now a part of Novolex, is hiring Packers for our Kalamazoo plant.

ROLE: Inspects and packages product, rotates throughout production lines as directed by the Team Leader. Works independently (though informed by line technician as well as other IP’s) and assures the product that he/she is packing is free of defects and meets all standards that have been established by the Pactiv Evergreen Quality Department.

Shift: Days, 5:20am to 5:30pm, with 3 paid breaks

Shift: Nights, 5:20pm to 5:30am, with 3 paid breaks

Pay: Starting at $19.32/HR

Schedule:

Week 1: Monday(work), Tuesday (work), Wednesday (OFF), Thursday (OFF), Weekend (work)

Week 2:Monday (OFF), Tuesday (OFF), Wednesday (work), Thursday (work), Weekend (OFF)

Key Job Requirements:

• Maintain safe, clean and friendly work environment
• Visually inspect product for quality compliance
• Ensure that customer requirements are met or exceeded
• Make-up and pack boxes with respective product ensuring that product is not mixed
• Meet daily production requirements
• Properly identify each case that is packed
• Assist with grinding of scrap materials as required
• Assist with training responsibilities as required
• Other duties as necessary

Technicial Competencies

Inspection:

• Demonstrates attention to detail focusing on accuracy
• Ability to accurately identify differences between major and minor defects

Communication/Teamwork:

• Ability to communicate effectively and work closely and productively as part of a cross-functional team
• Ability to create and/or exhibit an atmosphere of openness, honesty, trust and teamwork

Safety:

• Demonstrates ability to understand and actively participate in all company safety programs, policies and procedures
• Demonstrates understanding and knowledge of safe equipment operations

Quality/Housekeeping:

• Ability to develop and maintain processes that are ISO compliant
• Ability to be a self starter and work independently
• Can demonstrate ability to maintain work area in clean, safe order
• Demonstrates ability to sort out-of-spec product for regrind

Product Knowledge:

Demonstrates knowledge of FK products and materials and can differentiate between them

Training:

Demonstrates ability to ensure trainees follow established procedures in absence of trainer

Education & Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent experience in lieu of education
• Must be able to perform essential functions with or without reasonable accommodations and without posing a threat to the health and safety of fellow employees
• Ability to read and understand written specifications, safety issues and interpretation of diagrams for proper packaging

ADA – Essential Functions:

Must be able to-

• Work a 8 or12-hour shift, standing and walking for extended periods
• Climb
• Heed safety warnings, devices and alarms
• Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
• Lift, push, pull, grasp, and carry products weighing up to 50 lbs
• Possess an adequate ability to do problem solving and establish cause and effect relationships in an office and/or manufacturing environment

Company Benefits

What You'll Get From Us

Benefits

With safety as our top priority and a commitment to employee well-being an important focus, we offer comprehensive and competitive benefits that include medical, dental and vision insurance as well as a variety of other well-being resources focused on mental, physical and financial health. Specific benefits and well-being programs may vary depending on where you work.

Community Engagement

At Novolex, giving back to the local communities that support us is important. Our Focused Giving Program prioritizes support for organizations whose missions promote sustainability initiatives or address food and hunger needs. We also encourage facility level support of activities in the communities where our employees live and work.

Training and Development

We offer constant opportunities for advancement. From skills development to advanced education programs, training and development programs and courses are available through MyLearning. Programs include company and industry training curricula, support for formal education through the Tuition Reimbursement Program (Non-Union), and a Learning Management System that supports and enhances employee skills at all levels of the organization.

Novolex is committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices, including but not limited to selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, handicap or disability, genetics, citizenship status, service member or veteran status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law. Any individual who, because of his or her disability, needs an accommodation in connection with an aspect of the Company's application process should contact [e-mail].

Formerly Pactiv Evergreen