Packaging Machine Operator - Quality & Safety

Silgan Plastics; Flora (IL); On-site; USD 36,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Silgan Plastics in Illinois is seeking a Machine Operator to keep production lines running while meeting established specifications. The role emphasizes safety, quality, and housekeeping as core priorities on the shift.

You will ensure machine safety, document bottle quality requirements, sustain efficiencies, and perform basic preventive maintenance and color changes to support daily production targets.

Qualifications

• Experience operating production machines in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to read and follow quality specifications and process instructions.
• Strong attention to safety, quality, and housekeeping standards.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring machine operates safely in accordance with GMP and housekeeping standards.
• Understanding bottle quality requirements and documenting those requirements.
• Sustaining efficiencies and minimizing scrap to meet company goals.
• Communicating machine, process, and quality related issues effectively.
• Diagnosing problems and logically troubleshooting tasks.
• Following directions from supervisors and managers.
• Performing color changes when required.
• Carrying out minor preventive maintenance on machines during shift.
• Completing quality inspections and recording them in SPC software.
• Conducting mechanical and process related troubleshooting on plant processes.
• Assisting with any additional duties to support the plant.

Job description

Silgan Plastics in Illinois is seeking a Machine Operator to keep production lines running while meeting established specifications. The role emphasizes safety, quality, and housekeeping as core priorities on the shift.

You will ensure machine safety, document bottle quality requirements, sustain efficiencies, and perform basic preventive maintenance and color changes to support daily production targets.