Packaging Operator

ISP Chemicals LLC; Calvert City (KY); On-site; USD 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

ISP Chemicals LLC is looking for a Packaging Operator to join their team in Calvert City, Kentucky. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in ensuring safe and compliant packaging of liquid and powder products while adhering to the highest quality expectations.

Responsibilities include overseeing packaging operations, complying with safety regulations, and performing routine maintenance on packaging equipment. A High School diploma is required, along with mechanical aptitude and teamwork skills. Preference will be given to candidates with a Chemical Operator certificate or relevant experience.

Qualifications

• Must be capable of wearing appropriate personal protective equipment (e.g., hard hat, goggles).
• Must be able to evacuate in emergencies.
• Physical requirements include lifting containers up to 550 lb.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safe and compliant packaging of products.
• Comply with plant safety rules and report incidents.
• Perform routine material handling and maintain housekeeping standards.

Skills

Effective team member

Basic computer competencies

High level of mechanical aptitude

Education

High School Degree or equivalent

Chemical Operator certificate or degree

Job description

ISP Chemicals LLC Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious? Are you always solving? Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Packaging Operator to join our Ashland LLC, Specialty ingredients business at our Calvert City, Kentucky location. This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the manufacturing function. This position will report to the Operations Manager.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for ensuring safe and environmentally compliant packaging of liquid and powder products manufactured on-site
• All product packaging and drumming operations are to be performed to meet or exceed the quality expectations of our customers
• Comply with all plant safety rules and report all incidents, issues and events to immediate supervision for corrective action
• Work with the Production First Line Leaders and other plant support personnel to productively package liquid and powder products for our customers
• Perform product packaging and drumming activities for all liquid and powder products ensuring that customer specifications are met or exceeded
• Perform waste handling duties (i.e., filling, labeling, and storing) associated with waste materials
• Prepare all containers for staging and labeling
• Take samples or re-samples of powder and liquids as required to ensure product quality
• Stage empty containers
• Regularly clean up powder rooms, drumming lines and warehouse areas and maintain satisfactory housekeeping standards at all times
• Prepare all drumming equipment for maintenance as may be required
• Attend all departmental safety, health and environmental (SHE) meetings and actively support & participate in safety and spill prevention
• Actively participate in all Process Improvement initiatives
• Comply with all Ashland and Calvert City plant policies, procedures & practices applicable to the Production Department
• Participate in various company and regulatory training designed to improve plant processes and/or increase unit production
• Participate in Safety and Environmental initiatives that will contribute to compliance of State/Federal regulations and improve existing Company programs
• Perform routine material handling
• Perform tank inspections, as required
• Perform any other related duties as assigned

Qualifications

• High School Degree or equivalent required
• High level of mechanical aptitude
• Effective team member, communicator
• Basic computer competencies
• Willing and able to work rotating shift, holidays, and overtime as may be required
• Must be capable of wearing and properly utilizing appropriate personal protective equipment: hard hat, goggles, safety glasses, respirators, ear plugs, steel‑toed shoes, and other equipment as required by the work
• Must be capable of evacuating the manufacturing process areas in a timely manner should an emergency arise
• Physical requirements include walking, bending, reaching, climbing, maneuvering pallets, filling, moving, and sealing containers up to 550 lb, climbing on/off, operating a powered industrial truck, and manual handling of 550 lb containers
• Preferred: Chemical Operator certificate or degree
• Preferred: Experience in a manufacturing environment

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.