Slitter Rover (1st Shift)

Tekni-Plex, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Coverage

Vision Coverage

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Daily Pay

Job summary

TekniPlex is seeking a Slitter Helper to support the Slitter Operator in maintaining production to meet customer specifications. You will assist with threading, loading, and setting up knives, ensuring quality and safety throughout each shift.

The role requires standing most of the shift, ability to lift 50 lbs, and prior manufacturing experience. Day shift hours are 6:45am to 3:00pm at our Kentucky facility with TekniPlex Benefits on offer.

Qualifications

• Must be able to read/write/speak English.
• High School Diploma required.
• 2 years of manufacturing experience preferred.
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.

Responsibilities

• Load a machine payoff using an overhead hoist and thread material through the machine.
• Inspect slit dimensions and ensure quality of strips.
• Secure slit strips on cores and adjust tension and guides.
• Communicate scrap, mechanical or quality issues promptly.
• Maintain productivity and quality while meeting scrap targets.
• Complete required paperwork daily.

Skills

Manufacturing experience

English proficiency

Communication

Physical stamina

Forklift experience

Education

High school diploma

Job description

Imagine: A Career With Purpose and Possibility

Picture this: You are part of a global team of problem-solvers whose innovations in materials science can make life better. Every day, you help turn ideas into impact using science, technology, and creativity to tackle real-world challenges. You’re part of a company whose work helps improve patient outcomes in healthcare and protects essential consumer goods that people around the world rely on every day.

At TekniPlex, you’ll join more than 8,000 colleagues across 12 countries, all united by one purpose: creating safer, smarter solutions that touch daily life. Through our two divisions, TekniPlex Healthcare and TekniPlex Consumer Products, you’ll help shape industries that matter: healthcare, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, beauty, and personal care.

Here, your ideas count and your work matters. You’ll be encouraged to think boldly, collaborate across cultures, and keep growing every step of the way. You will help protect the integrity of essential products, support patient safety and comfort, and contribute to innovations that make everyday life better, all while building a career that makes an impact.

Because at TekniPlex, you don’t just deliver products – you help shape what’s next.

JOB SUMMARY

The Slitter Helper is responsible for assisting the Slitter Operator maintain production to produce materials to the specifications from the customer.

Shift hours: 6:45am - 3:00pm

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Effectively communicate with previous shift on priorities
• Comply with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).
• Load a machine payoff using an overhead hoist and thread the material through the machine initially by hand and then jogging it through the cutting press.
• Selects, cleans, install spacers and knives on shafts.
• Threads sheeting through slitter and verifies dimension of slit specifications.
• Secures slit strips on cores, adjusts guides and roller tension, thread edge trim to scrap winder and start machine.
• Observes slitting and rewinding operation and examines cut strips for flatness, wrinkles and other defects.
• Will observe the machine and is required to communicate scrap, mechanical or quality issues timely.
• Responsible for arranging stacking rolls according to packaging specification.
• Responsible for meeting standards relating to productivity, quality and scrap daily.
• Filling out and submitting required paperwork daily.
• Other duties as assigned by the Manager/Supervisor.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Comfortable standing for entire shift
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs. repetitively
• Previous manufacturing experience preferred
• Previous forklift experience is preferred
• 2 years of experience in manufacturing facility is preferred
• Excellent communication skills for this hands-on role
• Must be able to read/write/speak English
• Minimum of a High School Diploma
• Knowledge of equipment capability
• Knowledge of equipment functions and controls
• Knowledge of reporting requirements

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job,

• Frequently working with sharp tools, such as knives and ledgers.
• Frequently lift, carry, pull, or pull materials up to 50 lbs.
• Frequently bend, stoop, kneel, squat, crouch, reach, and twist with hands and arms
• Frequently use hands to grasp, manipulate, and repetitively move.
• Occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, or crouch.

WORKENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job,

• Frequently exposed to humidity and hot conditions (non-climate-controlled facility)
• Regularly exposed to vibrations and mechanical parts.
• Occasionally exposed to dust, fumes, gases, and wetness.

Tekniplex commits to making reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities and qualified disabled veterans, unless such accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the conduct of its business.

Equal Opportunity Employer

This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.

TEKNI BENEFITS

TekniPlex provides a comprehensive and flexible benefits program that you can customize to fit your personal needs. Our programs offer you and your family health care coverage and financial security. You can take advantage of life insurance, disability coverage and voluntary benefits for extra financial protection and peace of mind. Plus, our work-life benefits provide support and assistance whenever you need it.

• Some of your benefits are paid in full by TekniPlex and some costs are shared between you and TekniPlex. Other benefits are made available to you at reasonable group rates.
• Medical Coverage
• Prescription Drug Coverage
• Vision Coverage
• Employee Assistance Program
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Basic Term Life/AD&D Insurance
• Voluntary Life/AD&D Insurance
• Short Term Disability (STD)
• Long Term Disability (LTD
• Voluntary Buy-Up LTD
• Hospital Indemnity
• Critical Illness
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Daily Pay
• Business Travel Insurance
• Legal Plan
• Identity Protection

Qualifications

Behaviors

Preferred

Loyal

: Shows firm and constant support to a cause

Team Player

: Works well as a member of a group

Dedicated

: Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity

Enthusiastic

: Shows intense and eager enjoyment and interest

Detail Oriented

: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well

Motivations

Preferred

Financial

: Inspired to perform well by monetary reimbursement

Goal Completion

: Inspired to perform well by the completion of tasks

Equal Opportunity Employer
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws.For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.