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Packaging Specialist

Novolex
  • Bridgeview, Illinois
  • $19.61 Per Hour
  • Full-time
1 day ago

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:

 

Do you have experience working in Manufacturing, Packing Products off Conveyor lines, Mechanical Aptitude, Working with Plastic molding???  If so, WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU!!!

 

Packer Compensation:

  • Starting rate $19.61 an hour - paid weekly

Packer available day and night shifts: 7:00am-7:00pm/7:00pm-7:00am

 

Summary: Safely and effectively assists the Thermoforming, and Safety Departments with the implementation, preparation, training and executing tasks requested by the machine operator.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Include the following:

 

  • Clear understanding of the importance to wear proper PPE such as Safety glasses. Vest, Safety toe, task required gloves, hairnets.
  • Assist with “On the line” training for packers
  • Review and understand training docs such as SPLs and SOPs
  • Thoroughly inspect packaging products and materials utilizing standard documentation.
  • Palletize boxes according to packaging configuration specifications.
  • Operate grinder pull roll speed dials and hoist controllers.
  • Load boxes accurately into the automation equipment such as Aagards.
  • Understand and demonstrate automation equipment alert systems
  • Follows all Company established rules and policies
  • Adheres to all Safety rules and regulations
  • Assist Operators during start ups and coordinating and executing daily tasks.
  • Ensures housekeeping in area(s) of responsibility is safe, clean, and tidy
  • Other duties may be assigned

 

Competencies: Approachability, problem solving, time management, interpersonal skills, oral communication, written communication, teamwork, judgement, motivations, planning, organizing, professionalism, quality, quantity, safety, adaptability, attendance, punctuality, dependability, initiative, innovatio

 

Education and/or Experience:

  • Previous experience in a fast paced manufacturing environment is highly preferred; Ability to work with others effectively as part of a team is essential.
  • Language Skills: English; Spanish helpful
  • Mathematical Skills: Basic
  • Computer Skills: Basic
  • Physical Demand: Standing, walking. May be required to stoop, kneel, bend, squat, twist, climb, push, pull, carry, reach or lift up to 50lbs routinely
  • Work Environment: Manufacturing environment, which is loud, humid, extreme heat (depending on season) dusty, fumes
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

myHRservices@novolex.com

.

 

Formerly Pactiv Evergreen

Numbers & Facts

LocationBridgeview, Illinois
Job TypeFull-time
IndustryConsumer Packaged Goods Manufacturing
Company Size500 to 999 employees
Year Founded2004
Websitehttp://novolex.com/

About Company

Novolex™ is a family of North American based historic packaging brands that includes Hilex Poly®; Fortune Plastics®; Duro Bag®; Bagcraft® Packaging; De Luxe® Packaging; General Packaging Products; International Converter; Novolex™ Custom Film & Bag (formerly AccuTech®, Direct Plastics® and Hilex Poly® Garland) and Heritage Bag®.

The Novolex™ name is based on the latin “NOVO” for new and “LEX” a tip of the hat to Hilex Poly®, the first brand to become part of the family. The blue and red of our logo represents the integration of both paper and plastic into our sustainability platform with red and blue being the legacy corporate colors of Hilex Poly® and Duro Bag® respectively.

Novolex’s™ values are based in the traditions of all of our brands and present you with the industry’s foremost in packaging choice and sustainability. Novolex’s™ mission is to continue the tradition of leadership established by our brands, and to create new value and synergies by providing you with an industry-leading packaging expert that covers the full spectrum of your operations.

Novolex™ directly employs more than 6,000 people at 43 facilities in the United States as well as 3 in Canada and one in Mexico. From our Hilex Poly® brand North Vernon, IN plastic retail bag manufacturing and bag and film recycling facilities, to our BagCraft® brand food packaging facility in the City of Commerce, CA or our Duro Bag® brand paper bag manufacturing hub in Richwood, KY our team is here to support you with innovative, high quality, and sustainable packaging choices.

Skills

  • Automationunmatched
  • Community Supportunmatched
  • Computer Skillsunmatched
  • Documentation Standardsunmatched
  • English Languageunmatched
  • Establish Prioritiesunmatched
  • Food Deliveryunmatched
  • Food Productionunmatched
  • Food and Beverage Industryunmatched
  • Grindingunmatched
  • Housekeeping/Cleaningunmatched
  • Learning Management System (LMS)unmatched
  • Lift/Move 50 Poundsunmatched
  • Manufacturingunmatched
  • Mathematicsunmatched
  • Molding Processesunmatched
  • Order Picking/Packingunmatched
  • Pallet Jackunmatched
  • Policy Developmentunmatched
  • Regulationsunmatched
  • Resinunmatched
  • Restaurantunmatched
  • Retailunmatched
  • Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)unmatched
  • Startupunmatched
  • Stock Keeping Unit (SKU)unmatched
  • Sustainabilityunmatched
  • Team Playerunmatched
  • Training/Teachingunmatched
  • Training/Teaching Curriculumunmatched
  • Tuition Reimbursementunmatched

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