Production Operator

Your Job

Georgia Pacific is seeking Production Operators for their Janesville, WI facility. The Production Operator will support production by operating, monitoring, and optimizing extrusion equipment to ensure consistent product quality and meet or exceed production targets. This role is responsible for maintaining high standards of safety, quality, efficiency, machine up-time, and scrap reduction, while contributing to continuous improvement efforts within the plastics department at the lowest possible cost.

Operators work a 12-hour shifts on a 2-2-3 schedule.


Scheduled start times will be either 6am OR 6pm

Note: $2 hourly shift differential for night shift


Compensation in this role will be commensurate with experience.

Our Team

Georgia Pacific is a dynamic manufacturing company based in Janesville, WI. Our company is a leader in custom thermoformed rigid plastic food packaging solutions for bakery, deli, produce, confectionery, and other retail food products. We combine a broad in-stock product line with full-service custom design and engineering to solve industry challenges, emphasizing innovation, quality and customer-centric solutions from concept through production. Georgia Pacific invests in its people and culture, prioritizing safety, teamwork, integrity and growth. We offer competitive benefits such as medical/dental/vision insurance, 401k matching, tuition reimbursement, and more. Georgia Pacific is an exciting place for job seekers who want to build a career in manufacturing and product innovation.

Benefits Overview

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Educational assistance program
• Infertility support and Adoption/Surrogacy assistance
• Paid time off and Paid Holidays
• Mental Health Coverage and Support for you and your family
• 401k matching + Fixed Contribution Based on years of service.
• Short term and long-term disability
• Legal and Financial advice

What You Will Do

• Adjust machine components to regulate speeds, pressures, temperatures and amounts, dimensions and flow of materials or ingredients
• Set extruder operating parameters
• Inspect the quality and correct any defects in the finished product
• Operate controls to adjust machine functions, such as regulating air pressure or die gaps
• Review work orders, specifications or instructions to determine materials, ingredients, procedures, components, settings, and adjustments for extruding plastic sheet
• Examine, measure and weigh materials or products to verify conformance to standards, using measuring devices such as micrometers or scales
• Move materials, supplies, components and finished product
• Troubleshoot equipment and production issues

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience operating, troubleshooting, or maintaining industrial manufacturing equipment
• Experience working in a safety-focused industrial or manufacturing environment
• Experience reading gauges including a digital caliper and micrometer

What Will Put You Ahead

• Sheet extrusion experience for thermoforming applications
• Experience operating a sheet die
• Experience with the blending, crystallizing and drying process
• Experience working with GMP, food-safety and ISO procedures
• Experience working with thermoforming or injection molding equipment
• Bilingual in Spanish and English

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Hiring Philosophy

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Who We Are

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.


Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: