Assistant Machine Operator

Now hiring! Come work at a place to build your future and be an integral part of a fast-paced, safety-oriented, and growing industry! We are an ESSENTIAL employer that is ACTIVELY HIRING at our Granite City, IL facility! 

ProAmpac is a leading global flexible packaging company with comprehensive product offerings. Providing creative packaging solutions, industry-leading customer service and award-winning innovation to a diverse global marketplace. We are guided in our work by five core values that are the basis for our success: Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, Involvement and Impact. The safety and health of our team is our top priority. ProAmpac has taken great steps to provide all personal protective equipment and sanitizing supplies to create a safe and healthy work environment for you. 

ProAmpac is looking for you to join our team! 

What ProAmpac has to offer:  

• Quarterly bonuses: perfect attendance bonus and gainshare program 
• Premium pay built into your shift schedule 
• Paid Time Off (PTO) with 2 additional personal days 
• 11 paid company holidays 
• 401k with company match 
• Medical, Dental, Vision, and other supplemental offerings 
• Company-provided life insurance 
• Disability insurance 
• Tuition Reimbursement 
• Wellness program – living a healthy lifestyle can get you a discount on your health insurance premiums AND other incentives 

Essential Tasks/Duties

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made, upon request, to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Threads materials from parent roll through guides and rollers to cutters, gluer, printer, folding device, or electric sealer.
• Starts machine, observes operation, and adjusts machine to ensure uniform shearing, printing, folding, gluing, or sealing of continuous roll of material into finished bags.
• May insert shaft into core of parent roll and secure with steel collars, using hand tools, and mount roll onto machine, using hoist.
• Operates machine in proper manner, maintaining high production and a quality product, with a minimum of waste, while maintaining set goals of machine speeds
• Diagnoses problems on machines and corrects immediately, to keep smooth production flow.
• Performs daily maintenance on machine including: oiling machine, cleaning drum area of machine, re-taping, and scraping down.
• Ability to multi-task as well as work in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
• Adheres and maintains equipment to all GMP and AIB regulations at all times.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements  

• High School Diploma or GED
• Able to work 12hr rotating schedule 7AM-7PM
• Two years of work experience in a related industry
• Able to lift up to 50lbs

Key Competencies:

• Ethical Conduct
• Problem Solving/Analysis
• Communication Proficiency

  Work Environment:

Work primarily in a climate controlled indoor environment with minimal safety/health hazard potential. Hearing protection, safety shoes and vision protection required on the production floor at all times.

This role operates in a professional environment that requires some exposure to a manufacturing environment. Employee is rarely exposed to non-toxic/nuisance smells from chemicals, airborne dust, moving mechanical parts, high noise levels and hot/humid environmental conditions in the manufacturing area during extremely hot summer months.

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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. Employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands/fingers to type, hold, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
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