Novolex
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Company Overview
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.
Are you looking to further or even start your career in manfacturing? Pactiv Evergreen, now a part of Novolex, is hiring Packers for our Kalamazoo plant.
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ROLE: Inspects and packages product, rotates throughout production lines as directed by the Team Leader. Works independently (though informed by line technician as well as other IP’s) and assures the product that he/she is packing is free of defects and meets all standards that have been established by the Pactiv Evergreen Quality Department.
Shift: Days, 5:20am to 5:30pm, with 3 paid breaks
Shift: Nights, 5:20pm to 5:30am, with 3 paid breaks
Week 1: Monday(work), Tuesday (work), Wednesday (OFF), Thursday (OFF), Weekend (work)
Week 2: Monday (OFF), Tuesday (OFF), Wednesday (work), Thursday (work), Weekend (OFF)
PLEASE be sure to list your current/two most recent positions on the application, particularly if you are unable to upload an up-to-date resume.
Maintain safe, clean and friendly work environment• Visually inspect product for quality compliance• Ensure that customer requirements are met or exceeded• Make-up and pack boxes with respective product ensuring that product is not mixed• Meet daily production requirements• Properly identify each case that is packed• Assist with grinding of scrap materials as required• Assist with training responsibilities as required• Other duties as necessary
Technicial Competencies
Inspection:• Demonstrates attention to detail focusing on accuracy• Ability to accurately identify differences between major and minor defects
Communication/Teamwork:• Ability to communicate effectively and work closely and productively as part of a cross-functional team• Ability to create and/or exhibit an atmosphere of openness, honesty, trust and teamwork
Safety:• Demonstrates ability to understand and actively participate in all company safety programs, policies and procedures• Demonstrates understanding and knowledge of safe equipment operations
Quality/Housekeeping:• Ability to develop and maintain processes that are ISO compliant• Ability to be a self starter and work independently• Can demonstrate ability to maintain work area in clean, safe order• Demonstrates ability to sort out-of-spec product for regrind
Product Knowledge: Demonstrates knowledge of FK products and materials and can differentiate between them
Training: Demonstrates ability to ensure trainees follow established procedures in absence of trainer
High school diploma or equivalent experience in lieu of education• Must be able to perform essential functions with or without reasonable accommodations and without posing a threat to the health and safety of fellow employees• Ability to read and understand written specifications, safety issues and interpretation of diagrams for proper packaging
ADA – Essential Functions: Must be able to-• Work a 8 or12-hour shift, standing and walking for extended periods• Climb• Heed safety warnings, devices and alarms.• Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing• Lift, push, pull, grasp, and carry products weighing up to 50 lbs.• Possess an adequate ability to do problem solving and establish cause and effect relationships in an office and/or manufacturing environment
Company 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
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