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Lead Operator Apprentice - Poly

Graphic Packaging International

Lead Operator Apprentice - Poly

Shelbyville, IL
Internship
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Lead Operator Apprentice – Poly :

    • Starting Wages Begin At $22.48/Hour With Regular Wage Progressions To $23.61/Hour
    • $1500 Retention Bonus for New Hires and Qualifying Rehires
    • $1/Hour Shift Differential for Night Shift
    • No Mandatory Overtime on Scheduled 48 Hour Work Weeks
    • Benefits Start on the 1st of The Month Following Your Start Date

    JOB SUMMARY:

    Sets up and maintains equipment used in the manufacturing of poly paper cups. Duties include housekeeping, trouble-shooting problems, making a quality product, completing start-up and shut down procedures, change-over of tooling, working in a productive manner and adhering to all safety guidelines. Understand and align business operations through execution of the role, exceeding customer expectations and aligning with GPI business, cultural, financial, and operational objectives.

    Here’s What You Will Be Doing:

    • Perform all duties in a safe and orderly manner.
    • Ensure equipment meets safety standards, monitoring throughout the shift.
    • Observe, mitigate and/or report unsafe acts or conditions.
    • Maintain continuous, safe operation of cup machines, producing quality product at efficient production levels.
    • Complete shut-down and start-up procedures.
    • Produce products consistent with established food safety, sanitation, and quality standards.
    • Set up, adjust, and repair equipment utilizing written standard operating procedures (SOP’s) and trouble cause correction (TCC’s) instructions.
    • Maintain 5S in work area. Maintain a clean machine to avoid malfunctions and hazards.
    • Perform prescribed quality checks. Trouble-shoot quality concerns.
    • Complete daily paperwork and computer production reports.
    • Once qualified, instruct and train others, including other lead operators and apprentices.
    • Communicate effectively with supervisor, group leader, peers, other employees, and oncoming shift.
    • Perform packer and material handler duties, as required; relieve for breaks and lunches; Assist in other areas, as needed.
    • Assist in other areas or perform other duties, as assigned.

    Required Skills:

    • Basic mechanical background and skill level to perform technical tasks:
    • Familiar with and able to use hand and power tools properly and safely
    • Able to take direction from others, and to follow verbal or written instructions.
    • Ability to perform the essential physical functions of the position, with or without accommodation.

    ADDITIONAL IMPORTANT INFORMATION – APPRENTICE:

    • Once a Lead Operator vacancy occurs, and after shift preferences awarded, the employee with the most time served as an Apprentice must take that vacancy. They will continue with the apprentice qualification timeline until qualified.
    • Apprentices may be scheduled to work other shifts as business conditions require.
    • Apprentice training may on a day shift 8-hour schedule Monday-Friday (7:00 A.M.–3:30 P.M.) for up to 30 days, if necessary. (Majority of training will occur on shift).

    Required Skills

    Required Experience


    At Graphic Packaging International (NYSE: GPK), we produce the box you may have poured your child's cereal from this morning, the microwaveable tray that heated your lunch, the paper cup that held your coffee throughout the day, and the carrier of those bottles of craft beer you may enjoy tonight! We're one of the largest manufacturers of paperboard and paper-based packaging for some of the world's most recognized brands of food, beverage, foodservice, household, personal care and pet care products. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we are a team of collaborative, innovative, passionate individuals who are committed to providing consumer packaging that makes a world of difference.

    With almost 18,000 employees working in more than 70 locations in North and South America, Europe and the Pacific Rim, we strive to be an environmentally responsible leader in our industry and in the communities where we operate. We are committed to workplace diversity and offer compensation and benefits programs that are among the industry's best to reward the talented people who make our company successful.

    If this sounds like something you would like to be a part of, we'd love to hear from you. Learn more about us at www.graphicpkg.com.

    Inspired Packaging. A World of Difference.


    Graphic Packaging is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All candidates will be evaluated on the basis of their qualifications for the job in question. We do not base our employment decision on an employee's or applicant's race, color, religion, age, gender or sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic identity, genetic information, disability, veteran/military status or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law. Click here to view the EEO is the Law Poster.

  • Industry
    Manufacturing