Production Machine Operator - 1st Shift

Great Northern Twin Cities, 8600 Wyoming Avenue North, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, United States of America

Posted Thursday, September 3, 2026 at 5:00 AM

Established in 1962, Great Northern is a local, privately owned paper-based packaging manufacturer with a long history of providing secure, stable, and meaningful positions. You will experience a collaborative team-first, safe, clean, enjoyable, and predictable workplace where team members support and care for one another.

Our team members produce sustainable and eco-friendly products that are supplied to national brands that impact people's day-to-day lives.

Great Northern is committed to making a difference in the lives of our team members, customers, and the communities in which we live and work. Many of our team members were referred by their friends and families who are already a part of the Great Northern team.

Under general supervision and following established procedures, the Machine Operator I is responsible for performing repetitive assembly operations of a short to medium cycle duration on a variety of products, subassemblies or components that require some adjusting, fitting or aligning. This position will function as a general operator, utilizing Level One handfed, semi-automatic machines with a minimal amount of automation. The scope of machine operations (Level One) for this position includes, but is not limited to, equipment feeders/robots, slitter, slotter, band saw, hand tape, hand glue, and baler/shredder.

This position will perform physical and manual labor of a general character and simple nature requiring no previous experience and will assist Machine Operators II and III on any other equipment.

All job responsibilities are to be performed in strict adherence with the Company’s Mission/Values Statement and in accordance with established standards for external customers as well as internal customers .

• $24.00/hour - $26.00/hour depending on experience and qualifications
• 1st Shift: Monday – Friday from 5:00am - 1:30pm

• Competitive 401K match and a historically generous profit-sharing retirement savings contribution
• Paid time off accrued during your first year of employment
• Medical plan options are available to provide flexibility in choosing the one that best suits your individual and family needs
• Clean, comfortable breakroom
• Opportunities to advance your career and compensation level
• Flexible overtime opportunities when available and/or needed
• Annual merit increases as well as market benchmarking to ensure competitive wages

• Reads job specifications to determine machine adjustments and material requirements.
• Retrieval and staging of ink, tooling, and material while ensuring everything matches production specifications.
• Responsible for the output and condition of Level One machines.
• Effectively set-up, run, and trouble shoot Level One machines.
• Follows safe operating procedures and all safety rules and guidelines as listed on work center safety documentation. (i.e. JSA, PPE, LOTO/MS)
• Selects, installs, sets, positions and aligns stops, guides, rolls, and blades as indicated by scale, rule or template of order specifications.
• Adjusts tension controls according to size, thickness and number of corrugated sheets.
• Stacks and feeds corrugated material.
• Observes machine operation to detect product defects or machine malfunctions.
• Adjusts settings and controls on Level One machines as required to ensure product meets all specifications, quality standards and ISO procedures.
• Measures product dimensions to determine accuracy of machine operation and performs quality inspection of finished product.li>
  
  Removes cut pieces and scrap from product, die or bed of machine.
• Counts, stacks, strips, marks, bands and transports finished product to the proper area as directed.
• Completes work orders and prints the correct load tag (Work in Progress or Finished Goods)…