Raw Materials Coordinator

Company Overview Why Choose Us?

Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries including food service, 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.

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.

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Raw Materials Coordinator|Covington, Georgia|
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Compensation

• Competitive starting pay range of $27.44-$32.62 per hour, paid weekly - Based on Experience

Available Shift

• 1st Shift -
• 12 hours
• 07:00 AM - 7:00 PM
• 2/2/3 schedule

This position is for Novolex

Summary:

This position reports to the Process Engineer. The resin technician tracks raw material inventories, orders, and receives materials, schedules deliveries to support plant production usage, and adjusts the plan as needed.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

Daily Inventory
Verification and Planning

• Check inventories
• Update resin tracker
• Communicate inventory levels with plant leadership team
• Update RPP % target for extrusion
• Review resin consumption for the previous day – investigate potential areas of concern
• Communicate with SUM to ensure correct blend of input materials
  • RPP percentages to target
  • Talc usage rate to line condition
  • Masterbatch rate to line condition
• Review production schedule and verify orders and delivery schedules for:
  • Resin
  • Blowing agents
  • Film
• Make changes to schedule if necessary
• Perform other duties as assigned

Weekly
Inventory
Verification and Planning

• Review strategic raw materials plan with Extrusion Unit Manager and update resin tracker
• Receive Bills of Lading are completed correctly and filed
• Perform full raw materials and non-poly inventory.
  • Any significant adjustments investigated and understood. Impact on supply analyzed where necessary.

Monthly Planning

• Plant scheduler and Resin Technician review demand for upcoming months. Coordinating with resin procurement, orders are adjusted based on any changes to the strategic plan.
• Extrusion Manager and Resin Technician review demand for the upcoming month. Tools to use include MD04 and current raw materials on order. Output of this meeting is changes to existing raw materials orders (timing/cancellation/additions)

General

Support the safety program by performing work safely, reporting unsafe acts/conditions, following all health and safety rules, procedures, and instructions, reporting all injuries immediately to the Manager/Supervisor, and wearing appropriate personal protective equipment in designated areas.

Participate in and support mock recalls, internal audits, and NSF/BRC audits. Maintain standards for documentation, housekeeping, and GMPs.

Skills:

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ab…