Extrusion Operator Lead

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.

Compensation:

• Starting at $28.56 per hour

Available Shift:

• 7am-3pm (Monday-Friday)

TEXT TO APPLY NUMBER:

• (928-NOVOLEX)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Set up extrusion machine by inputting information into a computer console, set roll gaps to precise sizes, and ensures quality control is production grade.
• Monitor all extrusion machines to make sure that all working parts are in alignment.
• Troubleshoots all areas of the extrusion process
• Installs die shims
• Monitors and controls extrusion blends along with raw material usage.
• Regulates rate of extrusion to prevent metal rupture and adherence of metal to container walls.
• Record data, such as SAP Production, Digital Paperwork, Leader Standard Work, Visual Factory Charts, Cleaning Charts, First Piece Inspection.
• Coordinates with shift supervisor to assure proper manning is used and managed.
• Monitor and make necessary adjustment to sheet scanners including changing recipe, calibration and gauge factor.
• Ensures all sheet mil gauges are at standard specifications.
• Ensures that all safety rules are followed and enforced.
• Works with shift supervisor to investigate injury/quality incidents and helps to prepare reports. Submits findings and preventive measures.
• Drives overtime coverage as needed on other shifts.
• Drives Lean process to the floor level.
• Meets or exceeds standards in the department.
• Other duties may be assigned.

Qualifications:

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must possess a high school diploma or equivalent.
• Individual must be able to accurately input all formulas and recipes into the computer console.
• At least one year experience with extrusion machines is required, 3 years preferred.
• Thermoforming and/or maintenance background is helpful.

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.

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.

We offer constant opportunities for advancement. From skills development to advanced education programs, training and development programs and courses are available through My Learning. 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.

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