Process Technician

Company Overview

Why Choose Us?

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.

Job Description

Shifts - Nights (4:50pm - 5:45am) and one flex shift

 

Position Summary: The Process Technician is the technical leader on shift for the assigned work team.

• Core Competencies:
• Integrity/Dependability
• Building Trust
• Customer Focus
• Positive Outlook

Key Job Accountabilities:

• New Equipment Integration
• Coordinates and facilitates the addition of new equipment or products into work team activities to ensure that teams are comfortable utilizing the equipment/product
• Motivation and Engagement
• Establishes a productive working environment that develops, supports, and motivates employees
• Re-establish Flow
• Prioritizes and allocates team resources, pulls defined help chains, and returns the team to the defined standard
• Costing
• Provides accurate and timely cost data for the new products and existing products that require changes. Maintains all estimating assumptions based on material and production line constraints.
• Continuous Improvement Activities
• Executes the Plan, Do, Check, Act process to assist in the continual improvement of results achieved through various tools, such as A3, Storyboards, War Room and SAPQ1/Q3
• Project Coordination
• Coordinates and facilitates assigned projects into work team activities.

Knowledge/Requirements:

• Good communication skills
• Must be a Self-starter
• Set up experience, 2 years preferred
• Have Thermoforming tooling knowledge
• Has operated thermoforming or extrusion equipment, Operator 4 or 5 old system, Operator 2 or 3 new system
• Scheduling knowledge
• Good Excel and project knowledge.

Skills and Abilities:

• Leadership
• Communication
• Problem Solving
• Decision Quality
• Technical Credibility

 

Educational Requirements:  Associates Degree or Equivalent Experience

Experience Requirements: Operating Machinery, Analyzing, and Solving Problems

 

Company Benefits

What You'll Get From Us

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 [email protected].

 

Formerly Pactiv Evergreen