Palletizer

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

 

Palletizer

Kinston, NC

 

Compensation Includes

• Starting Pay Rate of $17.05/hour - paid weekly

Available Shifts

• 2nd: 4:00pm - 12:00am, Monday - Friday
• 3rd: 12:00am - 8:00am, Monday - Friday

Overview

The person who occupies this position is responsible for unloading cases from conveyors and stacking them onto pallets according to carton specifications.

 

Responsibilities 

• Retrieves packed cases from conveyors and stacks them onto pallets according to customer specifications
• Palletizer wraps top of loaded pallet to prevent higher boxes from falling when load is moved
• Pulls loaded skid with handtruck to area where skid is retrieved by forklift (approximately 70 ft)
• Constructs cardboard tops to cover boxes that do not have folding flaps

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED required
• Machines, Tools, Equipment, Software:
  • No experience needed (entry-level)
• Must be able to speak, read and write English
• Handtruck and tape (to construct box covers)
• Must be flexible: able to work other shifts, overtime and Saturdays when needed

Physical requirements and visual activities that are commonly associated with the performance of the functions of this job:

• Standing, walking, lifting (up to 50 lbs.), carrying (up to 50 lbs.), pushing, pulling, twisting (re-piling loads), kneeling, bending, reaching, talking, hearing, visual acuity (near and far)
• Requires lifting packed cases (weighing up to 50 lbs.) from the rollers (3 feet high), carrying them approximately 5 feet to pallet and stacking them onto correct pallet. Cases are stacked as high as 7 feet
• Job requires lifting empty pallets (approximately 50 lbs.) from stack of pallets and sliding them to end of conveyor approximately once very hour
• Requires physical ability to pull full pallet (1500 - 2000 lbs.) with handtruck. The distance of pulling is approximately 30 feet
• Inside Conditions, extremes of heat, humidity, noise (helpers are to wear ear plugs), vibration, hazards, dust

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