Graham Packaging Company is looking for a Maintenance Technician based in Bradford, PA. This opening is for NIGHT SHIFT, which operates during the hours of 6:54pm to 7am on a rotating schedule. Maintenance Technicians are responsible for installation and repair of equipment in the plant. The Maintenance Technician will perform preventative and reactive maintenance on all production equipment and building. Individual must be mechanically inclined.
Graham Packaging Company is looking for a Machine Operator based in Casa Grande, AZ. This position is a night shift role following the hours of 6:48pm to 7:30am, following a 2,2,3 schedule.
The Operator is responsible for operating a given number of plastic blow molding machines (including in-line equipment), and makes necessary adjustments or minor repairs to ensure production of containers is made in a safe, efficient and high quality manner. The primary duties of an Operator include:
- Understands, follows and enforces all established safety, health, quality GMP and Company policies, procedures and recognized practices.
- Understands, follows and enforces all established policies, procedures and recognized practices.
- Participate in continuous quality improvement projects and other related activities as assigned
- Operate a group of plastic blow molding machines and auxiliary equipment producing a container in a safe and high quality method.
- Participate in continuous quality improvement projects and other related activities as assigned.
- Perform and/or assists in mold, insert and color changes on the line.
- Perform basic processing of injection and/or blow molding machines to improve machine efficiency and reduce scrap.
- Perform tasks and responsibilities of any Utility position during slow periods and/or as needed.
- Monitor HDPE/PET resin (if applicable), dryer, material handling and color systems for appropriate processing conditions.
- Make frequent on time quality checks on products being produced from established quality standards.
- Assist other Operators and maintenance personnel on mechanical repairs.
- Perform assigned preventative maintenance work.
- Maintain work area to acceptable safety and housekeeping standards.
- Complete and file all required documentation in an orderly and timely manner.
- Communicate with the Production Shift Supervisor to coordinate production line support staff in accomplishing the lines’ objectives.
- Verify material usage per standards
- Perform minor troubleshooting and programming on the line. Notify leads and supervisors of any major problems or questions.
- Operate equipment to minimize the generation and maximize the consumption of regrind, purge and scrap within customer specifications where applicable.
- Properly identify regrind and chunk produced.
- Communicate processing information to designated personnel on incoming shift. Assist other Operators as needed.
- Assist in the training of new Operators.
- Limited travel may be required
Graham Packaging Company is looking for a Forklift Operator based in York, PA (Farmbrook Plant). This position is for 3rd shift, which works a schedule of 11pm to 7am, Monday-Friday.
Forklift Operators perform a combination of product handling and lift truck operating duties to stack, transport, and store work-in-process and finished goods. Supplies production lines with efficient flow of materials – knockdowns and dividers - and moves finished goods to warehouse. Complete line driver reports accurately and legible showing locations and quantities of raw materials used as well as quantities and locations where finished goods were stored. Assist production line employees by relieving them in breaks and lunchtime periods. The primary duties of a Forklift Operator include:
- Follow all established safety, health, quality GMP and Company policies, procedures and recognized practices.
- Perform a safety lift truck inspection and battery check and report any equipment malfunctioning or damage to the Warehouse Manager or Shift Supervisor. Change lift truck batteries and add water when necessary; keep record of time batteries are changed. Fill out lift truck status report.
- Participate in continuous quality improvement projects and other related activities as assigned.
- Review daily production schedule with Shift Supervisor, brings materials to the production lines when needed to execute schedule and notify supervisor of any materials running low. Removes finished goods from production lines, back to assigned warehouse locations.
- Provide accurate information of unloaded materials as well as materials used or produced to warehouse personnel.
- Remove, store, and unitize production scrap bales and informs warehouse personnel when there is enough for a full load. Removes excess corrugated from mezzanine and empties baler as required. Takes full bales of cardboard scrap from baler to assigned location in the warehouse.
- Maintain accurate records of materials being used and produced, and reports them in appropriate paperwork, back to warehouse personnel.
- Remove finished goods and other materials in hold to assigned location. Stores finished goods stacked neatly and in proper height. Verifies that all finished goods removed from the production area must have a product code tag.
- Participate in physical inventory taking.
- Keep each production line supplied with the proper knock down cases, dividers, pallets and when each pallet is full take that pallet to the warehouse for loading on the trailer; and takes unused cases and dividers back to the warehouse to the proper location.
- On limited production, may assist in stock-handler duties or load trailers as needed.
- Bring up hot glue cases to the mezzanine, brings color concentrate to the lines, replaces cold glue tote, removes excess cases from production floor, brings slip sheets to production floor, loads storage racks with gaylords, set up rework, set up units of product on hold for Q.C., relieves stock handlers, loads and unloads corrugated trailers, identifies good corrugated from the bad and isolates it.
- Follow established forklift procedures and complete required safety and maintenance checklists
- Follow established procedures for damaged finished goods and raw materials and report them on line driver report.
- Communicate with supervisor regarding shift totals and machine totals reports and with other lift truck operators regarding any changes or problems that arise, including damaged materials, damaged skids, or low inventories.
- Complete written documentation as required.
- Assist in relieving downstream teammates for breaks and lunches.
- Use forklift to move pallets of finished product to stretch wrap machines to stretch wrap them and to staging area after wrapping, or to specify warehouse location. Completes finished goods report or worksheet.
- Maintain supplies of corrugated and other packaging supplies at each machine.
- Visually inspect all completed pallets of product for quality and conformity to the packaging instructions to ensure quality at the source.
- Limited travel may be required.
Graham Packaging Company is looking for an Industrial Maintenance Electrician based in West Hazleton, PA. This is a Night Shift position, operating from 6:30pm-7am on a 2/2/3 schedule (working every other weekend).
- Pay starting up to $37 per hour based on experience.
- Additional $0.50 shift differential for Night shifts.
- Benefits start on Day One: Medical, Dental, Vision, and 401K with match!
Maintenance Electricians are responsible for troubleshooting, maintenance and repair of systems using electrical, mechanical and processing skills. The Maintenance Electrician will perform preventative and reactive maintenance on all production equipment and building. The primary duties of a Maintenance Electrician include:
- Understands, follows and enforces all established safety, health, quality GMP and Company policies, procedures and recognized practices.
- Understands, follows and enforces all established policies, procedures and recognized practices.
- Focus on producing quality product by monitoring quality levels and adjust the manufacturing processes to ensure product integrity.
- Reads and interprets drawings, blueprints, schematics and electrical code specifications to determine layout of industrial electrical equipment installations.
- Installs, examines, replaces or repairs electrical wiring, receptacles, switch boxes, conduits, feeders, fibre-optic and coaxial cable assemblies, lighting fixtures and/or other electrical components.
- Tests electrical and electronic equipment and components for continuity, current, voltage and resistance.
- Maintains, repairs, installs and tests switchgear, transformers, switchboard meters, regulators and reactors.
- Maintains, repairs, tests and installs electrical motors, generators, alternators, industrial storage batteries and hydraulic and pneumatic electrical control systems.
- Troubleshoots, maintains and repairs industrial, electrical and electronic control systems and other related devices.
- Conducts preventive maintenance programs and keeps accurate maintenance records.
- May install, maintain and calibrate industrial instrumentation and related devices as required.
- Assist and train production employees in proper operation and maintenance of machinery.
- Limited travel may be required.
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Quality Managers are responsible for the administration and management of all aspects of the plant’s quality program for all containers working through the plant quality, production, and logistics personnel. The responsibility includes management of internal / external relationships relative to quality (including supplier, customer, and regulatory compliance), management of internal quality control systems, process critical control points, and quality performance improvement and awareness. As a member of the Plant’s management team the Quality Assurance Manager also has shared responsibility for overall Plant operations, especially safety and efficiency.
Graham Packaging Company is looking for a Machine Operator based in Port Allen, La. This position is a third shift opportunity.
The Operator is responsible for operating a given number of plastic blow molding machines (including in-line equipment), and makes necessary adjustments or minor repairs to ensure production of containers is made in a safe, efficient and high quality manner. The primary duties of an Operator include:
- Understands, follows and enforces all established safety, health, quality GMP and Company policies, procedures and recognized practices.
- Understands, follows and enforces all established policies, procedures and recognized practices.
- Participate in continuous quality improvement projects and other related activities as assigned
- Operate a group of plastic blow molding machines and auxiliary equipment producing a container in a safe and high quality method.
- Participate in continuous quality improvement projects and other related activities as assigned.
- Perform and/or assists in mold, insert and color changes on the line.
- Perform basic processing of injection and/or blow molding machines to improve machine efficiency and reduce scrap.
- Perform tasks and responsibilities of any Utility position during slow periods and/or as needed.
- Monitor HDPE/PET resin (if applicable), dryer, material handling and color systems for appropriate processing conditions.
- Make frequent on time quality checks on products being produced from established quality standards.
- Assist other Operators and maintenance personnel on mechanical repairs.
- Perform assigned preventative maintenance work.
- Maintain work area to acceptable safety and housekeeping standards.
- Complete and file all required documentation in an orderly and timely manner.
- Communicate with the Production Shift Supervisor to coordinate production line support staff in accomplishing the lines’ objectives.
- Verify material usage per standards
- Perform minor troubleshooting and programming on the line. Notify leads and supervisors of any major problems or questions.
- Operate equipment to minimize the generation and maximize the consumption of regrind, purge and scrap within customer specifications where applicable.
- Properly identify regrind and chunk produced.
- Communicate processing information to designated personnel on incoming shift. Assist other Operators as needed.
- Assist in the training of new Operators.
- Limited travel may be required
Graham Packaging Company is looking for a Maintenance Technician based in York, PA (Emigsville Plant). This opening is for a twelve hour position, which operates during the hours of 7pm-7am.
Maintenance Technicians are responsible for installation and repair of equipment in the plant. The Maintenance Technician will perform preventative and reactive maintenance on all production equipment and building.
Graham Packaging Company is looking for a Maintenance Technician II based in Hammond, LA. This opening is for 1st shift, which operates during the hours of 7am-3pm.
Maintenance Technicians are responsible for installation and repair of equipment in the plant. The Maintenance Technician will perform preventative and reactive maintenance on all production equipment and building.
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Graham Packaging Company is seeking a Trade Compliance Analyst Contractor to support the customs compliance efforts of 40+ locations packaging business. Duration of the contract is approximately 1 year and the position is remote.
The Graham Trade Compliance Analyst will engage in maintaining compliance procedures for import and export regimes in U.S.; organization of recordkeeping and classification database, randomly conducting internal audits to ensure compliance with U.S. and applicable global regulations; and completing any other activity required to progress the trade compliance function.
As Director (Head) of Compensation and People Technology, you will oversee and optimize our organization's compensation strategy and HR technology on a global scale. This role will play a crucial part in designing competitive compensation programs, leveraging advanced technology solutions, and ensuring our compensation strategy and our HR technology platforms are aligned to support our business objectives and talent management initiatives. This is a hands-on role that will have direct oversight for the Graham’s global compensation and HR systems supporting over 5,000 colleagues domestic and international. You will lead a small team of professionals and manage external partners
Graham Packaging Company is looking for a Maintenance Technician I for our injection department based in Rockwall, Texas. This opening is for night shift, which operates during the hours of 6:54 PM - 7AM, on a 3-2-2 rotation.
Maintenance Technicians are responsible for installation and repair of equipment in the injection department. The Maintenance Technician will perform preventative and reactive maintenance on all injection production equipment and building. The primary duties of a Maintenance Technician include:
- Understands, follows and enforces all established safety, health, quality GMP and Company policies, procedures and recognized practices.
- Understands, follows and enforces all established policies, procedures and recognized practices.
- Focus on producing quality product by monitoring quality levels and adjust the manufacturing processes to ensure product integrity.
- Maintain controls for assuring successful plant performance to budgeted goals.
- Perform highly diversified duties to install and maintain injection production machines and the plant facility’s equipment.
- Diagnose problems, replace or repair parts, test and make adjustments.
- Provide emergency/unscheduled repairs of production equipment during operation and perform scheduled maintenance repairs of production equipment during machine service.
- Perform regular preventive maintenance on machines, equipment and plant facilities.
- Perform mechanic skills including, but not limited to, mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, troubleshooting and repair of production machines.
- Read and interpret equipment manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and service.
- Perform simple machinist skills.
- Use a variety of hand and power tools, electric meters and material handling equipment in performing duties.
- Detect faulty operations, defective material and report those and any unusual situations to proper supervision.
- Assist and train production employees in proper operation and maintenance of machinery
- Limited travel may be required
Graham Packaging Company is looking for a(n) Quality Inspector based in Rockwall, TX. This opening is for Nights 12 hour, which operates during the hours of 6:54 PM through 7 AM on a 3,2,2,3 schedule.
The Quality Inspector assures quality of bottles and the final package prior to shipment to the customer. Train new personnel on the importance of quality and on various plant quality systems and issues. The Quality Inspector works closely with the Supervisor and production employees to achieve a quality product. The primary duties of a Quality Inspector include:
- Understands, follows and enforces all established safety, health, quality GMP and Company policies, procedures and recognized practices.
- Understands, follows and enforces all established policies, procedures and recognized practices.
- Participate in continuous quality improvement projects and other related activities as assigned.
- Compare product on each line with the production schedule. Informs Supervisor if items differ and takes appropriate action.
- Visual checks of bottles and box glue patterns on a regular basis for final packaging audits.
- Report all rejected defects to PMTs and Supervisor. Follow through until defect is corrected.
- Follow established procedures for defective products and gives all information to the Supervisor when product is put on “Hold”.
- Report completed rework of defective products data according to established procedures.
- May assist in training as assigned.
- Assist the Supervisor as required.
- Perform specified checks in accordance to Plant’s inspection plan.
- Verify correct operation of in-line inspection devices, i.e. - leak testers, vision systems, metal detectors and other appropriate automated inspection equipment.
- Complete all reports and forms for product and process documentation.
- Enter required data to plant’s Statistical Process Charts (SPC) database.
- Complete written documentation as required.
- Assist in break relieves and helps out in production area when needed.
- Keep Quality Assurance inspection areas clean.
- Communicate about quality with other shifts and departments verbally and through written documents according to established procedures.
- Limited travel may be required.
The Company
Graham Packaging Company is a global leader in the design, manufacture and sale of value added, custom blow-moulded plastic containers used for packaging branded food and beverages, personal care and household products, chemicals and lubricants. With annual sales of over $2 billion and over 80 manufacturing plants around the world, the company is a clear market leader in nearly every market segment in which they operate.
The Role
The Plant Controller will report directly to the Regional Controller and will have responsibilities for the XXXX plant location specifically:
- Responsible for the monthly closing process, analytical review of plant financial statements as well as forecasting and budgeting at the plant level
- Review and analyze data to identify actual plant manufacturing results versus established objectives
- Provide support to develop and track additional cost savings opportunities and monitor progress of current initiatives
- Collaborate with senior level business unit professionals to provide insightful, data-driven analysis and support
- Other responsibilities as needed
This role is segmented into 3 main themes – Insight, Control and Planning & Reporting.
Insight
- Identify key performance metrics that impact conversion costs and work with operations on reduction opportunities
- Analyze conversion costs and productivity of the plant to drive operational improvement in focused areas; fully support A3 process and initiatives; drive A3 reporting requirements within the plant
- Provide financial leadership for capital management, including working with the manufacturing organization to prepare financial analysis related to cost savings & maintenance projects (“AFEs”)
- Drive team to utilize forecast data to drive actions in the plant with flexibility in spending, manning and overall structure
- Key participant in other plant lead team support initiatives and other plant functions such as safety, quality, etc.
- Evaluate and analyze plant profitability at a SKU or mold level
- Educate and train staff on plant financials, spend tracking, and operational levers.
- Assist Plant Managers when vacancies exist in other areas
Control
- External/Internal audit support
- Monitoring of standard costs for accuracy
- Assist in the management of the physical inventory audit process
- Implement and ensure compliance of internal financial & operational controls and procedures and SOX related requirements (Building Blocks)
- Inventory control focused on eliminating monthly physical count variances, reduction of slow moving/obsolete write offs; managing inventory on a FIFO basis; coordinating a successful annual tagged physical inventory
- Control and maintenance of fixed asset inventory to include annual fixed asset audit
Planning & Reporting
- Responsible for financial closing process for assigned plant manufacturing locations
- Scorekeeper of Daily Trackers for labor and variable spend; ensure team has the tools and training to track their spend on a daily basis to optimize performance
- Work with Plant lead team to develop annual plant operating budget and management presentation, monthly forecast updates and full year forecasts
- Analysis of monthly operating variances with explanations to plant team and executive leadership
- Provide day to day financial and operational support
- Perform manufacturing variance analysis
- Responsible for developing plant standard costing
- Review and approve product standard costs reasonableness and correlation to plant operations
- Assist management with financial analysis or special projects
Graham Packaging Company is looking for a(n) Maintenance Technician I based in Hammond, LA. This opening is for 1st shift, which is scheduled from 7AM-3PM on Monday - Friday.
Maintenance Technicians are responsible for installation and repair of equipment in the plant. The Maintenance Technician will perform preventative and reactive maintenance on all production equipment and building. The primary duties of a Maintenance Technician include:
- Understands, follows and enforces all established safety, health, quality GMP and Company policies, procedures and recognized practices.
- Understands, follows and enforces all established policies, procedures and recognized practices.
- Focus on producing quality product by monitoring quality levels and adjust the manufacturing processes to ensure product integrity.
- Maintain controls for assuring successful plant performance to budgeted goals.
- Perform highly diversified duties to install and maintain production machines and the plant facility’s equipment.
- Diagnose problems, replace or repair parts, test and make adjustments.
- Provide emergency/unscheduled repairs of production equipment during operation and perform scheduled maintenance repairs of production equipment during machine service.
- Perform regular preventive maintenance on machines, equipment and plant facilities.
- Perform mechanic skills including, but not limited to, mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, troubleshooting and repair of production machines.
- Read and interpret equipment manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and service.
- Perform simple machinist skills.
- Use a variety of hand and power tools, electric meters and material handling equipment in performing duties.
- Detect faulty operations, defective material and report those and any unusual situations to proper supervision.
- Assist and train production employees in proper operation and maintenance of machinery
- Limited travel may be required
Graham Packaging Company is looking for a Maintenance Manager based in Selah WA. This opening is for 2nd Shift, which operates during the hours of 2:00 pm-10:30 pm, Monday-Friday.
Pay: Starting at $27.93/hr
Additional $0.20 shift differential.
Weekly Pay and Benefits Effective Day One!
Maintenance Technicians are responsible for installation and repair of equipment in the plant. The Maintenance Technician will perform preventative and reactive maintenance on all production equipment and building. The primary duties of a Maintenance Technician include:
- Understands, follows and enforces all established safety, health, quality GMP and Company policies, procedures and recognized practices.
- Understands, follows and enforces all established policies, procedures and recognized practices.
- Focus on producing quality product by monitoring quality levels and adjust the manufacturing processes to ensure product integrity.
- Maintain controls for assuring successful plant performance to budgeted goals.
- Perform highly diversified duties to install and maintain production machines and the plant facility’s equipment.
- Diagnose problems, replace or repair parts, test and make adjustments.
- Provide emergency/unscheduled repairs of production equipment during operation and perform scheduled maintenance repairs of production equipment during machine service.
- Perform regular preventive maintenance on machines, equipment and plant facilities.
- Perform mechanic skills including, but not limited to, mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, troubleshooting and repair of production machines.
- Read and interpret equipment manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and service.
- Perform simple machinist skills.
- Use a variety of hand and power tools, electric meters and material handling equipment in performing duties.
- Detect faulty operations, defective material and report those and any unusual situations to proper supervision.
- Assist and train production employees in proper operation and maintenance of machinery
- Limited travel may be required
Graham Packaging Company is looking for a Forklift Operator based in Mason, OH for night shift operating from 6:45pm to 7pm (paid lunch), on a 2-2-3 schedule.
Pay: $21.47/hr
Additional $1.00 night shift differential.
Weekly Pay and Benefits Effective Day One!
Forklift Operators perform a combination of product handling and lift truck operating duties to stack, transport, and store work-in-process and finished goods. Supplies production lines with efficient flow of materials – knockdowns and dividers - and moves finished goods to warehouse. Complete line driver reports accurately and legible showing locations and quantities of raw materials used as well as quantities and locations where finished goods were stored. Assist production line employees by relieving them in breaks and lunchtime periods. The primary duties of a Forklift Operator include:
- Follow all established safety, health, quality GMP and Company policies, procedures and recognized practices.
- Perform a safety lift truck inspection and battery check and report any equipment malfunctioning or damage to the Warehouse Manager or Shift Supervisor. Change lift truck batteries and add water when necessary; keep record of time batteries are changed. Fill out lift truck status report.
- Participate in continuous quality improvement projects and other related activities as assigned.
- Review daily production schedule with Shift Supervisor, brings materials to the production lines when needed to execute schedule and notify supervisor of any materials running low. Removes finished goods from production lines, back to assigned warehouse locations.
- Provide accurate information of unloaded materials as well as materials used or produced to warehouse personnel.
- Remove, store, and unitize production scrap bales and informs warehouse personnel when there is enough for a full load. Removes excess corrugated from mezzanine and empties baler as required. Takes full bales of cardboard scrap from baler to assigned location in the warehouse.
- Maintain accurate records of materials being used and produced, and reports them in appropriate paperwork, back to warehouse personnel.
- Remove finished goods and other materials in hold to assigned location. Stores finished goods stacked neatly and in proper height. Verifies that all finished goods removed from the production area must have a product code tag.
- Participate in physical inventory taking.
- Keep each production line supplied with the proper knock down cases, dividers, pallets and when each pallet is full take that pallet to the warehouse for loading on the trailer; and takes unused cases and dividers back to the warehouse to the proper location.
- On limited production, may assist in stock-handler duties or load trailers as needed.
- Bring up hot glue cases to the mezzanine, brings color concentrate to the lines, replaces cold glue tote, removes excess cases from production floor, brings slip sheets to production floor, loads storage racks with gaylords, set up rework, set up units of product on hold for Q.C., relieves stock handlers, loads and unloads corrugated trailers, identifies good corrugated from the bad and isolates it.
- Follow established forklift procedures and complete required safety and maintenance checklists
- Follow established procedures for damaged finished goods and raw materials and report them on line driver report.
- Communicate with supervisor regarding shift totals and machine totals reports and with other lift truck operators regarding any changes or problems that arise, including damaged materials, damaged skids, or low inventories.
- Complete written documentation as required.
- Assist in relieving downstream teammates for breaks and lunches.
- Use forklift to move pallets of finished product to stretch wrap machines to stretch wrap them and to staging area after wrapping, or to specify warehouse location. Completes finished goods report or worksheet.
- Maintain supplies of corrugated and other packaging supplies at each machine.
- Visually inspect all completed pallets of product for quality and conformity to the packaging instructions to ensure quality at the source.
- Limited travel may be required.
Graham Packaging Company is looking for a Maintenance Technician Lead. This opening is for day shift, which operates during the hours of 6:48 am - 3 pm.
Maintenance Technician Leads are responsible for leading and coordinates activities of vendors and workers engaged in repair, maintenance, and installation of machines, tools, and equipment; and in maintenance of buildings, grounds, and utility systems of mill, industrial plant, or other establishment s. The primary duties of a Maintenance Technician Lead include:
- Understands, follows and enforces all established safety, health, quality GMP and Company policies, procedures and recognized practices.
- Understands, follows and enforces all established policies, procedures and recognized practices.
- Report to and inform the Maintenance Manager of project status, training status and requirements as well as material requirements.
- Direct and assign the day-to-day workload of the Maintenance Technicians.
- Participate in continuous quality improvement projects and other related activities as assigned.
- Review production, quality control and maintenance reports and statistics to plan and modify maintenance activities.
- Plan, develop and implement new methods and procedures designed to improve operations, minimize operating costs and affect greater utilization of labor and materials.
- Assist the Maintenance Manager with workload and project planning.
- Maintain project, maintenance and repair parts and supplies inventories.
- Originate and implement purchase order process, including vendor setup and EMIS data entry and necessary reports.
- Coordinate outside vendors to perform scheduled maintenance and repairs in specialized areas and review performance for quality and cost effectiveness.
- Perform all duties and responsibilities of a Maintenance Technician.
- Train new Maintenance Technicians and coordinate ongoing training of existing staff.
- Manage and operate the Maintenance/Inventory/PM Software Program.
- Fill in for Maintenance Manager when necessary.
- Assist in the coordination of projects with engineering, machine shop and shift supervisors.
- Complete written documentation as required.
- Assist with on call duties after hours and weekends.
- Limited travel may be required.
Graham Packaging Company is looking for a Machine Operator based in Bradenton FL. This opening is for 2nd shift, which operates during the hours of 3pm to 11pm. Work days are rotational, work 5 alternating days, rest 2 days.
Pay: $19.85/hr
Weekly Pay and Benefits Effective Day One!
The Operator is responsible for operating a given number of plastic blow molding machines (including in-line equipment), and makes necessary adjustments or minor repairs to ensure production of containers is made in a safe, efficient and high quality manner. The primary duties of an Operator include:
- Understands, follows and enforces all established safety, health, quality GMP and Company policies, procedures and recognized practices.
- Understands, follows and enforces all established policies, procedures and recognized practices.
- Participate in continuous quality improvement projects and other related activities as assigned
- Operate a group of plastic blow molding machines and auxiliary equipment producing a container in a safe and high quality method.
- Participate in continuous quality improvement projects and other related activities as assigned.
- Perform and/or assists in mold, insert and color changes on the line.
- Perform basic processing of injection and/or blow molding machines to improve machine efficiency and reduce scrap.
- Perform tasks and responsibilities of any Utility position during slow periods and/or as needed.
- Monitor HDPE/PET resin (if applicable), dryer, material handling and color systems for appropriate processing conditions.
- Make frequent on time quality checks on products being produced from established quality standards.
- Assist other Operators and maintenance personnel on mechanical repairs.
- Perform assigned preventative maintenance work.
- Maintain work area to acceptable safety and housekeeping standards.
- Complete and file all required documentation in an orderly and timely manner.
- Communicate with the Production Shift Supervisor to coordinate production line support staff in accomplishing the lines’ objectives.
- Verify material usage per standards
- Perform minor troubleshooting and programming on the line. Notify leads and supervisors of any major problems or questions.
- Operate equipment to minimize the generation and maximize the consumption of regrind, purge and scrap within customer specifications where applicable.
- Properly identify regrind and chunk produced.
- Communicate processing information to designated personnel on incoming shift. Assist other Operators as needed.
- Assist in the training of new Operators.
- Limited travel may be required
About us:
Graham Packaging is dedicated to strengthening its role as a lead provider of custom blow-molding container solutions in the structural plastic packaging industry. We are dedicated to reducing our environmental impact and embracing circular economy principles through our forward-thinking design approach.
Location:
This position is based at Graham Packaging Company's Global Technology Center in York, PA
Role Overview:
We're actively seeking a talented and enthusiastic Industrial Designer with 3-7 years of design experience, although will consider recent graduates with strong portfolios to join our dynamic team.
In this role, you'll play a crucial part in developing concepts and fostering innovation across various industries. This position prioritizes meticulous attention to shaping and designing details and a genuine understanding and empathy for the consumer.
The designer will be responsible to collaborate or spearhead consumer concept efforts by creating new bottle design solutions. These ideas will be crafted using various methods such as sketching, 3D CAD designs, and renderings to interpret customer requirements.
Primary duties include supporting the creative team with tasks such as project discovery, brainstorming, 3D form development, and consideration of human factors. Centered on our customers' and consumers' needs, this position will involve continuous advancement in design, validation of concepts, and ongoing learning.
The successful candidate will actively collaborate with various engineering groups, embracing teamwork with cross-functional partners from Strategic Marketing, Commercial Teams, and Operations. Additionally, the ideal candidate will exhibit the ability to confidently present to both customers and colleagues and work independently when necessary.
Our in-house design team provides comprehensive support across diverse industries, including Beverage, Food, Nutritional, Automotive, and Household Care. Our design staff is widely recognized within the industry and is poised to provide valuable guidance and support for the growth and development of the individual in this design role. Our client base includes prominent blue-chip customers, and we ensure that generated ideas are seamlessly integrated into our engineering process for production. Experience in Plastic Blow-Molding design and development is a plus.
We welcome you to embark on this journey with us if you're enthusiastic about making a meaningful impact in the realm of custom blow-molded plastic packaging with sustainability at its core.