Machinist

**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** **Have you worked with** **Worked with GE-Fanuc, Allen Bradley, and Seimens equipment?? Do you have basic knowledge of** **problem solving, and technical mechanical skills??? We are looking for you!!!** **Compensation:** + **Starting pay rate $29.90 depending on experience - paid weekly** **Machinist** **available shift** : 12/10/8 The Machinist supports the manufacturing group by completing thermoforming set-ups on schedule. Duties include installing and removing tooling, performing equipment repairs, following all company policies and safety procedures, and maintaining housekeeping standards. Additional tasks may be assigned. **Responsibilities:** _Safety_ + Support a safe workplace by following rules and speaking up when you see unsafe actions. + Follow all required safety procedures and PPE guidelines. + Keep work area clean and organized. + Immediately report any safety concerns, hazards, near misses, or injuries to supervisor on shift. _Quality_ + Follow all standard work procedures to ensure equipment runs product to quality standards. + Report equipment problems that could lead to quality defects of product. _Productivity_ + Learn and perform all tool room functions and thermoforming set-ups. + Read and use measuring tools (rule, micrometer, calipers). + Set-up and operate all tool room equipment. + Work from verbal instruction, sketches, or blueprints. + Work with minimal supervision and be accessible by radio at all times for direction. + Recommend component upgrades that increase productivity or reduce overtime. + Inspect equipment for problems and make adjustments as needed. + Complete all required paperwork correctly. + Maintain housekeeping in production areas and on equipment (sweeping, mopping, wiping down machines, removing waste) to keep the work area clean, safe, and contamination-free. + Work closely with tool room mechanics to ensure that adequate supplies are "on-hand". + Identify different plant materials correctly. + Safely operate forklifts, hand-jacks, hydraulic cranes, and other powered equipment. + Work in any area of the plant and overtime as needed. + Perform other tasks assigned by supervisor. **Requirements and Qualifications:** + Must have an outstanding work record. + Position requires an HS Diploma or GED, and 2-3 years related experience. + Demonstrated problem solving and mechanical skills are also required. + Ability to communicate clearly, both in writing and verbally is required, as is the ability to perform basic mathematical operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. + Ability to work with others effectively **as a part of a team is essential** . + Experience running all machine shop equipment. + Milling machine, Lathes, surface grinder. ETC... + Must have knowledge of safe machine shop practices. **Physical Requirements:** + Most routine tasks are performed while standing or walking or sitting. + Reaching, handling, fingering, and feeling are constantly present while performing job duties. + Frequently turning body from 0 to a maximum of 180 degrees. + Good eyesight is essential for constant inspection of product. Seeing both near and far, color vision and depths of field are all required. Vision corrected with glasses or contact lenses is acceptable. + Frequent walking is required. Distance can be over 500 feet. + Frequent climbing stairs to our parts supplies. + Occasional balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, or talking may be required. + Lifting up to 50 pounds is required. + Pushing and pulling is occasionally required. + Controls required include hands/arms (both) and feet/legs (both). + Environment includes inside work 100%, teamwork 100%, can be near or close to others, The production floor can be in excess of 95 degrees during the summer months. + Vibration can occasionally be present from product shakers or grinders. + There is a mild plastic smell at all times. Occasional smell of battery fluid during battery changes on the lift. + Personal Protective Equipment required includes safety glasses and gloves, hearing protection and proper footwear, hair nets are required out on production floor and warehouse. **\#INDDist** **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 **Job Locations** _US-PA-Hazle Township_ **ID** _2026-34271_ **Category** _Maintenance_ **Position Type** _Full Time_ **Pay Type** _Hourly_