Operator Lead

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

Available shifts: 2nd Shift 

Compensation:

• Pay range is $20.50 an hour - paid weekly - Additional $2 per hour as shift differential for night shift

Job Summary:

The Lead assists the Production Supervisor and Assistant Supervisor in all manufacturing processes and procedures. Works in collaboration with employees, and management team to enforce safety and quality policies and procedures as dictated by company's handbook. Responsible for assisting with training new employees. The Lead will perform same labor functions as the workers being supervised to allow employees to take breaks and when business conditions warrant it.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Complies with Heritage Bag's policies and procedures and safety requirements
• Aids the plant's shift Production Supervisors and Assistant Supervisors in all manufacturing processes and procedures
• Assists Production Supervisor and Assistant Supervisor in observing daily shift operations and reports any new developments or concerns
• Coordinates plant activities with Production Supervisor and Assistant Production Supervisor to ensure total plant manufacturing objectives are accomplished in a timely and cost-effective manner
• Assists in maintaining production paperwork and computer work (AX) for designated area/shift
• Will train new personnel on existing production protocol, safety, and plant equipment
• Enforces company safety policies and procedures
• Regularly communicates with maintenance staff about repair and maintenance needs of plant equipment
• The leads will be included in the overtime resource pool to cover opposite lead coverage as needed.
• It is the responsibility of the Lead to ensure that all products being produced throughout their assigned areas are within specification.
• All work orders are to be checked for errors and the Lead is responsible for ensuring needed corrections are made.
• Leads are responsible for ensuring the accuracy and thoroughness of the QC Sheets.
• Leads are required to check each changeover after a set up for quality assurance and adherence to specifications.
• It is the responsibility of the Lead to maximize production in their assigned area with machine output rates, runtimes, and proper utilization of employees.
• It is the responsibility of the Lead to train employees on techniques and procedures involving equipment to help maximize production.
• The Lead shall ensure that all proper materials and methods are used in the production process.
• Leads are responsible for scrap produced in their assigned area. This involves:

1. The weighing and recording of the data.

2. Determining at what level action is to be taken when producing scrap.

3. What needs to be done or was done to correct the problem.

4. Minimizing scrap with planning, proper care, and maintenance of the equipment.

5. Planning changeovers out ahead of time.

• Housekeeping in their assigned area shall be maintained daily.
• Leads are responsible for clear communication in their assigned areas.

Other Responsibilities and Duties

• Will occasionally perform labor functions as needed.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• High School diploma or equivalent.
• Experience in reading work orders and being capable of giving instruction and performing complete and complex setup of extrusion lines including startup of extruder, pulling and threading webs during threading of extruder, treaters, presses, post gussetters, and bag machine or winder.
• Perform troubleshooting and maintenance on bag machine, separator, or winder.
• Experienced with the plant's film printing processes. This includes threading of presses, knowledge of press controls and minor adjustment of print cylinders. Ability to mount cylinders into press and get cylinders gauged to proper distance. Know mounting of basic print jobs and ability to operate printing presses as needed.
• Full knowledge of the plant's quality processes including monitoring case weights of finished product for all bag lines and ensuring record keeping at hourly intervals. Perform spot inspections of finished product and record results on corresponding paperwork. Thorough knowledge on making all needed adjustments and corrections as required to meet specifications.
• Have full knowledge of procedures for removal of finished product, scrap, and unused cartons and other supplies from the manufacturing area when no longer required for use. Know procedures for weighing of scrap, wrapping, and logging of finished product.
• Have full knowledge of procedures for inspecting skids of finished product for proper labeling, date codes, special ticketing or tagging.
• Five to ten years of direct blown film processing and troubleshooting experience preferred. High level of discretion, confidentiality, and work ethics. Able to effectively communicate. Excellent historical scheduled work attendance. Ability to successfully multitask in a fast pace environment. Willing to be certified in CPR, First Aid and Bloodborne Pathogens.
• Physical Requirements and Work Environment
• Manufacturing work environment. Constant physical activities are required for this position. Such activities include the ability to reach over head, squat, and bend at the waist; the ability to lift boxes of 60 lbs or more; ability to climb up and down stairs throughout a 12-hour shift; tolerance of standing posture continuously for 12 hours; intense walking is involved; able to tolerate working environment with inside excessive hot and cold temperatures.

Company Benefits

What You'll Get From UsBenefits

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

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