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Material Handler- starting at $14/hour (higher with experience) in Plastipak
  • Responsible for reporting food safety issues to personnel with authority to initiate action.

  • Adheres to all work instructions, Good Manufacturing Practices and housekeeping procedures.

  • Utilizes approved work instructions for storage, transfer and loading of finished goods.

  • Loads/unloads shuttle trailers.

  • Maintain clean and orderly warehouse.

  • Responsible for the accuracy of all transactions and product scanning.

  • Documents all shipment, both inbound and outbound per work instructions.

  • Repairs damaged and non-conforming units promptly (rework).

  • Verifies the quality of the product sent outbound meets customer expectations.

  • Communicates with team members and other process teams as necessary to ensure process efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Identify and report the discovery of any non-conforming finished goods promptly.
  • Completes applicable routine forklift inspections and maintenance, including battery recharge, changing fuel tanks, and equipment lubrication.
  • Performs work in a safe manner, and is responsible for following all safety policies and procedures.
  • Responsible for working effectively with production associates, and other team members.
  • Has the authority to place product on hold.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.
  • Responsibilities and authorities as documented in the Quality Manual, Operational Procedures, HACCP Manual, Common Work Instructions and Site Work Instructions.

Qualifications

  • High school diploma or general education degree (GED); and one to three months related experience, or equivalent combination of education, training, or experience.
  • Ability to read and understand documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
  • Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
  • Ability to perform basic math calculations.
  • Must be able to operate a forklift

WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYISCAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  • Physical effort required, continuous mental and visual attention required.

  • Lift 10-25 lbs regularly.

  • Lift up to 60 lbs occasionally.

  • Walk up stairs.

  • Manual dexterity.

  • Exposed to dust, odors, oil and noise.

  • Required to stand and move about the facility, 8+ hours.

  • Overtime required per schedule.

PositionMaterial Handler- starting at $14/hour (higher with experience)
Job Category Warehouse
Industry TypePlastic Manufacturing
Location of JobWest Chicago, IL
SalaryNS
Last Date to Apply08 December 2016
Desired Candidate's Profile

Plastipak Packaging is an industry leader in the design and manufacturing of plastic rigid containers of the highest quality. Plastipak supports manufacturing operations throughout the United States, South America and Europe.

A Business Based on Ethical Standards

Plastipak operates by meeting expectations for ethical conduct as well as financial goals — all without compromising its integrity. Indeed, we have built a global business culture based on honor, openness and inclusion.As Plastipak expanded to include locations on three continents, respect for human dignity has remained fundamental to how the company conducts its business. We actively participate in the communities in which Plastipak associates work and live.With suppliers and customers in agreement, Plastipak works to meet high conservation standards while enhancing the health and safety of its employees and communities.Plastipak has aligned both its business and sustainability practices to create a culture of inclusion for associates throughout the company's international operations.

Supportive Environment

The Workplace
Plastipak's most important resource is our associates.
Plastipak operates with an appreciation for individual contributions and innovation. Plastipak associates contribute to:

  • Maintaining high performance in order to achieve outstanding customer service
  • Designing innovative products positioning Plastipak as a global leader in packaging
  • Improving communities where Plastipak has a presence

Plastipak does the following for associates:

  • Pays fair wages based on industry standards
  • Offers benefits such as health insurance, life insurance and paid vacations
  • Provides a safe work environment
  • Relates fairly and honestly with associates
  • Complies with the minimum age laws in all countries where it conducts business
  • Complies with all laws supporting workplace diversity

Open Communication

Mutually respectful and trusting relationships require open communication. Each associate must feel free to communicate opinions, share ideas and resolve problems in an environment that encourages and promotes opportunities for success and professional growth.Plastipak actively promotes open and honest communication as demonstrated by the company's “Open Line Communication System.” This system allows an associate to ask a question or voice a concern confidentially via the Corporate Talent Management Department.

Our Global Initiatives Thrive on Effective Management

As global producers of plastic containers, we have a responsibility from design to disposal to meet sustainability demands. Our sustainability initiatives are guided by a Bottle to Bottle approach to recycling.Plastipak holds itself accountable to stakeholders to run operations in an environmentally friendly manner for current and future generations. We have made that goal an inseparable part of our business plan.

Protecting the Environment

The impact of climate change and the threat to the environment from pollutants are too big to ignore, and Plastipak is doing everything possible to protect the future of the planet.The company is committed to social responsibility for environmental guardianship and its leadership in sustainability. Plastipak is meeting the goals set by the company's formal conservation plan.

Under this plan Plastipak has initiated a program to reduce compressed air leakage throughout all of our U.S. operations, achieve greater fuel economy, reduce volatile emissions and expand lightweighting programs to reduce the amount of plastic in each container. Plastipak engineers its source materials, technologies, transportation, distribution and recycling scenarios to fit customer sustainability requirements as well. 

Sustainability Means Engagement

Engagement is important to Plastipak. By engaging the hearts and minds of associates, Plastipak creates unique and sustainable packaging solutions for its customers. Consumers and corporations alike must be engaged in order to sustain the planet's resources.Such unified engagement has powerful, long-reaching effects. Participation in conservation initiatives has a positive impact on the economic, human and natural environments. 

A Modern Recycling Facility

Clean Tech's recycling processes focus on the effective management of the life cycle of plastic containers. Clean Tech’s highly qualified engineers design unique technologies to maximize plastic’s beneficial features throughout a product's life cycle and its subsequent lives as recycled material.

Clean Tech engineers follow company directives to reduce material use and weight, where feasible, which in turn yields lower energy and transportation costs. High material production standards are always met to ensure that recycled materials can stand up to quality package demands for maintaining product freshness.

Making Good Use of Recycled Materials

Plastipak uses the inherent resilience of plastics as a key resource for developing sensible, environmentally-friendly packaging lines.Plastics are flexible, durable and endlessly recyclable, permitting limitless use and reuse. The recyclable nature of plastics opens the way for Plastipak to construct its manufacturing to help reclaim bottles rather than only creating new plastics.Clean Tech provides the critical component of this system with its capability of recycling HDPE and PET bottles to produce highly useful post consumer materials.

We Reuse Our Own Recycled Materials
Plastipak's commitment to using renewable and recyclable materials along with reduced content is at the heart of its sustainability initiative. The company manufactures an array of containers for both food and non-food products using recycled plastic produced by Clean Tech. For instance, Clean Tech recycled material replaces at least 10% of the plastic content for a line of beverage bottles.

Experienceone to three months related experience, or equivalent combination of education, training, or experience.
QualificationHigh school diploma or general education degree (GED)
Contact Details
Contact NameHR
Contact Emailerecruiting[at]plastipak.com
Websitehttp://www.plastipak.com/
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