Process Technician

Novolex • Kalamazoo, MI

8d • Onsite

About The Position

The Process Technician is the technical leader on shift for the assigned work team. 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.

Requirements

• Good communication skills
• Must be a Self-starter
• Have Thermoforming tooling knowledge
• Has operated thermoforming or extrusion equipment, Operator 4 or 5 old system, Operator 2 or 3 new system
• Scheduling knowledge
• Good Excel and project knowledge.
• Operating Machinery, Analyzing, and Solving Problems

Nice To Haves

• Set up experience, 2 years preferred

Responsibilities

• Coordinates and facilitates the addition of new equipment or products into work team activities to ensure that teams are comfortable utilizing the equipment/product
• Establishes a productive working environment that develops, supports, and motivates employees
• Prioritizes and allocates team resources, pulls defined help chains, and returns the team to the defined standard
• Provides accurate and timely cost data for the new products and existing products that require changes. Maintains all estimating assumptions based on material and production line constraints.
• Executes the Plan, Do, Check, Act process to assist in the continual improvement of results achieved through various tools, such as A3, Storyboards, War Room and SAPQ1/Q3
• Coordinates and facilitates assigned projects into work team activities.

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision insurance
• variety of other well-being resources focused on mental, physical and financial health
• Tuition Reimbursement Program (Non-Union)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree