Machine Operator Job at Alpla Inc., Bowling Green, KY

  • Alpla Inc.
  • Bowling Green, KY

Job Description

Build a Career, Not Just a Job

 

Join ALPLA, a global leader in sustainable packaging solutions serving some of the world's most recognized brands, including P&G, Unilever, L'Oréal, PepsiCo, and many more.

As a family-owned company with locations around the world, ALPLA offers stable careers, hands-on training, competitive benefits, and opportunities for growth. Whether you're an experienced manufacturing professional or looking to start a new career, we provide the support and development you need to succeed.

What Can You Expect From ALPLA

  • Competitive pay and comprehensive benefits
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Childcare and dependent care savings programs
  • Paid vacation and holidays
  • Company-paid life, short-term, and long-term disability insurance
  • Tuition reimbursement and educational assistance programs
  • Career growth and advancement opportunities
  • Employee recognition programs
  • Hands-on training and professional development
  • A stable, growing company committed to sustainability

 

Ready to Build Your Future? 

Join a team where your contributions matter, your development is supported, and your career can grow with a global industry leader.

Apply today and discover what a career at ALPLA can offer.

 


WHAT YOU WILL ENJOY DOING
  

  • Overall line responsibility from production to packaging
    • Start / Stop the machine
    • Performs parison controls
    • Monitor Material control (weight distribution, regrind levels, watch tail
      lengths, etc)
    • Performs regular quality control throughout the shift and visual quality
      check
    • Prepare machine for mold change
    • Ensure goods are produced in correct quantity and in accordance with agreed
      specifications
    • Accurately records goods produced, and problems encountered during shift
    • Line clearance performance
    • Autonomous maintenance activities
  • Assists Machine Operator II/Shift Supervisor/Mold Change Team with mold/color
    changes as needed
  • Working together in a Team
  • Maintain good housekeeping in and around the machine and within department

Education/Experience:  

 

  • High School Diploma or equivalent
  • Technical/mechanical background in Plastics Industry preferred

 

Qualification/Skills:   

  • Basic computer skills
  • Demonstrated mechanical ability

 

  Physical Demands:  

 

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

 

  • The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms and very occasionally to climb or balance.
  • The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.
  • The employee is occasionally required to sit.
  • The employee must regularly lift and/ or move up to 10 lbs, frequently lift and/or move up to 30 lbs and occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 lbs.
  • Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

 


It is required to act in a safe and environmentally responsible manner at all times by adhering to all ALPLA policies and procedures and Safety Standards (OSHA). #entrylevel #BOW2

 

ALPLA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: ALPLA is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at ALPLA are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. ALPLA will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

Equal Opportunity Employer
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.

Job Tags

Full time, Temporary work, Shift work

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