Job Description

Role Overview: Unpack Your Potential

Join Amcor as a Production Operator and help produce packaging that protects essential products worldwide. You’ll operate extrusion laminators, presses, and slitters to ensure safety, quality, and efficiency while minimizing cost, energy, and waste. This is a team-based role where your contributions directly impact our operational excellence and customer satisfaction.

You will also be safety advocate, who will foster facility awareness, involvement, and accountability of EHS issues to assure full integration of EHS initiatives with business activities.  Act as a resource to the EHS Manager in the development and administration of facility Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) programs in accordance with regulatory requirements and corporate policies, standards, procedures, and objectives.   This position is expected to have a strong presence on the manufacturing floor to drive accountability.  This role will support a location of 140-150 employees with moderate environmental and safety complexity.

Schedule

Choose the shift that works best:

• Rotating Schedule: Rotates monthly between:

  • 1st Shift – Mon–Fri, 6:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m.

  • 2nd Shift – Mon–Fri, 2:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m.

  • 3rd Shift – Sun–Thu, 10:30 p.m.–6:30 a.m.

• OR 3rd shift only -Sun–Thu, 10:30 p.m.–6:30 a.m.

Compensation & Benefits

• Starting pay: $30.00/hour, increasing to $35.20/hour after probationary period

• Overtime: 1.5× pay for hours over 40/week

• 401(k): Dollar-for-dollar company match up to 8%

• Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage starting Day 1

• Paid time off and holidays

• Career growth opportunities with a global leader

What You’ll Do

• Operate assigned production equipment (extrusion laminator, flexographic/rotogravure press, slitter/rewinder, or doctor winder) according to specifications and SOPs

• Support Environmental Health & Safety initiatives and maintain a safe work environment

• Monitor and maintain product quality, remove defects, and perform QA checks

• Complete required production, SOC, QA, and cleaning reports accurately

• Meet production targets while minimizing downtime, changeovers, and clean-ups

• Troubleshoot equipment or process issues and take corrective actions

• Operate a forklift safely and handle materials efficiently

• Participate in WCOM, 5S, and GFSI initiatives to maintain a clean, organized, and compliant workplace

• Perform assistant-level duties as needed and maintain housekeeping standards

• Perform additional duties as assigned by management

• •Coordinate the Directive Ownership Program- facilitating program to completion.

• Facilitate site safety committees (scheduling, recruiting and meeting leadership)

• Performance of risk assessments (participates in and facilitates majority of risk assessments in the facility, trains new assessors), documentation of work instructions and other instructional materials.

• Daily Line Management (DLM) leader: facilitates production floor DLM meeting, data entry of daily audit items and identifies improvement opportunities.

• Act as liaison between EHS Management and production floor partners; drive improvement through coaching and training; drive accountability through audits and observations.  Requires some flexibility in scheduling for occasional production floor presence during off shifts. 

• Assist with the development of programs and solutions for the location’s EHS Compliance Audit findings.

• Assists the Site EHS Manager, leadership team and Partners with the implementation of creative approaches to improve safety, and liability, and implement EHS initiatives.

• Support facility incident investigation process to ensure incidents are reported in a timely manner, root causes are identified, and corrective actions are tracked through closure.

• Provide training and information necessary to ensure responsible personnel are aware of corporate and governmental EHS regulations and requirements.

• Support the development, maintenance, implementation, and annual review of EHS policies, procedures, and responsibilities, and develop activities that will stimulate and maintain employee interest as well as improve EHS performance metrics.

What We’re Looking For

• Manufacturing experience preferred

• Strong computer, communication, and organizational skills

• Ability to read/follow instructions, perform basic math, and convert measurements

• Team-oriented with willingness to train and collaborate

• Mechanical aptitude is a plus

Physical Requirements

• Lift up to 55 lbs and push/pull 20–55 lbs

• Continuous standing and walking

• Exposure to noise above 85 dB and solvent odors/heat from production

• Frequent use of hands and arms; vision requirements include close, distance, color, peripheral, depth perception

• Reasonable accommodations considered case-by-case

Why Choose Amcor

Be part of a global leader that values safety, integrity, collaboration, accountability, results, and outperformance. At Amcor, your contributions are recognized, your growth is supported, and your work makes a difference.

👉 Apply today and unpack your potential with Amcor.

Our Expectations

We expect our people to be guided by The Amcor Way and demonstrate our Values every day to enable the business to win. We are winning when:

• Our people are engaged and developing as part of a high-performing Amcor team
• Our customers grow and prosper from Amcor’s quality, service, and innovation
• Our investors benefit from Amcor’s consistent growth and superior returns
• The environment is better off because of Amcor’s leadership and products

Accelerate the possible by joining a winning Amcor team that’s transforming the packaging industry and improving lives around the world.

At Amcor, we unpack possibility through our innovative and responsible packaging to provide solutions that benefit our customers, our people and our planet.  More than 10,000 consumers worldwide encounter our products every second and rely on us for safe access to food, medicine and other goods. We value their trust by making safety our guiding principle. It’s our core value and integral to how we do business.

Beyond this core principle, our shared values and behaviors unite us as we work together to elevate customers, shape lives and protect the future. We champion our customers and help them succeed. We play to win – adapting quickly in an everchanging world – and make smart choices to safeguard our business, our communities and the people we serve for generations to come. And we invest in our world-class team, empowering our colleagues to unpack their potential, because we believe when our people grow, so does our business.

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Amcor is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Benefits

When you join Amcor, you will have access to a comprehensive benefits and compensation package that includes:

• Medical, dental and vision plans

• Paid time off, starting at 40 hours per year for full-time hourly employees, may vary by location

• Company-paid holidays starting at 8 days per year and may vary by location

• Wellbeing programs & Employee Assistance Program

• Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account

• Life insurance, AD&D, short-term & long-term disability, and voluntary benefits

• Paid Parental Leave

• Retirement Savings Plan with company match

• Tuition Reimbursement (dependent upon approval)

• Discretionary bonus program (initial eligibility dependent upon hire date)