Production Operator

About the role

Georgia Pacific is seeking Production Operators for their Janesville, WI facility. The Production Operator will support production by operating, monitoring, and optimizing extrusion equipment to ensure consistent product quality and meet or exceed production targets. This role is responsible for maintaining high standards of safety, quality, efficiency, machine up-time, and scrap reduction, while contributing to continuous improvement efforts within the plastics department at the lowest possible cost.

Responsibilities

• Adjust machine components to regulate speeds, pressures, temperatures and amounts, dimensions and flow of materials or ingredients
• Set extruder operating parameters
• Inspect the quality and correct any defects in the finished product
• Operate controls to adjust machine functions, such as regulating air pressure or die gaps
• Review work orders, specifications or instructions to determine materials, ingredients, procedures, components, settings, and adjustments for extruding plastic sheet
• Examine, measure and weigh materials or products to verify conformance to standards, using measuring devices such as micrometers or scales
• Move materials, supplies, components and finished product
• Troubleshoot equipment and production issues

Requirements

• Experience operating, troubleshooting, or maintaining industrial manufacturing equipment
• Experience working in a safety-focused industrial or manufacturing environment
• Experience reading gauges including a digital caliper and micrometer

Qualifications

• Sheet extrusion experience for thermoforming applications
• Experience operating a sheet die
• Experience with the blending, crystallizing and drying process
• Experience working with GMP, food-safety and ISO procedures
• Experience working with thermoforming or injection molding equipment
• Bilingual in Spanish and English

Schedule

Operators work 12‑hour shifts on a 2‑2‑3 schedule. Scheduled start times are either 6 am or 6 pm, with a $2 hourly shift differential for night shift.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Educational assistance program
• Infertility support and adoption/surrogacy assistance
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• Mental health coverage and support for you and your family
• 401(k) matching plus fixed contribution based on years of service
• Short‑term and long‑term disability
• Legal and financial advice