Title:  Packer

Requisition ID:  20530-159
Location: 

Pittston, PA, US, 18640

Category:  Hourly Production & Manufacturing
Travel:  No Travel Required

Operate and pack cups/stack blanks/sleeves from a cup packaging machine or from the press.

 

Check for quality of the product and ensures the product is packed/stacked into the proper corrugation.

 

Ensure the corrugation/pallet is properly labeled for the product that is coming from the cup-forming machine or from the press.

 

Inspect the cups/blanks/sleeves for quality.

 

Notify the Operator/Lead Packer/Pressman of any defects.

 

Practice good housekeeping.

 

Keep area clean at all times.

 

Check stack height of the blanks/sleeves.

 

Perform other duties as assigned by supervision.

 

Follow all safety rules, regulations, and policies.


Required Skills

Less than high school. No prior experience necessary.

 

Regularly required to stand for long periods; use hands to finger, handle, or feel, objects, tools, or controls and

reach with hands and arms.

 

Good hand -eye coordination is essential.

 

Required to climb, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

 

Regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

 

Occasionally push or pull a pallet jack with 1000 pounds load.

 

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and normal color vision.

 

Occasionally exposed to fumes, or dust.

 

Work near moving mechanical parts.

 

 

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, & ABILITIES

 

Read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.

 

Write simple correspondence.

 

Effectively present information in one-on-one and small groups situations.

 

Apply commonsense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.

 

Deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

 

Add, subtract, multiply, and divide, in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions,

and decimals.


Required Experience






At Graphic Packaging International, we produce the paper cup that held your coffee this morning, the basket that transported those bottles of craft beer you enjoyed last weekend, and the microwave tray that heated your gourmet meal last night. We’re one of the largest manufacturers of paperboard and paper-based packaging for some of the world’s most recognized brands of food, beverage, foodservice, household, personal care and pet products. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we are collaborative, diverse, innovative individuals who create inspired packaging while giving back to our communities. With over 25,000 employees working in more than 130 locations worldwide, we strive to be environmentally responsible in our industry and in the communities where we operate. We are committed to workplace diversity and offer compensation and benefits programs that are among the industry’s best to reward the talented people who make our company successful. If this sounds like something you would like to be a part of, we’d love to hear from you. Learn more about us at www.graphicpkg.com.

Inspired Packaging. A World of Difference.


Graphic Packaging is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All candidates will be evaluated on the basis of their qualifications for the job in question. We do not base our employment decision on an employee's or applicant's race, color, religion, age, gender or sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic identity, genetic information, disability, veteran/military status or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law. Click here to view the Poster, EEO is the Law.


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