Company Overview
Why Choose Us?
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.
Our Sustainability Commitment
The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products, our operations and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability, helping us achieve our ambitious goals through our wide-ranging initiatives.
Job Description
Adjuster Mechanic
Brownsville, TX
Compensation Includes
Starting pay rate of $18-22/hour
Available Shift
3rd
Overview
Reporting to the Shift Supervisor, the Adjuster is responsible for adjusting Merchandise, Grocery or Sack paper bag machines. They are also responsible for the safety, product quality and meeting/exceeding production targets in their assigned area.
Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities
Continuously perform all required tasks in a safe manner, adhering to all established safety rules and procedures
Ensure all guards are in place and functioning properly
Enforce all safety rules including but not limited to safe work procedures such as lockout/tag out
Enforce PPE requirements
Identify safety training needs provide feedback to Safety Manager, Supervisor, or training coordinator
Check bags for quality defects off the machine, do all quality checks and paper-work as per Quality Policy
Ensure requires quality checks are being performed by the BMO
Perform quality checks ate each roll change
Identify quality training needs and provide feedback to quality manager, supervisor, or training coordinator
Follow all quality policies and procedures. Must comply with all good manufacturing practices
Must comply with all safety practices and guidelines including PPE requirements
Make machine set ups and order changeovers
Adjust and repair machines as needed in order to increase production, reduce downtime, eliminate quality issues and improve machine durability
Monitor employee breaks and schedule relief as needed
Identify training needs and schedule training session with shift Supervisor/training coordinator
Monitor machine run speeds and adjust to run at budgeted speeds or better
Communicate any issues or pending work at shift change with the incoming adjusters
Report machine issues and plan repair work accordingly
Maintain daily housekeeping standards
Enforce all safety procedures and GMP polices
Submit accurate production reports daily and timely
Meet/achieve safety, quality, production waste and housekeeping goals set forth by management
Principal Accountabilities
Follows all Company rules and guidelines
Avoid unsafe practices or carelessness. Follow all Company safety rules and policies. Follow all safety rule specific to each machine and/or department
Cooperate with fellow employees
Be always waste conscious of efforts and materials
Attempts to achieve quality product
Good attendance is a condition of employment
Qualifications
Prefer to have a High School Diploma or GED
Minimum 3 year of experience working in a manufacturing environment
Capable of communicating with all levels of internal and external customers
Must be able to think on your feet, work with limited supervision and make sound decisions
Must be a team player with a "can do" attitude
Should possess basic mechanical skills
Must be capable of standing for long periods of time
Ability to frequently lift and carry 50 lbs
Must have basic troubleshooting abilities
Regularly required to stand, sit, move about facility, climb stairs, bend, twist, kneel, crouch or crawl, use hands and fingers to touch, handle, or feel objects, tools and controls, grasp, push, pull, reach with hands and arms, lift above shoulder level. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, color vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus
Work Environment
While performing the duties of this job the employee frequently works near moving mechanical parts. The employee occasionally is exposed to fumes or other airborne particles and vibration
Noise levels in the work environment usually in the range of 85 decibels therefore ear protection is required
Foot protection is required steel toe or composite shoes, or boots will be acceptable
Employee will be subject to mandatory testing for drugs and/or alcohol on a random, reasonable suspicion, post-accident, return-to-duty, and follow-up basis
Company Benefits
What You'll Get From Us
Benefits
With safety as our top priority and a commitment to employee well-being an important focus, we offer comprehensive and competitive benefits that include medical, dental and vision insurance as well as a variety of other well-being resources focused on mental, physical and financial health. Specific benefits and well-being programs may vary depending on where you work.
Community Engagement
At Novolex, giving back to the local communities that support us is important. Our Focused Giving Program prioritizes support for organizations whose missions promote sustainability initiatives or address food and hunger needs. We also encourage facility level support of activities in the communities where our employees live and work.
Training and Development
We offer constant opportunities for advancement. From skills development to advanced education programs, training and development programs and courses are available through MyLearning. Programs include company and industry training curricula, support for formal education through the Tuition Reimbursement Program (Non-Union), and a Learning Management System that supports and enhances employee skills at all levels of the organization.
Novolex is committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices, including but not limited to selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, handicap or disability, genetics, citizenship status, service member or veteran status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law. Any individual who, because of his or her disability, needs an accommodation in connection with an aspect of the Company's application process should contact myHRservices@novolex.com .
Formerly Pactiv Evergreen
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Job Locations US-TX-Brownsville
ID 2026-35867
Category Manufacturing
Position Type Full Time
Pay Type Hourly
