Shipping Clerk
AerotekJob Title: Shipping and Packaging Machine Operator - 3rd shift - 23/hr
Job Description
This role operates and monitors packaging and production machinery in a large manufacturing environment, ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality output. You will handle equipment such as palletizers, strapping machines, wrapping machines, and forklifts while maintaining consistent product patterns, meeting
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production goals, and upholding strict safety and housekeeping standards.
Responsibilities
• Operate and understand packaging machinery including palletizers, strapping machines, wrapping machines, forklifts, and related equipment.
• Perform short-cycle, repetitive, and controlled operations on production machines to support continuous manufacturing.
• Maintain set patterns of products on pallets and packaging lines to achieve consistent, high-quality output.
• Inspect products and packaging for quality defects and take appropriate action to correct issues.
• Perform minor adjustments and basic troubleshooting on machinery to maintain optimal performance.
• Meet and maintain standard production objectives and throughput targets.
• Handle, load, and move materials and products safely, including lifting, carrying, and pushing/pulling items over 50 lbs.
• Maintain clean, organized, and safe housekeeping standards in assigned work areas.
• Use required personal protective equipment, including steel-toed shoes and eye, hearing, and hand protection; wear head protection in designated areas as needed.
• Participate in training to learn forklift operations and obtain forklift certification.
• Follow all safety procedures, plant rules, and equipment operating guidelines.
• Work a 12-hour 3rd shift schedule and complete required day-shift training before transitioning to nights.
Essential Skills
• Minimum 2+ years of industrial or manufacturing experience operating machines.
• Experience in production, general labor, general production, or packaging environments.
• Ability to perform inspection tasks and identify quality defects.
• Ability to safely use hand tools and basic equipment for minor machine adjustments.
• Capability to lift, carry, and push/pull over 50 lbs on a regular basis.
• Ability to stand, walk, and move continuously for 12-hour shifts.
• Willingness to learn how to drive a forklift and obtain forklift certification.
• Consistent use of steel-toed shoes and hearing protection while on the production floor.
• Comfort working with machinery such as palletizers, strapping machines, wrapping machines, and forklifts.
• Ability to follow set production patterns and standard operating procedures.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
• Experience in manufacturing or industrial packaging operations.
• Experience with general assembly, packing, and machine operating tasks.
• Familiarity with material handling, loading, and forklift operations (or strong interest in learning).
• Comfort working in a large-scale manufacturing or packaging facility with multiple production lines.
• Strong attention to detail and quality in repetitive production tasks.
• Reliability in attending 12-hour shifts and adapting to night shift work.
• Ability to maintain good housekeeping and organization in assigned areas.
Why Work Here?
The company offers competitive pay and the stability of working with a national-scale organization. You will gain valuable experience in a large manufacturing and packaging operation, develop new skills such as forklift operation, and work within a structured environment that supports safety, training, and long-term career growth.
Work Environment
This role is based in a large manufacturing and packaging operation with gated parking lots and badge-access-controlled buildings. You will work primarily on a 3rd shift schedule from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., on 12-hour shifts, after completing initial training on a day shift with 8-hour schedules for approximately 2 to 4 weeks, depending on individual progress. The facility houses mult