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Skilled Machine Operator

Amcor
Amcor Salary
Shelbyville, KY Full Time
POSTED ON 12/14/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/14/2026

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.


To learn more about playing for Team Amcor, visit www.amcor.com I LinkedIn I Glassdoor I Facebook I YouTube

Job Description

Role Overview: Unpack Your Potential

Join Amcor as a Machine Operator and play a key role in producing high-quality laminated products that protect what is important. Based on which machine you will run, you will lead machine line operations, including changeovers, start-ups, running, and shutdown, while prioritizing safety and compliance with specifications.


Schedule

Shift: 12-hour, 2-2-3 Nights, 7:00 p.m. – 7:00 a.m OR

12-hour, 2-2-3 Days, 7:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.


Compensation & Benefits: Value, Recognized

We reward great work with:


  • Pay: $18.59-$23.63.68/hour $1.50/hour night shift premium

  • Overtime: 1.5x pay for hours over 40 per week

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

  • Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on day one

  • Paid time off and holidays

  • Growth and development opportunities


Job Description: Possibility Unpacked

What you’ll do:

  • Operators will lead in all aspects of operation of lines including changeovers, machine start-up, running and shutdown.

  • Support operations in becoming World Class in all aspects of the business, beginning with Safety.

  • Run all jobs in accordance with customer specification, manufacturing specification, print specification, color folders and standard operating procedures.

  • Ensure all appropriate paperwork is filled out accurately and completely. This includes, but is not limited to; production reports, job verification sheets, ink usage sheets, QA reports, roll tickets (all flags are recorded), S.O.C sheets and all others as assigned.

  • Work with and direct the assistant and pit crew to minimize job change-over and down time.

  • Train and direct the assistant to become efficient at all the required assistant duties defined in each level of the assistant training matrix on time.

  • While also knowing and understanding the role in product safety.

  • Performs basic operator preventative maintenance to machines and/or tools

  • Comply with all 5S and WCM initiatives (Cross Training, moving to the work)

  • All other duties as assigned by supervisor or management


What We Want
From You: Lead the Pack

Preferred qualifications:

  • Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.

  • Ability read, understand, and follow customer specifications

  • Experience in manufacturing environment preferred.

  • Forklift experience preferred

  • Must have basic computer skills to complete tasks in operator software

  • Required to have visual acuity to perform visual inspection including the use of measurement devices and ability to identify and distinguish colors


What We Value

Our Core Values guide us: Safety, Integrity, Collaboration, Accountability, Results, and Outperformance.


Physical Requirements

  • Lift up to 50 lbs.

  • Stand for long periods (steel-toed shoes required)

  • Perform climbing, crouching, and reaching


Why Amcor
?

Be part of a global leader while working in a team-driven environment at our Shelbyville Liquids plant. At Amcor, your contributions are recognized, your growth is encouraged, 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

Equal Opportunity Employer/Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

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.

If you would like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please click on the "Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal" Poster. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please call 224-313-7000 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

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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

  • Flexible time off, starting at 80 hours paid time per year for full-time salaried employees

  • Company-paid holidays starting at 9 days per year and may be slightly higher by location

  • Wellbeing program & Employee Assistance Program

  • Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account

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

  • Paid Parental Leave

  • Retirement Savings Plan with company match

  • Tuition Reimbursement (dependent upon approval)

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

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