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Extrusion Process Technician

Novolex
Bedford, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 4/10/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/27/2027

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

 

 

Novolex, Where Packaging Innovation Meets Career Opportunity! We are looking for you!!!

 

Competitive starting pay rate $38.24 to $49.17

 

Extrusion Process Technician available shift 7:00PM-7:00AM 2-2-3 Schedule

 

Summary:

 

The Hourly Process Tech will guide the overall team’s mission in productivity, safety, quality, operations, continuous improvement and team effectiveness.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Assist with performing changeovers with minimal downtime
  • Ensure all products are running at standard production rate for assigned shift
  • Update, review and provide recommendations to plant Process Engineer for process sheet updates
  • Develop, implement and execute programs to improve overall product quality and line efficiencies.
  • Ability to operate and troubleshoot processes and equipment at an elevated level to resolve complex issues with supporting plant maintenance, automation, and tooling teams

Required Qualifications:

 

  • Minimum 5 years relevant experience (or similar combination of education and experience).
  • Experience in plastics processing, including forming and extrusion required
  • Experience working with machinery
  • Understanding of tooling, machining, material flow practices for extrusion and thermoforming
  • Strong interpersonal skills to be able to train, communicate, and lead effectively
  • Ability to work a 12 hours COP shift

Preferred Qualifications:

 

  • Two or four year technical degree or certification
  • Project team coordinator experience
  • Experience with FEA (finite element analysis) and quality gauges to support a zero part defect environment.

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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.

 

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