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Injection Molding Operator

Pactiv Evergreen
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 12/20/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/19/2026

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.

Responsibilities:

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

Compensation:

  • Competitive starting pay rate $21.85-$25.05

Injection Molding Operator available shift: 7:00PM to 7:00AM (Nights)

Job Duties:

  • Operates and maintains multiple injection molding lines, with ability to run all lines/packaging equipment.
  • Troubleshoots and repairs lines to ensure minimal down time.
  • Ensures production records are maintained in a timely and accurate fashion.
  • Ensures quality requirements are met including perfect case audit, docket info, ZR verification, visual inspection.
  • Trains newer employees in line operation and paperwork.

Qualifications

  • 3 years of experience in machine operating or maintenance experience within a manufacturing environment
  • Preferred experience: 1 year machine operating or maintenance within injection molding
  • Manual Dexterity
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Detailed record keeping per the prescribed frequency
  • Hand/eye coordination
  • Analytical skills
  • Math Skills (calculators to determine and record production data)
  • Basic troubleshooting skills to resolve minor machine issues relating to its operation
  • Understanding of production measurement tools such as level, etc.
  • Knowledge of product quality standards
  • Principles of Thermoforming machines

Qualifications:

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, 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

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