SENIOR MACHINE OPERATOR

Description

Job Summary: The professional will operate packaging production machines, controlling parameters, ensuring quality, and handling maintenance and production recordkeeping. Key Highlights: 1. Opportunity for continuous professional and personal development 2. Work environment grounded in family values, trust, and security 3. Culture that values initiative, curiosity, and teamwork Discover who we are! Be curious. Have the desire to expand your own boundaries, learn continuously, and discover new worlds for yourself. Sounds appealing? For this kind of pioneering spirit, our ALPLA Academy offers the perfect environment for developing each employee — as a professional and as a person — with offerings tailored for specialists across various fields. Because a pioneering spirit constantly needs new incentives. Family values, trust, and security are highly important to us. At ALPLA, no one needs to worry about balancing family and work. Our employees face challenges as a team. Together, we experiment with new solutions and grow beyond ourselves. Across all ALPLA departments, you can continue developing, demonstrate initiative, and live your curiosity — in short, become part of the Pioneer Family. Like a family, we value open communication. We take responsibility and work together to make the future sustainable. No matter where: ALPLA values local roots. We aim to create the distinctive ALPLA family loyalty feeling worldwide. **Responsibilities and Duties** * Start up and shut down (start\-up) packaging production machines and control process parameters; * Monitor the control panel, verifying and comparing against machine start\-up specifications; * Operate blow molding machines, visually inspecting produced parts to ensure product quality and specification compliance; * Perform Parison control: material control, weight distribution, ground material levels, Parison lengths, and others; * Control and maintain bottle quality in accordance with specified requirements, performing pre\-established tests per the PIT inspection plan; * Prepare machines for mold/color change and support the Changeover and Blow Molding Mechanic teams; * Ensure production of Production Orders, meeting correct quantities and agreed specifications; * Accurately record produced goods and issues encountered during the shift; * Identify scrap material generated on their machine and report this information to their immediate supervisor for waste control tracking; * Inform their immediate supervisor of any irregularities found, including shortages of supplies/raw materials; **Requirements and Qualifications** * Completed high school education * Technical course in Plastics preferred (completed or currently enrolled) **Additional Information** * Medical Assistance * Dental Assistance * Partnerships with gyms, pharmacies, and optical stores * Life Insurance * Meal Allowance * Transportation Allowance Our family provides innovative plastic packaging solutions and has been internationally successful in this field for over 70 years. This success story is, above all, the story of our employees: through individual motivation, boundless enthusiasm, and ever-growing expertise, we advance together every day. As an Austrian family-owned company, we offer a stable foundation for growth: reliable relationships and long-term thinking are core values of our corporate philosophy. Mutual appreciation comes naturally to us. Thus, we move forward engaged, together, with courage, and overcoming challenges. Commitment and teamwork drive continual progress at ALPLA.