Packaging Technician
Job Posting for Packaging Technician at GSK
Posted Date: Apr 7 2022
New Hire Sign-on Bonus
$2,000 Day Shift or $3000 Night Shift
Starting at $20.00 an hour
Looking for an opportunity to grow your career and be a part of a growing consumer healthcare manufacturing facility? GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare in East Durham, NY is one of North America’s largest providers of specialty oral healthcare, including Sensodyne, Pronamel, paradontax, Polident, and Aquafresh.
The Packaging Technician is responsible for operating and maintaining packaging equipment which places our finished bulk product into finished packaging and shipping components.
GSK Oak Hill produces over 5 million tubes of toothpaste a week and the Packaging Technician role plays a key part in getting finished products ready for consumers and customers. Additionally, being a part of the Packaging Team allows the opportunity for career growth with a self-driven skills development program providing promotional opportunities both within the department and site.
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:
Ensures quality and safety of all manufacturing activities
Performs weighing of raw materials
Operation of various manufacturing and processing equipment, including large mixers, vacuum pumps, and manufacturing systems configured to aid in the automation process for making bulk products
Perform preventative maintenance to respective workspace
Cleaning manufacturing equipment, parts, and production area, focusing on safety and quality compliance
Ability to work with powders (i.e. Supersacks, Sack Tip) and prepare detergent solutions
Perform material dispensing and manual additional
Conduct inventory control processes of raw materials and products
Ability to perform basic operating computer system transactions associated with tasks listed above
Understand and comply with all pertinent operating procedures, work instructions, forms and documentation, and good manufacturing practice guidelines
Why you?
Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
High school diploma or GED
Ability to work 12 hour shifts, every other weekend off
Preferred Qualifications:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
Manufacturing or Production environment experience
Experience with equipment/machinery maintenance and changeovers
Why Consumer Healthcare?
Right now, we’re on an incredible journey as we prepare to become the first independent, 100% focused consumer healthcare company. We’re doing this at a time when the work we do has never mattered more. Better everyday health is about improving the health and wellness of the consumers that we touch every year – over a billion and a half of them – and it goes beyond products. It’s about truly helping people manage their health proactively in different ways as consumer needs evolve.
With category leading brands such as Sensodyne, Voltaren and Centrum, built on trusted science and human understanding, and combined with our passion, knowledge and expertise, we’re uniquely placed to do this and to grow a strong, successful business.
This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
In Consumer Healthcare we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone.
We’re striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your
authentic self belongs and thrives.
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