Packaging Technician (VX)

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Job description

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 Americas largest providers of speciality 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 equivalent
Ability to work 12 hour shifts on either days or nights, 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 GSK?
GSK offers a very competitive starting salary rate of pay with shift differential incentive for 2nd and 3rd shift PLUS each year, you have the opportunity to receive a bonus based on the achievement business measures.

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture.

These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

Agile and distributed decision-making using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk.
Managing individual and team performance.
Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.
Implementing change initiatives and leading change.
Sustaining energy and well-being, building resilience in teams.
Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning both internally and externally.
Developing people and building a talent pipeline.
Translating strategy into action - a compelling narrative, motivating others, setting objectives and delegation.
Building strong relationships and collaboration, managing trusted stakeholder relationships internally and externally.
Budgeting and forecasting, commercial and financial acumen
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