Process Technician
Novolex · Kalamazoo, MI
- Level
- Technician
- Team
- Process
- Degree
- Required (or equivalent experience)
- Experience asked
- 2+ years
- Industry
- Packaging
- Posted
- 17 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A technician-level process role at Novolex (packaging) in Kalamazoo, MI.
- They ask for
- 2+ years · degree required (or equivalent experience)
- Tools it names
- Root cause, Extrusion, Tooling
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of November 9, 2026
Manufacturing Technician roles in the US: typical posted base $59k–$91k.
Median of the low and high ends of 81 live postings that list pay, out of 1262 manufacturing technician openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Michigan plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 7 other live process postings in Michigan.
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (2+ vs 5+)
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Root cause 50%
- Team leadership 38%
- ✓ Tooling 25%
- Robotics 25%
- Injection molding 25%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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How to get in at this plant
Five moves over a week or two. The first one takes ten minutes.
- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Process team at Novolex
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- 2
Send a short, curious note
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- 3
Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Is the work mostly new product launches or sustaining existing lines?
- How much time do you spend on the floor versus at a desk?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
- 4
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If the call went well, ask whether they’d pass your résumé to the hiring manager. Send your résumé link, apply that day, and let them know.
- 5
Bring proof to the interview
One page of before-and-after numbers from projects you led: scrap, OEE, cycle time, cost. Plant managers hire on results.
This plant: Novolex in Kalamazoo
1 other open role at this site.
- Maintenance Specialist I · Reliability · Specialist
Process Technician at Novolex in other locations
Novolex lists this title in 2 places. Pick the plant you can get to.
Full description from NovolexAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Knowledge/Requirements
- ✓Good communication skills
- ✓Must be a Self-starter
- ✓Set up experience, 2 years preferred
- ✓Have Thermoforming tooling knowledge
- ✓Has operated thermoforming or extrusion equipment, Operator 4 or 5 old system, Operator 2 or 3 new system
- ✓Scheduling knowledge
- ✓Good Excel and project knowledge.
Requirements
Operating Machinery, Analyzing, and Solving Problems
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.
Formerly Pactiv Evergreen
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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
Shifts - Nights (4:50pm - 5:45am) and one flex shift
Position Summary: The Process Technician is the technical leader on shift for the assigned work team.
- •Core Competencies:
- •Integrity/Dependability
- •Building Trust
- •Customer Focus
- •Positive Outlook
Key Job Accountabilities
- •New Equipment Integration
- •Coordinates and facilitates the addition of new equipment or products into work team activities to ensure that teams are comfortable utilizing the equipment/product
- •Motivation and Engagement
- •Establishes a productive working environment that develops, supports, and motivates employees
- •Re-establish Flow
- •Prioritizes and allocates team resources, pulls defined help chains, and returns the team to the defined standard
- •Costing
- •Provides accurate and timely cost data for the new products and existing products that require changes. Maintains all estimating assumptions based on material and production line constraints.
- •Continuous Improvement Activities
- •Executes the Plan, Do, Check, Act process to assist in the continual improvement of results achieved through various tools, such as A3, Storyboards, War Room and SAPQ1/Q3
- •Project Coordination
- •Coordinates and facilitates assigned projects into work team activities.
Skills and Abilities
- •Leadership
- •Communication
- •Problem Solving
- •Decision Quality
- •Technical Credibility