Plastics Operator
| Location: | St. Louis |
| Department: | Molding |
| Listing Date: | 2026-06-19 |
| Position: | Plastics Operator |
- Monitor and operate molding machines and support equipment, ensuring quality standards are met, raw material and finished goods are properly staged.
- Maintain cleanliness and safety of machines and work area.
- Inspect finished parts visually and with various gauges, fixtures and scales.
- Fold, tape and label packing cartons for assembled parts, sealing and palletizing finished boxes.
- Restart machines as required.
- Communicate machine malfunctions, maintenance needs, etc. to supervisor and co-workers.
- Operate grinders to remove runners.
- Reworking and sorting of rejected/defective products.
- Use of bar code scanners to track raw materials, work in process, and finished goods.
- Possess knowledge of and comply with SQF procedures, as appropriate.
- Maintain plant cleanliness, organization, sanitation, and follow all procedures to maintain food packaging safety in designated work areas.
Marginal Functions
Assist in physical inventories, counting assigned materials.
Physical/Visual Activities or Demands: Physical/visual activities or demands that are commonly associated with the performance of the functions of this job.
- Standing, walking, sitting, reaching, pushing, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing.
- Clarity of vision at 20 inches or less and 20 feet or more with peripheral vision and the ability to bring objects into sharp focus to judge distance and space relationships and to identify and distinguish colors.
- Medium work - exert 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or 10 to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
Environmental/Atmospheric Conditions: Environmental and atmospheric conditions commonly associated with the performance of the functions of this job.
Position Qualification Requirements
Education: Equivalent to a basic high school education.
Experience: Over three months of experience in a similar or related position.
Skills and Abilities which may be representative but not all inclusive of those commonly associated with this position:
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
- Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standard situations.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide all units of measure, performing the four operations with like common and decimal fractions.
- Ability to interpret bar graphs.
- Ability to perform arithmetic operations.
- Ability to read safety rules and instructions in the use and maintenance of equipment.
- Ability to read simple written instructions.
- Ability to speak clearly and distinctly using correct pronunciation and variations in word order.
Machines, Tools, Equipment and Work Aids which may be representative but not all inclusive of those commonly associated with this position:
Plastic injection molding equipment, digital scales, grinder.
License(s)/Certification(s) Required: HMIS training.
