Packing Associate
Kinston, NCFull-time$15.91–17.05/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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Job overview
Novolex is hiring a Packing Associate at its Kinston, North Carolina facility. The role packs cartons, cups, and lids into cases, inspects products for defects, and packs products to customer specifications. The position is full-time on the third shift, from midnight to 8 a.m., with a starting pay rate of $15.91–$17.05 per hour depending on experience.
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Full job description
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
Packing Associate
Kinston, NC
Compensation Includes
- Starting Pay Rate of $15.91 - 17.05/hour depending on experience - paid weekly
Available Shift
- 3rd: 12am - 8am
Responsibilties
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Packs sleeves of cartons, cups and lids into cases, may be required to bag sleeves or place in packing trays prior to cases
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Inspects product for defects. Notifies operator or supervisor if defects are found
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Keeps work area clean
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Performs other related duties to contribute to the success of the operation as assigned by supervision
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Pack product to customer specifications
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Performs other related duties to contribute to the success of the operations as assigned by supervision
Qualifications
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Employee is required to stand while performing the duties of this job
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Job requires constant light lifting up to 10 lbs
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Required to climb one step to feeder platform when feeding machines
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Good hand-eye coordination is critical to produce high speed work
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Good color vision required to distinguish printed shades/colors
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Ability to understand and meet continuously increasing performance objectives
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Strong verbal and written communication skills
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Ability to work independently and effectively with little to no supervision
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Positive work attitude and willingness to cooperate
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Ability to work in a team environment
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.
Novolex is committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices, including but not limited to selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, handicap or disability, genetics, citizenship status, service member or veteran status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law. Any individual who, because of his or her disability, needs an accommodation in connection with an aspect of the Company's application process should contact [email protected] .
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Job Locations US-NC-Kinston
ID 2026-36569
Category Operations
Position Type Full Time
Pay Type Hourly
How this job compares
Set against the 3,030 open Manufacturing jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$15.91–17.05/hr
- North Carolina median$20/hr27 hourly ranges
- US median$22–25/hr954 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $16.48/hr, is 18% below the North Carolina median midpoint ($20/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Manufacturing hourly ranges in North Carolina.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 123 open Manufacturing jobs in North Carolina and 3,030 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in North Carolina
- Fujifilm10 open
- Cummins Inc.9 open
- Siemens8 open
- Experience
- Manufacturing postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 7 years (1,606 postings).
- Education
- 660 of the 3,030 open Manufacturing jobs (22%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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