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The Assistant Machine Operator supports extrusion or press operations at Amcor’s Bowling Green facility, helping produce packaging to customer and manufacturing specifications. The role includes preparing materials, monitoring product quality, adjusting equipment, completing records, and supporting safe, efficient production. It follows a 2-2-3 schedule with 12-hour day or night shifts. Previous manufacturing experience is preferred.
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AF Bowling Green (BOKY) KY
Full time
REQ_97871
Job Description
Role Overview: Unpack Your Potential
Join Amcor as an Assistant Machine Operator and play a key role in producing high-quality packaging that makes a global impact. You’ll ensure safety, quality standards, and contribute to a team focused on collaboration and continuous improvement.
Schedule
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2-2-3 Schedule: 12-hour shifts,
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Nights, 6:45p.m. - 7:00 a.m.,
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Days, 6: 45a.m – 7: 00p.m
Compensation & Benefits: Value, Recognized
We reward great work with:
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Pay: Starting $17.00 & up + $1.50/hour night shift premium
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401(k): Dollar-for-dollar match up to 7%
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Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on day one
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Paid time off and holidays
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Growth and development opportunities
Job Description: Extrusion Assistant
What you’ll do:
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Support operations in becoming World Class in all aspects of the business, beginning with Safety.
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Run all jobs in accordance with customer specification, manufacturing specification, and standard operating procedures.
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Organize, record, and ensure proper storage of resin.
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Adjust machine specifications, pressures, and equipment for each job
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Ensure all appropriate paperwork is filled out accurately and completely.
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Work with and direct the extrusion assistant and other team mates to minimize job change-over and down time.
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Train and direct the extrusion assistant to become efficient at all the required assistant duties defined in each level of the assistant training matrix on time.
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While also knowing and understanding the role in product safety.\
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Comply with all 5S and WCM initiatives (Cross Training, moving to the work)
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All other duties as assigned by supervisor or management
Job Description: Press Assistant
What you’ll do:
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Prepare inks, substrates, plates, cylinders, gears, etc. for scheduled job.
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Assist Press Operator in monitoring the product to ensure quality
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Knowledge and ability to perform make-readies.
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Participate in the operation of the press with the ability to operate if needed.
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Order, Charge, and Return raw materials to each job as needed.
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Complete necessary daily paperwork.
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Complete 5S/housekeeping logs.
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Follow and be held accountable for adherence to all of the company policies and procedures as they are outlined and defined.
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Remove and identify all scrap except flying splices before master rolls get moved to WIP area
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All other duties as assigned by Manufacturing Supervisor and/or Management
What we want from you: Lead the Pack
Preferred qualifications:
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Previous manufacturing experienc
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Knowledgeable and able to understand a computer and program
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Excellent verbal and written communication skills
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Good organizational and interpersonal skills
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Ability to interact effectively and professionally with others in a team environment
Physical Requirements
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Ability to lift up to 50-60 lbs
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Willing and able to stand and walk for a 12 hour shift
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Frequent reaching, bending, stooping, kneeling, and twisting
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Frequent use of wrist and hands
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Frequent stepping up and down from platforms
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Reasonable accommodations will be considered on a case-by-case basis
Why Amcor?
Be part of a global leader while working in a supportive, team-driven environment. At Amcor, your contributions are recognized, your growth is encouraged, and your work makes a difference.
Our Expectations
We expect our people to be guided by The Amcor Way and demonstrate our Values every day to enable the business to win. We are winning when:
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Our people are engaged and developing as part of a high-performing Amcor team
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Our customers grow and prosper from Amcor’s quality, service, and innovation
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Our investors benefit from Amcor’s consistent growth and superior returns
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The environment is better off because of Amcor’s leadership and products
Accelerate the possible by joining a winning Amcor team that’s transforming the packaging industry and improving lives around the world.
At Amcor, we unpack possibility through our innovative and responsible packaging to provide solutions that benefit our customers, our people and our planet. More than 10,000 consumers worldwide encounter our products every second and rely on us for safe access to food, medicine and other goods. We value their trust by making safety our guiding principle. It’s our core value and integral to how we do business.
Beyond this core principle, our shared values and behaviors unite us as we work together to elevate customers, shape lives and protect the future. We champion our customers and help them succeed. We play to win – adapting quickly in an everchanging world – and make smart choices to safeguard our business, our communities and the people we serve for generations to come. And we invest in our world-class team, empowering our colleagues to unpack their potential, because we believe when our people grow, so does our business.
To learn more about playing for Team Amcor, visit www.amcor.com I LinkedIn I Glassdoor I Facebook I YouTube
Equal Opportunity Employer/Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity
Amcor is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
If you would like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please click on the "Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal" Poster . If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please call 224-313-7000 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
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Benefits
When you join Amcor, you will have access to a comprehensive benefits and compensation package that includes:
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Medical, dental and vision plans
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Paid time off, starting at 40 hours per year for full-time hourly employees, may vary by location
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Company-paid holidays starting at 8 days per year and may vary by location
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Wellbeing programs & Employee Assistance Program
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Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
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Life insurance, AD&D, short-term & long-term disability, and voluntary benefits
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Paid Parental Leave
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Retirement Savings Plan with company match
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Tuition Reimbursement (dependent upon approval)
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Discretionary bonus program (initial eligibility dependent upon hire date)
About Amcor
Amcor is the global leader in developing and producing responsible consumer packaging and dispensing solutions across a variety of materials for nutrition, health, beauty and wellness categories. Our global product innovation and sustainability expertise enables us to solve packaging challenges around the world every day, producing a range of flexible packaging, rigid packaging, cartons and closures that are more sustainable, functional and appealing for our customers and their consumers. We are guided by our purpose of elevating customers, shaping lives and protecting the future. Supported by a commitment to safety, over 75,000 people generate $23 billion in annualized sales from operations that span over 400 locations in more than 40 countries. NYSE: AMCR; ASX: AMC
www.amcor.com | LinkedIn | YouTube
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How this job compares
Set against the 1,085 open Machine Operator jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$17/hr
- US median$21–24/hr613 hourly ranges
This rate, $17/hr, is 24% below the US median midpoint ($23/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Machine Operator hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 14 open Machine Operator jobs in Kentucky and 1,085 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- Swagelok68 open
- ManpowerGroup66 open
- Amcor (this employer)53 open
- Experience
- Machine Operator postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (367 postings).
- Education
- 2 of the 1,085 open Machine Operator jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 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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