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Job overview
Kelly Services is seeking a Manufacturing Associate for a manufacturing client in Lodi, California. The role involves setting up and operating injection molding and packaging equipment, maintaining equipment, and supporting production quality and goals. The schedule is night shift, Monday through Friday, with daytime training for one month. The posting requires a high school diploma or equivalent and 1–2 years of related manufacturing or production experience.
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Full job description
Think the best job opportunities are far away? Think again! Great opportunities are right here in your backyard. Kelly® is seeking a Manufacturing Associate to work with a premier manufacturing client in Lodi, CA. Let us help you grow in your career while being a vital part of your community.
Pay Rate: $25-28 per hour
Shift: Night Monday-Friday
Will be required to train during the day for 1 month.
Why You Should Apply to be a Manufacturing Associate:
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Work with a leading organization at the forefront of healthcare innovation.
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Be part of a team dedicated to advancing fast, accurate diagnostic testing.
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Gain hands-on experience in cutting-edge manufacturing processes.
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Enjoy a safe, supportive, and growth-oriented workplace culture.
What’s a Typical Day as a Manufacturing Associate? You’ll Be:
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Setting up molds on operating injection molding machines and making precise adjustments to auxiliary equipment to meet production requirements.
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Operating and maintaining manufacturing and packaging equipment, including chillers, mold heaters, conveyors, and Yushin robots.
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Removing molds from machines, performing preventative maintenance, inspecting and replacing hoses, and ensuring proper water circulation through molds by connecting hoses and setting valves.
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Collaborating with team members to ensure production goals are met and quality standards are maintained.
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Reporting to the Manufacturing Supervisor or Production Manager.
This Job Might Be an Outstanding Fit If You:
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Have a high school diploma or equivalent (required).
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Bring 1-2 years of related work experience in a manufacturing or production environment (required).
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Possess experience with auxiliary equipment such as chillers, mold heaters, conveyors, and Yushin robots.
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Have familiarity with crane operations (preferred, but not required).
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Demonstrate strong attention to detail, mechanical aptitude, and a commitment to workplace safety.
Helping you discover what’s next in your career is our priority, so let’s get to work. Apply to be a Manufacturing Associate today!
As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Please note: The following benefits reflect Kelly's general offerings. Eligibility may vary by assignment, location, and job type. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Click here (https://www.mykelly.com/help-support-working-with-kelly-us/#Benefits) for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.
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About Kelly
Work changes everything. And at Kelly, we’re obsessed with where it can take you. To us, it’s about more than simply accepting your next job opportunity. It’s the fuel that powers every next step of your life. It’s the ripple effect that changes and improves everything for your family, your community, and the world. Which is why, here at Kelly, we are dedicated to providing you with limitless opportunities to enrich your life—just ask the 300,000 people we employ each year.
Kelly is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants regardless of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status, and we take affirmative action to recruit, employ, and advance qualified individuals with disabilities and protected veterans in the workforce. Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to the Kelly Human Resource Knowledge Center. Kelly complies with the requirements of California’s state and local Fair Chance laws. A conviction does not automatically bar individuals from employment. Kelly participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.
Kelly may use AI-powered tools during the recruitment and hiring process. For full details, including how Kelly uses AI, your rights, and how to request a reasonable accommodation, visit the Recruitment Artificial Intelligence Notice (https://www.kellyservices.com/hubfs/myKelly/Resources/Employment\_Policies/Recruitment-Artificial-Intelligence-Notice.pdf?hsLang=en) .
Kelly Services is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We welcome, value, and embrace diversity at all levels and are committed to building a team that is inclusive of a variety of backgrounds, communities, perspectives, and abilities. At Kelly, we believe that the more inclusive we are, the better services we can provide. Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to Kelly’s Human Resource Knowledge Center. Kelly complies with the requirements of California’s state and local Fair Chance laws. A conviction does not automatically bar individuals from employment.
How this job compares
Set against the 3,424 open Manufacturing jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$25–28/hr
- California median$25–35/hr158 hourly ranges
- US median$22–25/hr1,017 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $26.50/hr, is 12% below the California median midpoint ($30/hr) — in the middle half of Manufacturing hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 426 open Manufacturing jobs in California and 3,424 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Anduril36 open
- Anduril Industries32 open
- SpaceX25 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Manufacturing postings that state a minimum ask for (median 4 years, across 1,888 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 1,822 of the 3,424 open Manufacturing jobs (53%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 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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