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Set Up Operator-Weekend Shift

Avantor
United States, Kentucky, Paris
May 16, 2025

The Opportunity:

Avantor is looking for an eager and proactive Set Up Operator to optimize our Performance Materials team, delivering results against some of the most complex business and technology initiatives. This role will be a full-time position based out of our Paris, KY facility. You will have the opportunity to prepare, setup, weigh, package, fill, and label bulk materials in accordance with cGMP, procedures. This also includes operating production scales, including verification and calibrations, and handling hazardous materials using all appropriate and mandatory safety gear. If you have experience working with chemicals or operating pallet jacks - let's talk! Avantor's Dry Department is part of our Performance Materials business unit. This team supports the innovation and growth objectives of major industries across the globe by helping with the integration of new technology solutions into their processes and operations. What we're looking for:
  • Education: High school diploma or GED required
  • Experience: 1-2 years of mechanical or electrical experience in either an industrial or educational setting
  • Work Schedule: Friday-Sunday 6am-6pm
Qualifications:
  • Manufacturing experience
  • Experience handling chemicals
  • Experience with PIV such as pallet jacks and forklift
  • Strong organizational, prioritization, and problem analysis skills
  • Strong interpersonal communication skills including the ability to read, write, speak and understand the English language
  • Strong basic math skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division)
  • Critical decision-making skills, creativity, multi-tasking ability
  • RCRA Training
How you will thrive and create an impact:
  • Adhere to all safety precautions and PPE (personal protection equipment) requirements while completing the assigned duties in a safe manner.
  • Responsible for ensuring the lines are set-up and running to the production schedule in accordance to the work orders Understand line and pump configuration and be able to clean and inspect lines as well as perform line change-overs as needed.
  • Perform preventative maintenance on equipment and ensure that items that fail checks are addressed.
  • Stage and unload railcars and tank trucks.
  • Take bulk samples from both railcars and tank trucks and deliver to QC lab.
  • Take particle count samples and run particle count tests.
  • Prepare customer trucks to include sealing, sampling, and associated paperwork. Inspect and close MPO's.
  • Keep accurate production records.
  • Collaborates with Supervisors and Maintenance Personnel, to determine equipment set-up and operations.
  • Monitor and assist assigned packaging operators.
  • Works with the Quality Assurance Department to understand, recognize and rectify quality issues. Has the authority and responsibility to stop the line and notify QA of a contamination event.
  • Ability to perform the duties of both a packaging operator and material handler.
  • Comply with all cGMP requirements.
  • Manage hazardous and universal waste according to local, state and federal regulations.
  • Performs other duties as assigned with or without accommodation
  • Demonstrated mechanical ability.
  • Strong organizational, prioritization, and problem analysis skills
  • Strong interpersonal communication skills including the ability to read, write, speak and understand the English language
  • Strong basic math skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division)
  • Critical decision-making skills, creativity, multi-tasking ability
  • RCRA Training

Disclaimer:
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this position. Avantor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Why Avantor?

Dare to go further in your career. Join our global team of 14,000+ associates whose passion for discovery and determination to overcome challenges relentlessly advances life-changing science.

The work we do changes people's lives for the better. It brings new patient treatments and therapies to market, giving a cancer survivor the chance to walk his daughter down the aisle. It enables medical devices that help a little boy hear his mom's voice for the first time. Outcomes such as these create unlimited opportunities for you to contribute your talents, learn new skills and grow your career at Avantor.

We are committed to helping you on this journey through our diverse, equitable and inclusive culture which includes learning experiences to support your career growth and success. At Avantor, dare to go further and see how the impact of your contributions set science in motion to create a better world. Apply today!

EEO Statement:

We are an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer and VEVRAA Federal Contractor. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state/province, or local law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at recruiting@avantorsciences.comand let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.

For more information about equal employment opportunity protections, please view the Know Your Rights poster.

3rd Party Non-Solicitation Policy:

By submitting candidates without having been formally assigned on and contracted for a specific job requisition by Avantor, or by failing to comply with the Avantor recruitment process, you forfeit any fee on the submitted candidates, regardless of your usual terms and conditions. Avantor works with a preferred supplier list and will take the initiative to engage with recruitment agencies based on its needs and will not be accepting any form of solicitation.

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