# Packaging Operator

**Company**: Bayer
**Location**: Myerstown, Pennsylvania
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $23.32-$34.99
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Healthcare
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q152051

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## Description

At Bayer, we're visionaries driven to solve the world's toughest challenges and strive for a world where 'Health for all, Hunger for none' is a reality.

As a Packaging Operator on the 3rd shift (11:00 PM – 7:20 AM), you will be responsible for setting up, operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting manufacturing equipment.

**Your Tasks and Responsibilities**

- Plan and package high-quality products on time and in the right quantities in OTC and Nutritional factories at the Myerstown site, adhering to site policies, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and practices.

- Collaborate with multidisciplinary autonomous teams to drive operational efficiencies, adopt new technologies, and ensure continuous production process improvement.

- Embrace Dynamic Shared Ownership (DSO) principles and practices, following the VACC approach in day-to-day operations.

**Personal Development / Training / Autonomous Team Culture**

- Support the development of a diverse, inclusive talent pool, sharing and supporting each other to build expertise in an autonomous team environment.

- Take personal accountability for upskilling, training, and coaching needs, collaborating in the development of training programs to enhance the skills of operations cluster teams.

- Own personal training records, cross-train and coach other operators as needed, and motivate team members to continuously improve processes.

**Production Operations**

- Ensure a safe work environment by following all safety procedures, workplace standards, company guidelines, and ergonomic practices.

- Maintain, clean, and organise the work area using 5S practices and participate in safety improvement projects.

- Adopt technological advancements and production agility with a digitally enabled mindset to quickly react to changing customer and consumer needs.

**Quality & Compliance**

- Ensure adherence to SOPs, regulatory requirements, GMP standards, and industry best practices across all packaging processes.

- Perform in-process checks and comply with cGMP to ensure product quality.

**Cross-Functional Collaboration**

- Work closely with other packaging cluster team members, production maintenance, and support functions.

- Collaborate with Coaches and Operational Excellence team members in all continuous improvement initiatives.

**Other Duties**

- Complete other duties as assigned.

**Requirements**

- High School Diploma or GED

- Experience working in a Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) or Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) environment

- Demonstrated ability to work safely in a production environment with frequent production schedule changes

## Skills

### Required
- Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
- manufacturing equipment operation
- troubleshooting
- teamwork
- communication

### Nice to have
- Associate degree with Technical/Industrial Manufacturing
- motorized & non-motorized material handling equipment experience
- regulatory arena knowledge (GMP, OSHA, EPA, Bayer standards)

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