Production Technician​/Tech

Owens-Illinois, Inc. is hiring a Production Technician for their Bowling Green, KY facility. The role involves operating and maintaining inspection and packaging equipment, conducting quality tests, and ensuring safety and teamwork. Candidates should have 3-4 years of manufacturing experience, be able to work shifts, and possess basic computer skills. The position emphasizes a culture of innovation, safety, and personal development.
Position: Production Technician (Tech 2)

At O-I, we love glass and we’re proud to be one of the leading producers of glass bottles and jars around the globe. We are leveraging innovation and technology to drive expansion and meet our customers’ growing needs in a sustainable manner. Our new state-of-the-art facility in Bowling Green, Kentucky, is enabled by advanced team culture, technologies and innovative processes leading glass manufacturing into the future.

We have formed a team united by the same passion for culture, innovation and technology, ready to learn and grow in a working environment enhancing safety, accountability, integrity and teamwork principles. Join us in our new manufacturing facility with future expansion planned!

We’re building a team of passionate individuals who:
• Act intentionally to ensure the safety and wellbeing of themselves and others
• Listen and evolve with the team, supporting teammates in the pursuit of collective goals and performance
• Take initiative to drive positive change, accept individual and team responsibilities, meet customer commitments and performance objectives
• Respect teammates and embrace diversity; emphasize doing the right thing even when no one is looking, resulting in a high level of trust
• Embrace opportunities to learn and grow and invest in themselves and others
Job Description

ABOUT THE ROLE:

This role will be on-shift and responsible for the operation of Lehr through inspection equipment.
• Cleaning & 5S of inspection area, line observation and reporting
• Interpretation and validation of inspection data
• Hoist and forklift operation
• Hot end inspection equipment setup, job change, and operation, including troubleshooting and data analysis
• Job change and set up for packaging equipment, including palletizer, carton, case packer, and stretch wrapper
• Basic troubleshooting, repair, and maintenance for packaging equipment, including palletizer, carton, case packer, stretch wrapper, and inject coder
• Basic troubleshooting, repair, and maintenance for inspection equipment and conveyors
• Ware testing, including challenge sample testing, fingernail tests, packed ware tests, held ware tests, scratch tests
• Set up of lehr curves and annealing checks
• Coating equipment reading and checks (atomization and temperature)
Qualifications

About You:
• High School Diploma or GED required
• 3-4 years of manufacturing or production experience preferred
• Ability to set up and operate equipment
• Familiarity with high-speed industrial production lines
• Basic computer knowledge to include experience with MS Office or similar desktop related applications
• You are a good communicator and understand that teamwork is an important key to success
• You have ability to work to a shift schedule (day and night shift, 12 hours)
• Ability to occasionally perform physically demanding job tasks:
• Lift or carry