Injection Molding Cell Operator

Step onto the production floor where precision, safety, and teamwork drive every decision. As our Injection Molding Cell Operator, you’ll start up and dial in molding and packaging equipment, keep lines running at peak performance, and uphold strict safety and food safety standards while producing caps, lids, and related packaging components used by consumers every day.

What your day looks like

• Power up machinery, set parameters, and fine-tune equipment to enhance throughput and product quality.
• Run molding, packaging, and auxiliary equipment exactly as specified by work instructions and standardized work.
• Diagnose minor issues, escalate maintenance needs promptly, and minimize unplanned downtime.
• Conduct quality checks, complete records accurately, and alert your supervisor about nonconformances.
• Follow all safety, health, and food safety protocols; keep your area clean, organized, and 5S-ready.
• Package to work-order specifications and verify labels, counts, and documentation.
• Use standardized work to reduce changeover time and maintain steady output.
• Reference and understand SDS and other regulated material information.
• Communicate effectively at shift change to ensure seamless crew handoffs.
• Immediately notify appropriate personnel about quality, equipment, or safety concerns.
• Perform other duties as assigned to support team objectives.

Safety leadership

• Champion a speak-up culture—identify hazards, propose improvements, and help implement solutions.
• Spot safety gaps and take initiative to correct them.
• Adhere to plant safety rules, housekeeping expectations, and 5S practices.
• Recognize, report, and help remove unsafe conditions.
• Promote ownership and accountability across the team.

Food safety commitments

• Verify that maintenance and production activities meet food safety and quality standards.
• Follow company food safety and quality assurance procedures; complete all documentation precisely.
• Sanitize all product-contact surfaces after work is completed.
• Report any incident, product, or process failure that may affect food safety and file the required incident report.

Skills and mindset we value

• High School Diploma or GED preferred.
• Prior machine operation experience in manufacturing preferred.
• Comfort following written and verbal work instructions.
• Basic understanding of Quality Control concepts.
• Familiarity with hand tools and safe use.
• Knowledge of our product lines and basic computer/scanning tools.

Physical requirements

• Ability to sit and/or stand, communicate in person and by phone, and use hands/arms to operate controls and reach.
• Comfort with prolonged standing/walking for up to 12-hour periods.
• Capability to stoop, kneel, bend, crouch, and lift up to 50 pounds.

Live our values

• Integrity – Always do what’s right—especially when no one is watching.
• Value Creation – Start with safety; deliver long-term value for customers, colleagues, shareholders, suppliers, communities.
• Accountability – Own outcomes; say what you’ll do and do what you say.
• Entrepreneurial – Think like an owner; be curious, improve relentlessly, and anticipate customer needs.
• Respectful and Friendly – Treat everyone with dignity; welcome diverse perspectives; lead with a smile.
• Change – Seek profitable innovation; challenge the status quo to stay relevant and deliver superior results.

About MRP Solutions

MRP Solutions is a leading provider of high-quality injection-molded closures, jars, and recyclable packaging components. We pair deep packaging expertise with a consultative approach to uncover customer needs and tailor smarter, safer, and more flexible solutions that reduce costs and speed time to market. By innovating with our partners—distributors and manufacturers—we deliver packaging with purpose and help our customers grow.

Equal opportunity and accommodations

MRP Solutions is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring or promotion based on race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, transgender status), national origin, age, disability, medical condition, marital or protected veteran status or any other basis or characteristic prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law. Consistent with the obligations of state and federal law, MRP Solutions will make reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities. Any employee who needs reasonable accommodation should contact Human Resources.

Technical proficiency

• Equipment Troubleshooting
• Industrial Cleaning Equipment Operation
• Electrical Systems & Diagnostics (Heavy Equipment)
• Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
• Equipment Repair & Maintenance
• Plastic Extrusion Experience
• Binding Experience