Tooling Technician - 1st Shift

Great Northern Twin Cities, 8600 Wyoming Avenue North, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, United States of America Req #454
Friday, September 20, 2024

Tooling Technician – 1st Shift

 

Why Great Northern

Established in 1962, Great Northern is a local, privately owned paper-based packaging manufacturer with a long history of providing secure, stable, and meaningful positions.  You will experience a collaborative team-first, safe, clean, enjoyable, and predictable workplace where team members support and care for one another. 

 

Our team members produce sustainable and eco-friendly products that are supplied to national brands that impact people's day-to-day lives. 

 

Great Northern is committed to making a difference in the lives of our team members, customers, and the communities in which we live and work.  Many of our team members were referred by their friends and families who are already a part of the Great Northern team.

 

Position Summary

Under general supervision, the Tooling Technician is responsible for planning, securing and inventorying the appropriate tooling to support the manufacturing build schedule. In addition, periodically will be responsible for other miscellaneous task such as assisting machine operations. Tooling Technician will be required to use a variety of material handling equipment, such as pallets jacks, automated pallet walkies, electrical man lifts as well as miscellaneous hand tools in a continuous production or processing operation. The tasks have substantial variety and complexity. The scope of the Tooling Technician includes, but is not limited to: identifying tooling and printing requirements in support of the production schedule. Physically locating the specified tooling, delivering the tooling to the specific work centers, retrieving the previously used tooling and physically returning to inventory. Periodically assisting in other related tooling task, such as repair, identifying non-conformance tooling, designating rework and assisting in obsolescence and disposal. In addition, periodically, would be expected to act in accordance with a Machine Helper. 

All job responsibilities are to be performed in strict adherence with the Company’s Mission/Values Statement and in accordance with established standards for external customers as well as internal customers.

 

Pay/Schedule

  • $24/hour - $28/hour depending on experience and qualifications
  • 1st Shift: Monday – Friday from 6:15am until 2:45pm  

 

The Benefits of Great Northern

  • Competitive 401K match and a historically generous profit-sharing retirement savings contribution
  • Paid time off accrued during your first year of employment
  • Medical plan options are available to provide flexibility in choosing the one that best suits your individual and family needs
  • Clean, comfortable breakroom
  • Opportunities to advance your career and compensation level
  • Flexible overtime opportunities when available and/or needed
  • Annual merit increases as well as market benchmarking to ensure competitive wages

 

Opportunities for Growth

You will have the opportunity to learn new skills and acquire new knowledge that can be applied to grow into new positions with higher pay.  Furthermore, you can grow your career with Great Northern through advancement opportunities available at our facilities both locally and nationally.

 

Expectation

To be successful your teammates will depend on you to have pride in your work, be on time, work safely, work effectively with others, be optimistic, take ownership of your responsibilities, and look for continuous improvement opportunities.

 

This is a safety sensitive position
We are a Tobacco free campus

Great Northern is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Great Northern is an equal opportunity at will employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of age, race, religion, color, disability, sex, sexual orientation or national origin.

Other details

  • Pay Type Hourly
Location on Google Maps
  • Great Northern Twin Cities, 8600 Wyoming Avenue North, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, United States of America