**Job Title: Utility Operator** **Job Description** As a Utility Operator, you will play a crucial role in supporting machine operators by ensuring materials are accurately mixed, handled, and packaged according to specifications. Your responsibilities will include reading work orders, loading and unloading materials, maintaining packaging supplies, and assisting with various operational tasks to facilitate efficient production processes. **Responsibilities** + Read work orders or follow oral instructions to determine materials to be mixed for each run. + Load and unload materials onto or from pallets, racks, and shelves using forklifts or by hand. + Load resins into blenders, grinders, dryers, and hoppers manually or using a vacuum system. + Maintain and prepare packaging supplies. + Package all finished products ensuring correct packaging material, labels, and details per customer specifications. + Handle materials and control inventory using barcode scanners. + Assist operators with stringing lines, taking rolls off machines, roll data entry, roll changing, changing trim, mounting unwound rolls, cutovers, and cleaning the systems. + Assist warehouse manager with monthly inventory. + Maintain confidentiality of information such as formulas, supplier names, materials, process conditions, and setup information. + Perform other relevant duties to assist machine operators, including moving boxes and unloading trucks. **Essential Skills** + Reliability and attention to detail. + Ability to work in a fast-paced environment. + Ability to take direction from multiple supervisors. **Additional Skills & Qualifications** + High school diploma preferred but not required. + Prior manufacturing experience is not required. **Why Work Here?** Employees enjoy competitive rewards programs, including 401k matching and BRAVO rewards. The company values career advancement, offering tuition reimbursement and encouraging personal development with the motto 'The More you Learn, the More you Earn.' With a strong focus on work-life balance and employee recognition, the company prioritizes promoting from within, as evidenced by 85% of supervisors being promoted internally. **Work Environment** The work takes place in a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility with industry-leading extrusion capabilities. Employees work in a clean room environment, adhering to a dress code that includes wearing hair nets and hard hats, which are provided. For candidates with facial hair, beard guards are required. The shifts are structured with rotating schedules, including day and night shifts, providing flexibility in work hours. **Job Type & Location** This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Greenfield, Massachusetts. **Pay and Benefits** The pay range for this position is $19.50 - $21.50/hr. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave) **Workplace Type** This is a fully onsite position in Greenfield,MA. **Application Deadline** This position is anticipated to close on Aug 19, 2025. **About Aerotek:** We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow. Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.