Job Description

Overview

Eastman is a global specialty materials company founded in 1920, producing a wide range of products used daily. The Packager role involves operating and maintaining production equipment safely and efficiently, performing preventive maintenance, and ensuring quality assurance in the packaging process.

Responsibilities

  • Perform work associated with receiving, blending, packaging, reworking, and shipping lubricants
  • Safely operate forklift
  • Set up and operate machinery including inspection, filling, marking, weighing, labeling, banding, tying, gluing, packing, and wrapping containers
  • Observe operations and inspect/record packaged items for quality assurance
  • Perform troubleshooting, mechanical maintenance, and preventive maintenance as needed
  • Report any issues to the management team
  • Use hand tools, power tools, and specialized tools
  • Follow documented procedures and perform basic computer activities
  • Participate in plant safety rules, policies, and programs

Requirements

  • High school diploma or equivalent required
  • Valid driver's license required
  • Minimum 3 years manufacturing experience with production, warehousing, maintenance, and/or process experience required
  • Ability to troubleshoot and repair malfunctioning equipment
  • Ability to operate packaging and process equipment safely
  • Ability to obtain TWIC
  • Ability to work unsupervised
  • Ability to use computers
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Good dependability and attendance
  • Willingness to work Monday through Friday day shift, with occasional overtime/weekends/off-shifts as needed

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • This is a union position
  • The starting rate for this position is $30.23 per hour
  • This position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement (CBA)

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
PTO

How this job compares in Linden, NJ

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $33/hr median for welding jobs across New Jersey, whose middle half runs $27–$40/hr across 153 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 41% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Linden, NJ

Linden, NJ currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across New Jersey as a whole we're tracking 215 other active welding openings from 134 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Linden, or widen the search to New Jersey.

The most active employers in New Jersey at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Rhoads Industries (13), MillenniumSoft Inc (11), and Gpac (9). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within New Jersey, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Newark at $38/hr, Camden at $37/hr, and Cinnaminson at $30/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Linden, NJ

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Packager figures were last recalculated when this page was built.