Operator

Henkel

Henkel

Bowling Green, KY, USA
USD 23.49-26.1 / hour
Posted on Apr 7, 2026
About this Position At Henkel, you’ll be part of an organization that’s shaping the future through innovation, sustainability and collaboration. With our trusted brands like Persil®, ‘all®, Loctite®, Snuggle®, and Schwarzkopf® and our cutting-edge technologies, you’ll have countless opportunities to explore new paths and grow.

This position is with our Consumer Brands business unit – where we empower our employees to bring the best Laundry & Home Care and Hair products to people around the world.

Dare to learn new skills, advance in your career and make an impact at Henkel.

What You´ll Do

  • Clean and inspect equipment according to current department procedures
  • Operate sheet and cardboard bailers, properly and safely wire bind bails, remove completed bails and prepare bailer for next bail
  • Demonstrate corrective procedure for removing a roll splice from sheet stacks
  • Enter quality data into PARSEC
  • Navigate through various control screens to include run, set up, jog, machine faulty, and make changes of modes, homing sequence and set up production values to the proper limits.
  • Perform product changeovers, verifying correct material components and sheet counts
  • Perform quality checks, knowing which documents are required and shift record keeping procedures
  • Clear jams, sheets, and cartons from carton pickup, depressors, inserters, main buckets, funnel buckets, flap tuckers, cleats, chains, sprockets, plows, rollers, and belts
  • Identify and address operational and material problems
  • Identify critical, stop production quality issues and pursue corrective actions
  • Regularly conduct and participate in shift turnover discussion
  • Regularly attend, listen and participate in team meetings and end-of-shift meetings

What makes you a good fit

  • Demonstrate ownership and understanding of the Level 1 certification process
  • For safety and business purposes, must have communication skills including reading, writing and must be able to communicate to others as well as be able to receive communication from others
  • Must maintain a positive work atmosphere by behaving and communicating in a manner which enables the employee to get along with customers, clients, co-workers and management
  • Ability to follow verbal and written instructions
  • Elementary mechanical aptitude
  • Demonstrate willingness to support the actions and efforts during daily work

Some benefits of joining Henkel

  • Health Insurance: affordable plans for medical, dental, vision and wellbeing starting on day 1
  • Work-Life Balance: Paid time off including sick time, vacation time and holiday time
  • Financial: 401k matching, employee share plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares, annual performance bonus, service awards and student loan reimbursement
  • Family Support: 12-week gender neutral parental leave (up to 20 weeks for parents giving birth), fertility support, adoption & surrogacy reimbursement, discounted child and elderly care, and scholarships
  • Career Growth: skill development programs, promotional opportunities and tuition reimbursement

The salary for this role is $23.49- $26.10. This is the range that we in good faith anticipate relying on when setting wages for this position. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range. This salary range may also be modified in the future.

Henkel does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies. Unsolicited referrals and resumes are considered Henkel property and therefore, Henkel will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited referral.

Henkel is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories.