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Machine Assistant

Amcor
Shelbyville, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 3 Jun 2026
💰 $42,000/yr($38,000/yr$42,000/yr)

About the role

Job Description

Role Overview: Unpack Your Potential   

Join Amcor as a Machine Assistant and play a key role in producing high-quality products that protect what’s important. You’ll be part of a team that ensures safety and quality standards are met and contribute to a team focused on collaboration and continuous improvement.   

Schedule:  

Shift: 12-hours; 2-2-3 rotation; Days 7am-7pm or Nights 7pm - 7am

Compensation & Benefits: Value, Recognized   

We reward great work with:   

  • Pay: $19-$21/hour + $1.50/hour night shift premium   

  • Overtime: 1.5x pay for hours over 40 per week   

  • 401(k): Dollar-for-dollar match up to 8%   

  • Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on day one   

  • Paid time off and holidays   

  • Growth and development opportunities   

  

Job Description: Possibility Unpacked   

What you’ll do:   

  • Assist on production lines that produce quality products.

  • Ensure jobs are running in accordance with customer, manufacturing, and printing specifications. 

  • Quality compliance of products including verifying they are free of defects.

  • Work with operators to maximize machine efficiency including minimizing job changeovers and down time. 

  • Maintains cleanliness in work area during shift and shift transitions. 

What We Want From You: Lead the Pack   

Preferred qualifications:   

  • Ability read, understand, and follow customer specifications 

  • Experience in manufacturing environment preferred. 

  • Forklift experience preferred 

  • Must have basic computer skills to complete tasks in operator software 

  • Required to have visual acuity to perform visual inspection including the use of measurement devices and ability to identify and distinguish colors 

  

What We Value   

Our Core Values guide us: Safety, Integrity, Collaboration, Accountability, Results, and Outperformance.   

Physical Requirements   

  • Lift up to 50 lbs.   

  • Stand for long periods (steel-toed shoes required)   

  • Perform climbing, crouching, and reaching   

Why Amcor?   

Be part of a global leader while working in a team-driven environment at our Shelbyville Liquids plant. At Amcor, your contributions are recognized, your growth is encouraged, and your work makes a difference.   

👉 Apply today and unpack your potential with Amcor.   

Our Expectations

We expect our people to be guided by The Amcor Way and demonstrate our Values every day to enable the business to win. We are winning when:

  • Our people are engaged and developing as part of a high-performing Amcor team
  • Our customers grow and prosper from Amcor’s quality, service, and innovation
  • Our investors benefit from Amcor’s consistent growth and superior returns
  • The environment is better off because of Amcor’s leadership and products

Accelerate the possible by joining a winning Amcor team that’s transforming the packaging industry and improving lives around the world.

At Amcor, we unpack possibility through our innovative and responsible packaging to provide solutions that benefit our customers, our people and our planet.  More than 10,000 consumers worldwide encounter our products every second and rely on us for safe access to food, medicine and other goods. We value their trust by making safety our guiding principle. It’s our core value and integral to how we do business.


Beyond this core principle, our shared values and behaviors unite us as we work together to elevate customers, shape lives and protect the future. We champion our customers and help them succeed. We play to win – adapting quickly in an everchanging world – and make smart choices to safeguard our business, our communities and the people we serve for generations to come. And we invest in our world-class team, empowering our colleagues to unpack their potential, because we believe when our people grow, so does our business.


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