Adjuster Supervisor
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 8, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 4, 2026.
Company Overview
Why Choose Us?
Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries including foodservice, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Novolex manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates including resin, paper, molded fiber, aluminum and more. We provide customers a broad array of stock and customized solutions with 120 product categories, 250 brands and over 39,000 SKUs.
Our Sustainability Commitment
The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products, our operations and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability, helping us achieve our ambitious goals through our wide-ranging initiatives.
Job Description
Adjuster Mechanic
Brownsville, TX
Compensation Includes
- Starting pay rate of $18-22/hour
Available Shift
- 3rd
Overview Reporting to the Shift Supervisor, the Adjuster is responsible for adjusting Merchandise, Grocery or Sack paper bag machines. They are also responsible for the safety, product quality and meeting/exceeding production targets in their assigned area.
Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities
- Continuously perform all required tasks in a safe manner, adhering to all established safety rules and procedures
- Ensure all guards are in place and functioning properly
- Enforce all safety rules including but not limited to safe work procedures such as lockout/tag out
- Enforce PPE requirements
- Identify safety training needs provide feedback to Safety Manager, Supervisor, or training coordinator
- Check bags for quality defects off the machine, do all quality checks and paper-work as per Quality Policy
- Ensure requires quality checks are being performed by the BMO
- Perform quality checks ate each roll change
- Identify quality training needs and provide feedback to quality manager, supervisor, or training coordinator
- Follow all quality policies and procedures. Must comply with all good manufacturing practices
- Must comply with all safety practices and guidelines including PPE requirements
- Make machine set ups and order changeovers
- Adjust and repair machines as needed in order to increase production, reduce downtime, eliminate quality issues and improve machine durability
- Monitor employee breaks and schedule relief as needed
- Identify training needs and schedule training session with shift Supervisor/training coordinator
- Monitor machine run speeds and adjust to run at budgeted speeds or better
- Communicate any issues or pending work at shift change with the incoming adjusters
- Report machine issues and plan repair work accordingly
- Maintain daily housekeeping standards
- Enforce all safety procedures and GMP polices
- Submit accurate production reports daily and timely
- Meet/achieve safety, quality, production waste and housekeeping goals set forth by management
Principal Accountabilities
- Follows all Company rules and guidelines
- Avoid unsafe practices or carelessness. Follow all Company safety rules and policies. Follow all safety rule specific to each machine and/or department
- Cooperate with fellow employees
- Be always waste conscious of efforts and materials
- Attempts to achieve quality product
- Good attendance is a condition of employment
Qualifications
- Prefer to have a High School Diploma or GED
- Minimum 3 year of experience working in a manufacturing environment
- Capable of communicating with all levels of internal and external customers
- Must be able to think on your feet, work with limited supervision and make sound decisions
- Must be a team player with a “can do” attitude
- Should possess basic mechanical skills
- Must be capable of standing for long periods of time
- Ability to frequently lift and carry 50 lbs
- Must have basic troubleshooting abilities
- Regularly required to stand, sit, move about facility, climb stairs, bend, twist, kneel, crouch or crawl, use hands and fingers to touch, handle, or feel objects, tools and controls, grasp, push, pull, reach with hands and arms, lift above shoulder level. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, color vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus
Work Environment
- While performing the duties of this job the employee frequently works near moving mechanical parts. The employee occasionally is exposed to fumes or other airborne particles and vibration
- Noise levels in the work environment usually in the range of 85 decibels therefore ear protection is required
- Foot protection is required steel toe or composite shoes, or boots will be acceptable
- Employee will be subject to mandatory testing for drugs and/or alcohol on a random, reasonable suspicion, post-accident, return-to-duty, and follow-up basis
Company Benefits
What You'll Get From Us
Benefits
With safety as our top priority and a commitment to employee well-being an important focus, we offer comprehensive and competitive benefits that include medical, dental and vision insurance as well as a variety of other well-being resources focused on mental, physical and financial health. Specific benefits and well-being programs may vary depending on where you work.
Community Engagement
At Novolex, giving back to the local communities that support us is important. Our Focused Giving Program prioritizes support for organizations whose missions promote sustainability initiatives or address food and hunger needs. We also encourage facility level support of activities in the communities where our employees live and work.
Training and Development
We offer constant opportunities for advancement. From skills development to advanced education programs, training and development programs and courses are available through MyLearning. Programs include company and industry training curricula, support for formal education through the Tuition Reimbursement Program (Non-Union), and a Learning Management System that supports and enhances employee skills at all levels of the organization.
Novolex is committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices, including but not limited to selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, handicap or disability, genetics, citizenship status, service member or veteran status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law. Any individual who, because of his or her disability, needs an accommodation in connection with an aspect of the Company's application process should contact [email protected].
Formerly Pactiv Evergreen