General Production Worker

Job Title: General Production Worker

Job Description

This role supports a fast-paced manufacturing and distribution operation by performing packaging, bottling, and order-building tasks on the production floor. You will rotate between packaging and filling areas, working with machinery, conveyors, and pallet jacks to prepare products for shipment while maintaining quality, safety, and accuracy standards.

Responsibilities

• Perform packaging and bottling tasks, including filling bottles with product and ensuring accurate counts for each production run.
• Package finished bottles into boxes, including building boxes, loading bottles into boxes based on counts and orders, and wrapping, taping, and staging boxes for shipment.
• Add bottles and materials to machinery and conveyors to keep production lines running smoothly and efficiently.
• Conduct visual inspections of products and packaging to verify quality, correct labeling, and adherence to production specifications.
• Gather products and materials from inventory to support packaging and bottling operations, including weighing and staging items as needed.
• Stage and organize pails and buckets for filling operations, ensuring correct placement and readiness for production.
• Hand-fill product into bins, pails, and buckets, including filling with dry goods, and ensure containers are properly filled and sealed.
• Tape and seal pails, buckets, and other containers, ensuring they are secure and ready for labeling and shipment.
• Print labels and apply them accurately to orders, ensuring proper identification and traceability of all products.
• Stage and palletize pails, buckets, and other packaged products, including wrapping pallets and preparing them for shipping.
• Move pallets using pallet jacks in a safe and controlled manner to support staging, storage, and shipping activities.
• Stage orders for shipping, verify finished orders against documentation, and weigh products to confirm accuracy.
• Follow all safety procedures, including the use of steel-toe footwear and respirators when required, and maintain a clean and organized work area.
• Work collaboratively with team members across different departments and around machinery and conveyors to meet production goals and deadlines.
• Adapt to a faster-paced work environment and support continuous improvement efforts on the production floor.

Essential Skills

• Previous manufacturing or production experience, preferably in packaging, bottling, or line work.
• Proven ability to perform heavy lifting and physically demanding general labor tasks throughout the shift.
• Experience with packaging processes, including wrapping, staging, palletizing, and labeling products.
• Hands-on experience with bottling or filling operations in a faster-paced work environment.
• Ability to safely operate pallet jacks to move and stage pallets and materials.
• Forklift experience with an active certification obtained within the last 4 years.
• Strong attention to detail for verifying production runs, checking products, and confirming finished orders.
• Basic computer or CPU skills to support tasks such as printing labels and verifying orders.
• Ability to follow written and verbal instructions and work effectively as part of a production team.
• High school diploma or GED.
• Ability and willingness to wear steel-toe footwear and respirators when required.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience working around machinery and conveyors in a manufacturing or warehouse environment.
• Experience in staging orders for shipping and verifying order accuracy and weights.
• Familiarity with continuous improvement environments and openness to learning new processes and equipment.
• Ability to transition into more advanced operator roles over time, such as press operator, blender, or filler operator.
• Reliability, strong work ethic, and consistency in attendance and performance.
• Comfort working in a structured, safety-focused production setting with defined procedures.

Why Work Here?

You will join a highly profitable organization with ambitious growth plans and a strong commitment to reinvesting in its operations. The facility produces a state-of-the-art product and offers a clear path for career advancement from general labor into higher-level operator roles, with increasing pay potential as you progress. The company emphasizes training, continuous improvement, and internal mobility, giving motivated employees the opportunity to build long-term careers. A contract-to-hire structure allows you to demonstrate your skills and transition into a permanent role while benefiting from a stable, growth-oriented environment.

Work Environment

The role is based in a smaller, well-organized manufacturing facility that is actively focused on continuous improvement. The warehouse and production floor are kept clean, with products and materials flowing efficiently through different departments. You will work around machinery, conveyors, and various packaging and filling equipment, and regularly use pallet jacks and forklifts. The position follows a first-shift schedule, typically from 6:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The work is fast-paced and physically demanding, involving heavy lifting, standing, and moving throughout the shift. Steel-toe footwear is required, and respirators are worn occasionally as needed for specific tasks. You will work closely with a team-oriented group of production and warehouse staff and receive training on equipment, processes, and safety procedures to perform your duties effectively.

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Alsip, IL.

The pay range for this position is $17.00 - $19.00/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)

This is a fully onsite position in Alsip,IL.

This position is anticipated to close on Apr 24, 2026.

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.