Careers
Join the Midwest Team!
Employees start earning 1 to 2 hours of Personal Paid Leave on the first day!
All employees get a paid 30 minute lunch.
All Benefits start the first of the month after date of hire!
- 401K (3% full company match / 4% company contribution for employee contribution of 5% or more)
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Short Term Disability Coverage
- Long Term Disability Coverage
- Life Insurance (Free to all Midwest Employees $25,000/$50,000)
- Vacation (Ranges from 1 week up to 5 weeks)
- Personal Paid Leave (possibility to earn up to 6 - 13 extra days off a year)
- 7 Paid holidays per calendar year
- Illinois Paid leave (40 hours issued on first day)
Find out more about why our employees love working for Midwest Packaging, watch the videos below to learn more.
To learn about the different career paths at Midwest Packaging & Container, please click on the job details links below.
We are always looking for good people:
To apply for a job, please fill out the form below. Be sure to include the position you are interested in, as well as your resumé.
Corrugation Department:
Operator
- Directs and oversees the machine team
- Monitors the machine’s operating system
- Primary set-up person
- Responsible for the quality of all product produced
Assistant Operator
- Responsible for feeding and/or receiving corrugated sheets
- Verify quality of the sheets being fed into the machine
- Verify quality of the finished carton
Material Handler
- Ensure the machines have the raw material necessary
- Unload and receive in raw material
- Forklift experience is required
Assembler
- Assemble components based on customer specifications
- Employee will operate industrial hot glue guns and staplers.
Shipping and Receiving:
CDL Driver
- The face of customer service to our customers
- Drivers load and unload their own trucks
- All local driving and home every night!
- All drivers must have a CDL-A.
Material Handler
- Utilize Amtech Top Gun scanning software
- Pull finished product from the line
- Place stock in racks or staging
- Forklift experience is required
Woodshop:
Crate and Skid Builders
- Build 17 to 20 skids per hour
- Build crates to government specifications
- Employees will operate several types of saws, industrial nail guns, and industrial staple guns.
- The ability to read a tape measure is required
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