Jobs at Plastipak Packaging, Inc.

Manages regional customer accounts by cultivating new business, expanding existing relationships, leading sales cycles, negotiating contracts, and securing packaging solution sales. Develops sales plans, prospects and qualifies opportunities, collaborates on packaging design, maintains customer partnerships, and oversees budgets, rebates, accruals, amortizations, and forecasting. Requires significant manufacturing sales experience in consumer packaged goods and travel up to 60%.

Process weekly and biweekly payroll for more than 4,000 employees across multiple states. Maintain employee payroll data, calculate taxes and deductions, reconcile payroll accounts, prepare reports, and ensure federal, state, and local compliance. Support Workday payroll and HRIS initiatives, including configuration, testing, troubleshooting, and documentation. Serve as a payroll systems subject matter expert while identifying process improvements and resolving discrepancies.

Manufacturing Operations Engineering Intern will gain hands-on experience at a Plastipak manufacturing site, own a meaningful project, support day-to-day operations, and participate in professional development, job shadowing, leadership meetings, mentoring, and networking activities.

Summer 2027 process engineering internship at a plastics recycling facility. The intern will gain manufacturing-site experience, own a project converting preventive maintenance work orders from calendar-based to hourly plans, and participate in professional development, networking, job shadowing, and leadership activities.

Processes lockbox and in-house payments, applies cash to customer accounts, invoices sales orders and credit memos, researches billing issues, prepares reports, and tracks rebates and accruals. The role requires accuracy, strong organization, communication, and relationship-management skills while collaborating with customers, plants, marketing, auditors, and internal teams.

Manages demand planning, production scheduling, warehousing, inventory accuracy, finished-goods storage, carrier relationships, and customer deliveries. Oversees logistics performance metrics, costs, capacity, trailer allocation, and compliance with quality, food safety, ISO, and operational procedures. Leads logistics associates through hiring, training, and discipline while coordinating with production, quality, sales, purchasing, and administration to resolve supply, delivery, and warehouse issues.

Designs, develops, and maintains interactive manufacturing e-learning for production employees. Translates technical content into practical training using instructional design and adult learning principles. Partners with manufacturing subject matter experts, creates multimedia learning experiences, manages projects through LMS publication, and maintains curriculum accuracy. The role is fully on-site in Plymouth, Michigan, with occasional travel to manufacturing facilities.

Serves as the financial business partner for a manufacturing site, leading budgeting, forecasting, planning, costing, reporting, accounting compliance, inventory valuation, and variance analysis. Partners with plant leadership on performance improvement, identifies P&L impacts, maintains inventory controls, and acts as the liaison between site operations and corporate accounting.

Ensures rigid plastic container quality by analyzing SPC data, evaluating process and product conformance, initiating corrective actions, validating improvements, training Associates, leading root cause investigations, and supporting cross-functional continuous improvement. The role also includes visiting customer facilities for health check meetings and maintaining customer relationships.

Provide in-house legal counsel on corporate, commercial, and regulatory matters; draft and negotiate contracts, support M&A and financing transactions, coordinate outside counsel, represent the company in disputes, and advise management on compliance and business risks.