About Great Northern:
Founded in 1962, Great Northern is a local, privately-owned paper-based packaging manufacturer known for its secure, stable, and rewarding careers. We foster a collaborative, safe, clean, and enjoyable workplace where team members support and uplift each other.
Our team produces sustainable, eco-friendly products that reach national brands, influencing people’s daily lives. At Great Northern, we are dedicated to making a positive impact on the lives of our team members, customers, and the communities we serve.
The Structural Designer is responsible for providing development of package and display design concepts to assigned accounts, markets and/or projects. Structural designers fabricate final samples of design concepts for approval and write specifications for cost estimates and production, as well as act as a resource to sales and other internal teams to enhance the ability of the company to present the concepts to the market.
All job responsibilities are to be performed in adherence with the Company’s Mission/Values Statement and in accordance with established standards for external customers as well as internal customers.
Opportunities for Growth:
You will have the opportunity to learn new skills and acquire new knowledge that can be applied to grow into new positions with higher pay. Furthermore, you can grow your career with Great Northern through advancement opportunities available at our facilities both locally and nationally.
Expectation:
To be successful your teammates will depend on you to have pride in your work, be on time, work safely, work effectively with others, be optimistic, take ownership of your responsibilities, and look for continuous improvement opportunities.
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Great Northern is an equal opportunity at will employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of age, race, religion, color, disability, sex, sexual orientation or national origin.
Great Northern was founded in 1962 to provide innovative solutions that solved our customers' packaging needs. Through the years, this intent has not changed as we added capabilities such as in-store displays and protective packaging products, and facilities throughout the United States. Today, Great Northern exists to live out the core values established by our founders - integrity, personal growth, entrepreneurial spirit, and a shared future.
Our vision, "We help our employees win through personal growth and a shared future" is a call to action for our team to deliver on building a people-centric culture, developing leaders from within, and sending people home fulfilled about their role and contributions. The "win" for everyone is a trusting and collaborative culture that helps us be at our best every day.
Our mission statement, "We help our customers win by doing what others can't or won't" gives us a clear purpose and raises the bar for performance. Doing what others "can't or won't" for our customers is demonstrated by a willingness to serve customers, value-added partnerships and proactively develop innovative solutions to our customer's challenges.
