Job Description

From a small family business to a multi-billion-dollar global company, Sonoco has been changing the face of products and packaging since 1899 — all while keeping the heart of “People Build Businesses” alive.

Our talented people are at the core of our growth, constantly reinventing the Sonoco wheel with brilliant solutions every year. Today we are a world leader in global packaging solutions with diversified operations in over 34 countries. We're extremely proud of our portfolio of brands, our achievements in sustainability and industrialization and the groundbreaking work accomplished by our people.

Plant Engineer/Maintenance Manager

You will like working for us as we have amazing people and a highly collaborative culture. Global success hasn’t changed our tight-knit feel – we’ve simply grown into a larger, more diverse family. We have thousands of jobs around the globe and encourage all of our associates to chase their dreams without having to find them in another company – it is truly is a special place.

While reporting to the Plant Superintendent, you will be responsible for achieving the highest level of reliability for plant equipment through committed support for the Sonoco Performance System (SPS), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM/DTM), and strong ownership of the Maintenance Excellence process within their plant.

• Continually improve safety results by addressing both physical safety issues and employee safety behaviors. Ensure that all health and safety guidelines are followed by all employees.
• Direct maintenance department to eliminate physical safety hazards that have been turned in by employees.
• Champion the Maintenance Excellence (ME) process. Serve as the Maintenance Excellence Leader for the Plant SPS (TPM/ DTM) Steering Team.
• Work closely with SPS (TPM/DTM) Steering Team and to effectively deploy the 8 sub-pillars of the Maintenance Excellence pillar.
• Support corporate SPS initiatives and partner with Divisional SPS Practitioners and Maintenance Excellence Leaders to effectively and efficiently progress through the SPS and ME continuums.
• Provide leadership to ensure the highest standards of equipment performance are achieved and sustained. This involves establishing a sufficient number of highly-skilled, trained and qualified individuals; providing the tools, facilities, and environment needed for success; implementing sufficient controls; and providing appropriate oversight.
• Works with Plant SPS (TPM/DTM) Steering Team to achieve zero-losses by creating an environment where personnel are fully engaged, teamwork and cooperation is routinely practiced, and maintenance personnel embrace high standards for housekeeping, craftsmanship and equipment reliability.
• Promote a culture in which production and maintenance work together to identify and resolve abnormal or degraded equipment conditions that could negatively impact safety, quality or productivity.
• Support the “Zero-Loss” initiative; improve overall equipment effectiveness by targeting the major losses, involve operators in the maintenance of their equipment, improve maintenance efficiency and effectiveness, training to improve skills and knowledge and participating in early equipment management and maintenance prevention design.
• Manage outside contracted labor resources for projects or repairs including price bidding, review of staffing requirements, and daily work direction.
• Plan and oversee machine maintenance outages for staffing of internal and external labor requirements, proper job scope and critical time path adherence.
• Supervise operation of the storeroom and ensure critical spare parts are available.

This position is located at our DePere, Wisconsin Paper Mill

• Must have high school diploma, Bachelor’s Degree is highly preferred
• 5+ years of maintenance supervisory experience in a paper mill is required
• Experience in TPM or Reliability field preferred.
• Experience with CMMS preferred.

We care about the health and wellness of you and your family. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package that makes it easier to manage your health and provide financial security for you and your family. In addition, we offer competitive wages and retirement plans.

Apply today and help us grow stronger.

The annual base salary range for this role is from $98,000 to $110,250, plus monthly target bonus of 12.5% of base salary.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any legally protected characteristic.