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.

While reporting to the Plant Engineer, this position will be directly responsible for planning and scheduling daily work needed to properly maintain all plant equipment.

Key focus of this position is to plan and schedule preventive maintenance activities that will drive a culture of Zero Breakdowns.

What you'll be doing:

• Ensuring all maintenance jobs are planned and scheduled with safety at the forefront

• Ensuring that all maintenance work is thoroughly planned one week out

• Ensuring communication of planned work to all affected parties

• Communicating and strategizing work needed with maintenance owners

• Identifying Areas for Improvement to include safety risks and PM task improvements

• Assisting in creating plans for improvement efforts

• Owning and planning Maintenance Downtime to ensure all required work can be completed

• Advanced understanding and upkeep of Cworks system

This position must understand the importance of Preventive/Predictive Maintenance and be able to plan and schedule daily activities to support this proactive maintenance approach. This position must have the ability to work closely with all levels of the plant to plan, schedule, and communicate daily activities. The person in this position must be self-motivated to ensure all maintenance functions within their realm are planned and scheduled in the safest manner and with such efficiency that no jobs are waiting on parts, tools or manpower to perform the task. This position must also work closely with maintenance owners to ensure that PM tasks are thorough and timely and will eliminate Breakdowns if performed as such.

This position will require an excellent balance of organizational skills, leadership skills, strong work ethic, written and verbal communication skills, and dynamic people skills. Due to the nature of this job, strong maintenance skills (particularly an understanding of preventive maintenance needed for many mechanical components) are required.

Specific Duties

1. Responsible for personal commitment to safety, working toward an injury-free environment. Responsible for ensuring that all tasks are planned and scheduled with safety in mind.

2. Responsible for planning all maintenance jobs one week out. This includes:

• Ensuring all safety risks are identified and eliminated/reduced

• Thoroughly planning each maintenance task from prep work needed, documentation required, parts kitted, manpower needed to complete and post-work needed.

• Ensuring that Preventive Maintenance tasks take precedence in the planned schedule

• “Assisting in” ensuring all Preventive/Predictive Maintenance tasks are thorough and will prevent Breakdowns

• Communicating with all stakeholders to understand findings and work needed

• Ensuring Cworks has the proper PM tasks and frequency loaded and attached to pieces of equipment

• Ensuring each piece of equipment has spare parts listed in Cworks

• Ensuring communication and strategizing with maintenance owners on the maintenance work plan in their area

• Owning and planning Planned Downtime to ensure that all tasks that will ensure Zero Breakdowns are performed

• Communicating planned work to all affected parties

3. Responsible for scheduling all maintenance jobs one week out. This includes:

• Ensuring all planned work is scheduled within 1 week of its due date in Cworks

• Owning the PM Calendar and ensuring its accuracy at all times

• Ensuring that Preventive Maintenance tasks take precedence in the planned schedule

• Ensuring schedule is communicated to maintenance owners and supervisor two weeks out.

• Ensure daily schedule is given to lead men to be communicated to maintenance owners

4. Responsible for maintaining Cworks:

• Ensuring all PM checklists are attached and continuously updated in Cworks

• Ensuring PM checklist database is secure

• Ensuring all old tasks are deleted as necessary

• Ensuring all spare parts are attached to each piece of equipment inside Cworks

• Ensuring all equipment and equipment numbers are loaded into Cworks

• Ensuring each maintenance job has an associated work order number

• Able to run Cworks reports that will provide insight to any clean-up needs in Cworks

This position must understand the importance of Preventive/Predictive Maintenance and be able to plan and schedule daily activities to support this proactive maintenance approach. This position must have the ability to work closely with all levels of the plant to plan, schedule, and communicate daily activities. The person in this position must be self-motivated to ensure all maintenance functions within their realm are planned and scheduled in the safest manner and with such efficiency that no jobs are waiting on parts, tools or manpower to perform the task. This position must also work closely with maintenance owners to ensure that PM tasks are thorough and timely and will eliminate Breakdowns if performed as such.

This position will require an excellent balance of organizational skills, leadership skills, strong work ethic, written and verbal communication skills, and dynamic people skills. Due to the nature of this job, strong maintenance skills (particularly an understanding of preventive maintenance needed for many mechanical components) are required.

This position will be based in Chatham, NY plant. A charming town located in Columbia County in the Hudson Valley region of New York State. Known for its picturesque landscapes, small-town charm, and vibrant cultural scene.

We'd love to hear from you if:

• Excellent Leadership Skills

• Highly Technical

• Preventive Maintenance Experience

• Excellent Organizational Skills

• Excellent Communication Skills

• Structured and excels in a Process environment

• Troubleshooting Skills

• Strong computer literacy

• Experience with Cworks or other CMMS program a must.

Compensation: 

The annual base salary range for this role is from $__ to $__, dependent upon experience and qualifications.

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At Sonoco Products Company, we offer a comprehensive total rewards package, including competitive pay and benefits. *Benefits listed below are for employees located in the U.S. Specific benefits and wellbeing programs may vary depending on your location (within the U.S. or global), or if you are a union employee.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents, including FSA and HSA options401(k) retirement plan with company matchWellbeing tools and resources to support holistic health, including an Employee Assistance Program with a variety of servicesPaid time off and holidays to recreate, rejuvenate and care for the health of yourself and familyVariety of company paid and voluntary employee-paid insurance plans including life, personal accident, and disability insuranceTuition reimbursement

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.