General Laborer - Sonoco

Location: De Pere, WI

Position: General Laborer

Pay: $23.81/hr - average entry level earnings at $65,000 PLUS a year

9 paid holidays, 2 weeks of vacation & 2 Personal Holidays (prorated), after a 60 day probation period

Shift: Rotate 12 hour shifts - work week is 48 hours

Overtime: Time and one half after 8 hours in a day
Shift differential: .60 for night shift

The company offers competitive wages at $23.81 with the average entry level earnings at $65,000 PLUS a year. Earnings increase when an employee qualifies in a position.
Additionally, the company also offers a great benefits package including health, dental, prescription, paid vacation, and a 401k Program with company matching.

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 Mill Superintendent as the General Laborer, you will be responsible for supporting the production environment within our manufacturing operations. Safety, quality, productivity, and a strong work ethic are important to the Sonoco culture. You will perform tasks that are necessary to provide high quality Sonoco products in a timely and efficient manner.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Collaborating closely with other departments and teams
• Making incremental process adjustments, monitoring, and reporting quality results of manufactured products.
• Utilizing critical thinking and troubleshooting skills to set up new jobs and operate various machines.
• Safely completing specific tasks that include but are not limited to:
  • Operating mobile equipment, including a fork truck
  • Assisting with paper breaks
  • Creating parent roll
  • Threading rewinder
  • Separating and packaging rolls after being slit on rewinder
  • Retrieving/staging roll products
  • Retrieving tape and other packaging supplies
  • Finishing and packaging product
  • Assisting during machine maintenance outages

We'd love to hear from you if you:

• Have previous paper machine operating experience (preferred) or work experience in a industrial setting requiring physical labor.
• Have previous Forklift experience (preferred).
• Have basic computer skills and can read and use measuring devices.
• Have exceptional troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.  
• Have proven history of success showing excellent attendance, a positive attitude, reliability and drive, quality focus, and a commitment to safety.
• Are able and available to work all shifts on a rotating schedule.
• Can effectively work with a team in a fast-paced environment.
• Can read and understand manufacturing instructions.
• Can perform repetitive duties, climb stairs, stand for long periods of time, periodically work in hot or cold areas, multitask, lift 25 lbs. unassisted, and team lift 50 lbs.
• Can handle the cold Wisconsin temperatures as well as hot and humid conditions generated from the paper machine and mill environment.
• Can be Sonoco mission driven.

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.