Key Activities / Measurables
Safety
• Promote a strong “safety culture” across all involved operational areas.
• Ensure compliance with applicable legal regulations and Company policies regarding occupational Health and Safety.
• Integrate safety principles into process changes and technical improvements.
Process Engineering & Continuous Improvement
• Optimize converting processes to improve productivity, yield, machine reliability and scrap reduction through data-driven analysis and continuous monitoring.
• Define, standardize and continuously improve critical process parameters to ensure process stability, repeatability and operational capability.
• Analyze cycle times, setups and production losses, implementing SMED and engineering solutions to maximize line utilization and operational efficiency.
• Drive structured root cause analysis on recurring process and equipment issues in collaboration with Maintenance, ensuring sustainable corrective actions.
• Support Quality and Production in the industrialization and stabilization of new products, customer requirements and process changes.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives leveraging Lean Manufacturing, problem solving methodologies and performance analysis.
• Strengthen technical competencies across the organization through coaching, process standardization, knowledge sharing and structured development plans.
• Ensure accurate and updated technical documentation, including operating standards, process flows, machine parameters and control plans.
• Actively contribute to the relevant SPS (Sonoco Performance System) pillars, promoting operational excellence and performance culture.
Production
• Ensure safe, stable and efficient production execution across shifts, guaranteeing continuity, quality compliance and achievement of operational targets.
• Coordinate Production Supervisors and shopfloor teams, optimizing manpower allocation, workflow organization and operational discipline.
• Monitor and analyze key production KPIs (output, efficiency, downtime, scrap, labor utilization), driving timely corrective and preventive actions.
• Identify operational deviations and performance trends through production and quality data analysis, ensuring rapid issue resolution and continuous improvement.
• Ensure full compliance with safety standards, operating procedures, quality requirements and company policies across all production activities.
• Support escalation management and troubleshooting activities in coordination with Maintenance, Quality and support functions to minimize operational impact.
• Promote a proactive safety culture, ensuring safe execution of production, setup and maintenance activities.
• Ensure effective communication, reporting and structured shift handovers to guarantee operational alignment and business continuity.
• Support people development through coaching, training coordination and competency growth of supervisors and operators.
• Actively contribute to the relevant SPS (Sonoco Performance System) pillars and operational excellence initiatives.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Collaborate daily with Production, Maintenance, Quality and Supply Chain teams to monitor plant performance, address operational constraints and improve process reliability.
• Provide direct technical support on the shopfloor to rapidly manage process deviations, quality issues and operational inefficiencies.
• Partner with Commercial, Quality and Supply Chain functions to evaluate technical feasibility, process capability and customer-specific requirements.
• Support the standardization and capability development of operators and supervisors through technical guidance, training and best practice sharing.
• Foster a collaborative, data-driven and solution-oriented approach across functions to support operational performance and continuous improvement.