Jobs at Hood Packaging Corporation

Leads corporate research and development for the Plastics Division, coordinating product development, plant trials, customer qualifications, commercialization, raw-material approval, resin optimization, and cost-reduction initiatives. Provides technical support to customers, sales, procurement, and manufacturing teams; investigates quality and performance issues; supports corrective actions and laboratory capability evaluations. Maintains awareness of flexible-packaging technologies and contributes to strategic planning, process improvement, supplier collaboration, and technical customer or industry engagements.

Responsible for standard costing, variance analysis, inventory reconciliation, transfer pricing, job close procedures, financial reporting, budgeting, and cost-impact analysis for manufacturing operations. Maintains costing and inventory data integrity, supports month- and year-end close, assists with Controller and Payroll functions, and ensures compliance with HACCP, GMP, work instructions, and SQF requirements.

Provides technical support to manufacturing operations through continuous process improvement, cost reduction, safety enhancement, and plant efficiency initiatives. Leads Kaizen and Lean projects, troubleshoots production issues, performs root-cause analysis, standardizes processes, develops operating documentation, supports validations, justifies capital projects, and coordinates safety and quality initiatives. The role works closely with production, maintenance, quality, sales, and management in a packaging manufacturing plant.

Maintains employee HR records and compensation and benefits documentation in the HRIS, answers employee HR questions, supports the HR Supervisor with administrative duties, and assists with safety functions at the Tifton facility.

Manages and administers HR programs at the Hamlet facility, including health and safety, employee relations, recruitment, training and development, compensation, and benefits. Ensures compliance with company policies and employment laws and requires union experience.

Prepare and track operating costs (labor, materials, overhead, inventory), analyze cost impacts of product and process changes, produce variance reports and ad-hoc summaries, and implement cost accounting policies, systems, and procedures.

Responsible for standard costing, cost variance analysis, labor and overhead rate calculations, inventory reconciliation, job close procedures, transfer pricing, financial reporting, budgeting, and maintaining costing data integrity. The role collaborates with manufacturing, engineering, marketing, sales, purchasing, and accounting teams in an office and plant environment.

The Cost Accountant will maintain standard costs, analyze labor, material, and overhead variances, monitor inventory accuracy, and identify cost optimization opportunities. The role supports product standardization, continuous improvement of accounting processes, and administrative functions including payroll and accounts payable and receivable. Success requires strong analytical and organizational skills, advanced Excel proficiency, accounting experience, and functional fluency in French and English.

Analyzes production costs, maintains standard costs, evaluates labor, materials, and overhead variances, monitors inventory accuracy, and recommends cost improvements. The role supports payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, administrative teams, and continuous improvement of accounting processes. It also collaborates with technical teams to standardize products and requires strong analytical, organizational, bilingual French-English, and Excel skills.

Responsible for standard costing, variance analysis, labor and overhead rate calculations, inventory reconciliation, transfer pricing, financial reporting, budgeting, and cost-system integrity. The role supports manufacturing, production, payroll, and controller functions while ensuring compliance with HACCP, GMP, work instructions, and SQF requirements. Requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail, accounting knowledge, and proficiency with Microsoft Word and Excel. This is an in-person, Monday-through-Friday office position.

Support paper/polywoven packaging plant operations by driving process improvements, cost reduction, safety and quality compliance (HACCP, GMP, SQF). Troubleshoot production issues, lead validations, develop procedures and training, manage process projects, coordinate with maintenance, supervisors and engineering, and prepare capital justifications.