Jobs at Sonoco

Coordinates direct sales activities for existing and prospective packaging accounts across the Northeast territory. Responsibilities include developing account plans, managing customer relationships, prospecting, growing profitable sales, monitoring market activity, maintaining sales funnels, recommending pricing, resolving complaints, forecasting sales, and coordinating multi-location national accounts. The role is remote and regional, ideally based in Philadelphia or New Jersey.

Paid 12-week supply chain internship in Sonoco’s manufacturing environment. The intern will gain hands-on experience across transportation, logistics, procurement, and supply chain operations while completing projects, collaborating with experts, and developing analytical, communication, and leadership skills. The position is based at Sonoco’s corporate headquarters in Hartsville, South Carolina, with housing, activity stipends, and relocation assistance provided.

Paid 12-week engineering internship in Sonoco’s Reels Industrial Paper Products Division in Hartselle, Alabama. Interns gain hands-on manufacturing and packaging experience, complete projects with industry experts, participate in plant tours and leadership activities, and receive networking and feedback opportunities. The role requires enrollment in a bachelor’s or master’s program, technical aptitude, leadership experience, strong communication skills, and prior internship experience. Housing, relocation assistance, and activity support are provided.

Leads daily transportation operations, carrier management, logistics strategy, lane performance analysis, cost-saving initiatives, KPI visibility, process improvement, and cross-functional teams. Serves as the logistics subject matter expert, develops supplier and carrier relationships, guides assigned personnel, and improves OTM processes. Requires advanced analytical and finance skills, strategic thinking, project and change management capabilities, and at least seven years of OTM experience. Travel of 30% or more is required.

Supports EMEA HR operations through Workday and ServiceNow case management, workforce data governance, reporting, compliance, organizational changes, annual HR programs, and employee lifecycle administration. The role resolves process issues, maintains data integrity, supports audits and HR teams, develops documentation and training, and drives continuous improvement across HR service delivery.

Provides administrative and operational support for steel sourcing and procurement. Responsibilities include resolving invoice discrepancies, maintaining supplier payment terms, communicating with suppliers, supporting material quality claims, expediting purchases, tracking receipts, updating procurement procedures, and performing data entry, inventory reconciliation, and variance analysis in Oracle and QAD. Requires strong problem-solving, organization, communication, ERP, spreadsheet, and MRP reporting skills.

Supports the HR Compensation and Benefits Team through administrative coordination, invoice processing, document preparation, confidential file maintenance, meeting and travel scheduling, phone and visitor screening, and data preparation for reports and presentations.

Serves as the HR business partner for manufacturing plants, overseeing compensation, employment-law compliance, talent management, employee relations, engagement, DE&I, recruiting, onboarding, training, workforce metrics, and HR systems. Advises plant leadership, supports organizational changes and reductions in force, and manages union relationships, contract administration, grievances, mediation, and labor negotiations where applicable.

Plans and schedules plant production, raw materials, inventory, purchasing, warehousing, shipping, and customer orders for a 24/7 manufacturing operation. The role minimizes downtime and changeovers, supports capacity planning and forecasting, manages inventory reconciliation, coordinates suppliers and transportation, supervises planning-related functions, and assists with customer service, sales forecasts, and complaint resolution.

Manages plant administrative functions including payroll, HR support, personnel records, accounting coordination, purchasing, supplier invoices, maintenance tracking, reporting, inventory, and office operations. Supports recruiting, onboarding, employee engagement, process improvement, month-end closing, and plant budgeting while coordinating with corporate HR and accounts payable teams.

Provides administrative and customer support for a recycling facility. Operates the scale system, processes inbound and outbound loads, prepares tickets and receipts, maintains customer, vendor, shipment, inventory, production, and regulatory records, and supports office operations. The role handles phone and email inquiries, coordinates supplies, assists drivers and vendors, and follows safety and environmental requirements in an industrial setting.

Lead direct sales activities across a Southeast territory for coated board packaging products. Build and execute account strategies, develop customer relationships, identify new business, manage sales funnels, recommend pricing, forecast performance, and report account activity. The role requires strong packaging-industry knowledge, CRM discipline, analytical skills, cross-functional collaboration, and frequent travel across the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama.

Improves manufacturing efficiency and reliability through automation engineering, PLC and HMI programming, controls troubleshooting, machine commissioning, robotics, drive systems, and equipment upgrades. The role manages automation projects across two UK sites, develops electrical documentation and control systems, supports production breakdowns, conducts testing and risk assessments, trains engineering personnel, and leads continuous improvement initiatives involving safety, quality, downtime, and waste reduction.

Leads plastics manufacturing projects from customer requirements and part design through equipment procurement, installation, startup, and process certification. Manages capital projects, plant infrastructure, maintenance, environmental compliance, continuous improvement, safety initiatives, and production-floor troubleshooting. Collaborates with customers, suppliers, mold shops, quality, engineering, and manufacturing teams while supporting injection molding operations and implementing standard work and visual controls.

Hands-on engineer responsible for qualifying injection molding tools and equipment, launching stable production processes, developing manufacturing standards, troubleshooting molds and equipment, and driving safety, quality, efficiency, and continuous improvement initiatives. The role supports design reviews, process certification, production-floor training, standard work, and new project transitions in a 100% onsite plastics manufacturing environment.

Designs, deploys, optimizes, and supports Sonoco’s global LAN, WAN, WLAN, SD-WAN, DDI, security, and cloud-connected network infrastructure. Responsibilities include network architecture, capacity planning, configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting, incident root-cause analysis, lifecycle management, automation, documentation, vendor collaboration, security implementation, project leadership, and mentoring junior engineers. The role participates in on-call support, occasional after-hours maintenance, and limited regional travel.

Intern supports day-to-day operations, administrative tasks, research, data gathering, project collaboration, meetings, reporting, presentations, and documentation. The role offers hands-on experience while assisting team initiatives and implementing strategies. Candidates should be enrolled in a relevant degree program or recently graduated, organized, communicative, proficient in Microsoft Office, able to work independently and collaboratively, and eager to learn.

Supports daily operations, administrative tasks, research, data gathering, project strategies, meetings, progress updates, reports, presentations, and other assigned duties. Collaborates with team members while developing practical workplace skills and contributing to ongoing business initiatives.

Paid 12-week operations internship in Sonoco’s IPP Division, offering hands-on projects, cross-enterprise business exposure, networking, and relocation support. Candidates should be enrolled in an engineering bachelor’s or master’s program and demonstrate leadership, technical aptitude, communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills. Prior manufacturing or functional internship experience is preferred. Positions are available at several U.S. locations.

Manages plant HR programs including compensation, compliance, employee relations, talent management, recruiting, onboarding, engagement, DE&I, labor relations, and HR business partnership. Advises plant leadership, handles investigations and workforce actions, supports union relationships and negotiations, delivers training, and uses HR systems and workforce metrics to improve operations.