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Sonoco

Manufactures consumer, industrial, healthcare packaging

Production & Engineering Services Supervisor

Manufacturing & Production OperationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeThessaloniki, GreeceNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.
  • At least 5 years of experience in manufacturing and production supervision.
  • Strong leadership and team management skills.
  • Knowledge of production systems, maintenance practices, and safety standards.
  • Problem-solving and analytical skills.
  • Experience with lean manufacturing or continuous improvement methodologies.
  • Familiarity with production planning systems, ERP, MRP, or AutoCAD.
  • Technical troubleshooting and maintenance coordination experience.
  • Excellent communication and organizational abilities.
  • Fulfilled military service, for male applicants.

Responsibilities

  • Organize, direct, and run day-to-day production operations to meet business requirements, customer expectations, production output, and product quality objectives.
  • Monitor production activities and initiate preventive and corrective actions.
  • Achieve budgeted production KPIs, including spoilage, HFI, line efficiency, labour efficiency, and absenteeism; explain deviations and organize corrective actions.
  • Organize and issue production reports daily, weekly, monthly, and annually in accordance with company requirements.
  • Allocate department resources effectively and fully utilize assets to achieve optimal results.
  • Increase production assets, capacity, and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining product quality standards.
  • Participate in plant capital expenditure investment projects, including planning and implementation.
  • Develop, certify, and continuously improve the Thessaloniki plant Environmental Management System in accordance with ISO 14001, in collaboration with the QEHS supervisor.
  • Ensure plant personnel, external contractors working on site, and visitors comply with Environmental Management System requirements.
  • Ensure compliance with environmental legislation and group environmental directives.
  • Identify personnel training needs on environmental issues.
  • Record, manage, and statistically analyze environmental accidents and near misses; participate in investigations and follow up on corrective action plans.
  • Raise personnel awareness of the Environmental Management System.
  • Schedule and conduct documented monthly environmental audits focused on personnel mentality and behavior.
  • Schedule and conduct documented monthly environmental inspections focused on equipment and tooling.
  • Organize and issue required environmental reports to the group and participate in group meetings related to environmental, health, and safety issues.
  • Monitor and target plant energy consumption.
  • Organize and direct preventive and corrective actions to reduce energy consumption.
  • Regularly review and upgrade plant energy analysis.
  • Execute energy-saving projects on time and within budget.
  • Manage power and natural gas provider contracts and negotiations in collaboration with the group specialist.
  • Manage preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance, including lubrication, through the COSWIN maintenance system, recording all maintenance activity in the system.
  • Monitor maintenance performance indicators MTTR and MTBF through COSWIN and improve year-to-date MTBF and MTTR results compared with the previous year.
  • Supervise the spare-parts warehouse and optimize spare-parts safety stock.
  • Implement the procure-to-pay purchasing policy, including receipt of invoices and quantitative and qualitative checks of spare parts.
  • Obtain quotations and negotiate with suppliers and contractors for machinery, parts, and technical components for mechanical and electrical-and-automation maintenance, improvements, and new investments.

About the Company

Sonoco

Manufactures consumer, industrial, healthcare packaging

Sonoco is a global packaging company that manufactures consumer, industrial, healthcare and protective packaging. It produces a range of packaging products and integrated solutions used to protect, present and brand products across many industries, drawing on materials like paper, plastic and metal. Its offerings cover design, conversion and production of packaging that helps brands create unique experiences and maintain product quality from manufacture to shelf. Compared with peers, Sonoco emphasizes scale, geographic reach (34 countries) and end-to-end packaging solutions, plus a track record of recognizing sustainability and social responsibility, including listings in Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies and Barron’s 100 Most Sustainable Companies. The company’s stated goal is Better Packaging. Better Life., focusing on sustainable products, services, and programs for customers, employees and communities.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Hartsville, SC
Founded
1899

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