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.

Safety Coordinator/Quality Technician

Location: Pine Bluff, AR

Pay: $23.71/hr

Shift: 1st

The safety and health of employees takes precedence over all duties of this job. This position is responsible to the Plant Manager for the entire safety program for the Pine Bluff Plant. Specific duties include, but are not limited to, the following: Work with the plant leadership team to ensure all safety training requirements are completed, updated, and documented.

Ensure compliance with all Governmental Agencies including OSHA.

Ensure compliance with all local, state, federal, division and corporate environmental regulations and requirements.

• Incident Reporting
• Identifying Risk/Hazards
• Trailer Securing
• OSHA Inspection
• Hazard Energy Control Program Training
• Electrical Safety
• PPE Training
• SDS Training
• Weekly Safety Training and Communication to Plant
• Bloodborne Pathogens
• Fall Protection
• Housekeeping Standards
• Hot Work
• Forklift Pedestrian Safety

Work with Plant Manager to ensure all quality requirements and training are completed.

• Conduct required off-line testing for products.
• Ensure all customer feedbacks are completed on-time, root cause is identified and implemented.
• Assist in analyzing all customer feedbacks for trends and continuous improvement.
• Involved in corrective action and preventive action process.
• Assist in process capability studies as deemed necessary.
• Assist and/or train plant personnel in GIQ quality system.
• Assist in maintaining customer property.
• Assist in maintaining process for document control.
• Document COA's, COC's as required.
• Participates on customer visits if needed.
• Defines quality concepts and quality processes, including statistical basics, etc.; applies quality tools; interprets information and data; applies team concepts.
• Where applicable, support the food safety team to organize its work, ensure relevant training and education of the food safety team members, ensure the food safety management system is established, implemented, maintained and updated, and report to the organization's top management on the effectiveness and suitability of the food safety management system
• Must know which measurement and test equipment (M&TE) tools are appropriate for various tasks and how to assess tool accuracy and precision; understands the concept of standards traceability for M&TE.
• Understands and applies basic inspection and testing techniques, including various types of sampling plans.
• Understands and applies various quality audit types and their components, tools, and techniques.
• Must be able to control nonconforming material.
• Responsible for maintaining calibration program.

Safety certification is a plus, but not required.

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.