Job Description

Overview

Sonoco Products Company is a global leader in packaging solutions, offering a position for a Millwright in Horsham, Pennsylvania. The role involves maintaining and repairing machinery while ensuring safety and efficiency in operations.

Responsibilities

  • Complies with established job safety practices and procedures.
  • Supports and follows food safety system guidelines.
  • Troubleshoots, repairs, installs, erects, moves, and dismantles machinery and auxiliary production equipment.
  • Inspects job site and equipment, analyzes blueprints and schematics.
  • Selects and transports tools, machinery, and materials needed for assignments.
  • Fabrics sheet metal and structural units as needed.
  • Splices ropes and cables as required.
  • Performs preventative maintenance for building and grounds.
  • Repairs and maintains all assigned machines and equipment.
  • Maintains an organized and clean work area.
  • Communicates pertinent information to the next shift.
  • Performs clean-up, painting, and housekeeping duties.
  • Initiates, reviews, and follows all standard operating procedures.
  • Establishes and maintains effective work relationships within the department.
  • Works assigned schedule or 12-hour shifts, rotating days and nights.
  • Maintains regular and predictable attendance.
  • Performs duties without posing a direct threat to anyone or property.
  • Communicates effectively, reads, comprehends, and follows instructions.
  • Assures and maintains safe working conditions while enforcing safety rules.
  • Follows company policies, procedures, practices, and standards.

Requirements

  • Broad training in a related field usually acquired through high school education or equivalent work experience.
  • Job-related experience for 5 - 7 years minimum.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Location: Horsham, Pennsylvania
  • Shift: M-F 1st Shift (7am-3pm) with additional overtime as needed.
  • Sign on bonus $1500.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO

How this job compares in Horsham, PA

Pay in context

At roughly $33/hr, this posting sits about 19% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Pennsylvania — toward the top of a $24–$35/hr middle band drawn from 168 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 73% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Horsham, PA

Horsham, PA currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 315 other active welding openings from 205 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Horsham, or widen the search to Pennsylvania.

The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Rhoads Industries (15), Aerotek (11), and Hanwha Philly Shipyard (8). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Pennsylvania, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Philadelphia at $32/hr, York at $27/hr, and Lancaster at $25/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Horsham, PA

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Millwright figures were last recalculated when this page was built.