Summer Production Students

Description & Requirements

Smurfit Westrock (NYSE:SW) is a global leader in sustainable paper and packaging solutions. We are materials scientists, packaging designers, mechanical engineers and manufacturing experts with a shared purpose: Innovate Boldly. Package Sustainably. Guided by our values of integrity, respect, accountability and excellence, we use leading science and technology to move fiber-based packaging forward.

Job Opportunity:

Production Summer Students working in our manufacturing facility are the key to ensuring quality cardboard boxes are produced for our customers. Working as a team, you will ensure production targets are met and that you and your co-workers are working safely. Daily tasks included pushing, pulling, lifting, moving, stacking cardboard through various machines.

The ideal candidate will be flexible, dependable, committed to working safely, have a strong work ethic, quality conscience, able to work 12-hour shifts, and have the desire & ability to work in a fast paced, non-air-conditioned environment.

What you will be doing:

•Perform quality checks on finished products

•Inspects packaging and product for damage

•Put labels on pales

•Aware and practices a safe work-environment at all times

•Maintains work areas by keeping it clean and organized

•Follows a schedule shift

•Other duties related to the job

Requirements:

•Students are required to provide vacation relief on our manufacturing floor from May to end of August.

•Must be physically fit, able to do repetitive work and able to lift up to 40 lbs.

•Must be able to feed corrugated stock into our machines or pack boxes.

•Ability to work safely and diligently; safety, quality and attendance are key components of the job.

•Must be 18 years of age or older

•Enrolled in a post-secondary education

•Able to work rotating 12-hour shifts

This posting is for a new job vacancy. The hourly rate for this position is $21.25. To learn more about this posting, please contact your recruiter during the hiring process. You may apply online at Smurfit Westrock External Careers and the application window is expected to close by May 30, 2026.

If this sounds great and you think you fit in, please submit your resume on the Smurfit Westrock website.

If you are contacted and you require any accommodation in the recruitment process due to a disability, please indicate this and we will work with you to meet your reasonable accessibility needs.

Candidates are required to undergo a drug screening after receiving a conditional job offer, but before starting employment.