The global packaging industry experienced an 18% rise in new job postings related to social responsibility in Q3 2022 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s whitepaper on Social Responsibility in Packaging – Hiring Activity in Q3 2022. This compares to an 82% increase versus Q3 2021.
Notably, Maintenance and Repair Workers, General jobs accounted for a 4% share of the global packaging industry’s social responsibility-related total new job postings in Q3 2022, up 40% over the prior quarter.
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General, with a share of 4%, emerged as the top social responsibility-related job roles within the packaging industry in Q3 2022, with new job postings rising by 40% quarter-on-quarter. Machinists came in second with a share of 3% in Q3 2022, with new job postings rise by 14% over the previous quarter.
The other prominent social responsibility roles include Industrial Production Managers with a 3% share in Q3 2022, First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers with a 3% share of new job postings.
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The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q3 2022 were Tetra Laval International, Ball, Westrock and Cascades. Together they accounted for a combined share of 35% of all social responsibility-related active jobs in the packaging industry.
Tetra Laval International posted 466 jobs in Q3 2022 and registered a rise of 64% over the previous quarter, followed by Ball with 453 jobs and a 19% drop. Westrock with 425 jobs and Cascades with 272 jobs, recorded a 34% growth and a 17% increase, respectively, while PCA Denver recorded a 10% increase with 259 job postings during Q3 2022.
The largest share of social responsibility-related new job postings in the packaging industry in Q3 2022 was in the US with 73% followed by the UK (6%) and Canada (5%). The share represented by the US was three percentage points lower than the 76% share it accounted for in Q2 2022.
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