Your opportunity

We’re currently looking for a Production Supervisor at our Facility in Waterville, ME.

What you’ll be doing:

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Supervises all personnel and operations on the shift.
• Maintains thorough knowledge of all processes and equipment.
• Reports any process and equipment problems. 
• Calls the Maintenance Supervisor on evenings and weekends for assistance with problems.
• Verifies that discharges from the plant are within limits.
• Trains, upgrades, evaluates, and reviews chemical operators.
• Organizes work for smooth operations.
• Ensures that established policies, rules and regulations, and procedures are followed.
• Verifies correct identification, weights, and warehousing of products.
• Distributes plant status reports to the next-shift Foreman and General Foreman.
• Supervises loading and unloading of trucks and verifies that paperwork is correctly signed.
• Responsible for all processes, equipment, employees, safety, and housekeeping of the area and meeting production quality and quantity standards on the shift.
• Completes run sheets.
• Troubleshoots problems.

What you’ll bring to the role

• KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
• Requires overall knowledge of reactors, instruments, dryers, centrifuges, filters, pumps, forklifts, steam baths, temperature recorders, scales, banding machines, standard test equipment, and plant processes.
• Values similar to ours: Care, Dare and Deliver

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to work in indoor and outdoor industrial environments, including exposure to all weather conditions, heights, and confined spaces.
• Ability to wear appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
• Muat be able to work 12- hours, rotating shift schedule (days/nights)
• Overtime, nights, holidays, and weekend work may be required based on plant needs and equipment demands.
• Visual acuity (corrected) to read directions and prints and to inspect machine parts, product to ensure parts meet specifications.
• Manual dexterity is sufficient to operate machinery for precision work.
• Physical ability to do work requiring frequent stooping, standing, squatting, bending, crawling, twisting, and lifting of 50 pounds.

What we offer in return

• Our products are only as good as the people we hire, so we make sure to hire the best and treat them accordingly. Huhtamaki offers a comprehensive traditional benefits package including medical insurance as well as dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, 401K, and a pension. We also proudly offer a slate of more nontraditional perks – opportunities like online learning and development courses, tuition reimbursement, employee referral bonus program, wellness program, onsite medical staff, monthly employee plate store benefits, monthly onsite boot truck, and various mentorship programs – that encourage our associates to grow personally as they develop professionally. You’ll also enjoy Paid Time Off and holiday pay because we believe a work-life balance is more than just a buzzword – it’s part of our culture.
   
• Trace your own Path! Join us to shape the future together!
   

Go ahead, apply today!

If this sounds like a good fit, then we’d love to hear from you. Once we review applications, we’ll then be reaching out to qualified candidates to schedule interviews.

Join us. Help protect food, people and the planet. Enjoy a career, packaged with care.

Join us. Help protect food, people and the planet.