Enjoy a career, packaged with care, whilst helping protect food, people and the planet
We are a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions. We’re on a mission to make all packaging recyclable, reusable, or compostable. Every day, we ensure the hygiene and safety of food and drink for people around the world. We are Huhtamaki.
You could be part of our vision. Because it’s our talented people that make it happen. Our people on the shop floor producing innovative, sustainable products. Our people in our offices delivering excellence for our customers every day. It’s every one of us working together.
We offer a place where you can feel safe, be supported, and make an impact so we can all focus on the future together.
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.
Skills Required
- Knowledge of reactors, instruments, dryers, centrifuges, filters, pumps, forklifts, steam baths, temperature recorders, scales, banding machines, standard test equipment, and plant processes
- Ability to work indoors and outdoors in all weather conditions, at heights, and in confined spaces
- Ability to wear appropriate personal protective equipment
- Ability to work 12-hour rotating day and night shifts
- Ability to work overtime, nights, holidays, and weekends as plant needs require
- Corrected visual acuity sufficient to read directions and prints and inspect machine parts and products
- Manual dexterity to operate machinery for precision work
- Physical ability to frequently stoop, stand, squat, bend, crawl, twist, and lift up to 50 pounds
Huhtamaki Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Huhtamaki and has not been reviewed or approved by Huhtamaki.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive with dental and vision options, and employer contributions toward premiums are portrayed as generous. Feedback suggests this breadth makes the overall package feel competitive for many roles.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with pre‑tax and Roth options, with certain groups also having access to a pension and even deferred compensation. Feedback suggests these features stand out positively in a manufacturing context.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, paid holidays, and generous parental leave are emphasized alongside meaningful PTO accruals. Feedback suggests this leave structure strengthens perceived total rewards even where base pay is viewed as only fair.
Huhtamaki Insights
What We Do
Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste. We embed sustainability in everything we do. We are committed to achieving carbon neutral production and designing all our products to be recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2030. We are a participant in the UN Global Compact and EcoVadis has awarded Huhtamaki with the Gold medal for performance in sustainability. To play our part in managing climate change, we have set science-based targets that have been approved and validated by the Science Based Targets initiative. With 100 years of history and a strong Nordic heritage we operate in 37 countries and 103 operating locations around the world. Our values Care Dare Deliver guide our decisions and help our team of around 18 000 employees make a difference where it matters. Our 2023 net sales totaled EUR 4.2 billion. Huhtamaki Group is headquartered in Espoo, Finland and our parent company, Huhtamäki Oyj, is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. Find out more about how we are protecting food, people and the planet on www.huhtamaki.com
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