Job Description

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 Piper AA at our Huhtamaki Plant in Waterville, Maine and you should be within reasonable commuting distance from here.

What you’ll be doing

Job Summary

To maintain, fabricate, install, weld and dismantle all types of pipelines, fittings and hydraulics as required for new construction or maintenance.

Essential Functions to include but not limited to:

1. Confers with supervisor at the start of each shift to determine work priorities.
2. Receives instructions, blueprints, and work orders for the job. Develops working procedure for the job, material requirements, scaffolding and other equipment required. Calculates dimensions and bends required for piping.
3. Installs, bends, cuts, threads, welds, and cuts off piping and shapes and fabricates pipe to the particular requirements for the job.
4. Inspects and maintains facility piping systems, heating, refrigeration and air conditioning systems, water treatment and sewer systems, burners and heaters.
5. Sets up and operates various bending, threading, and cutoff equipment.
6. Installs various types of insulation and pipe covering; removes and disposes old coverings in line with company hazardous waste procedures and EPA and OSHA requirements.
7. Makes hydraulic pressure test of piping installations. Checks and adjusts controls, gauges, and valves to achieve control of flow of pressure.
8. Notifies Supervision of potentially dangerous piping systems and corrective actions taken or documented.

What you’ll bring to the role

Qualifications

1. Technical 2-year associates degree and/or 5 years as a pipefitter in an industrial facility.
2. Manual dexterity skills
3. Ability to read and interpret blue prints
4. Ability to effectively communicate with written and verbal communications
5. Satisfactory work records including attendance
6. Ability to pass Huhtamaki hands-on pipefitter test.
7. Values similar to ours, Care, Dare and Deliver.

Physical Requirements

1. Visual acuity (corrected) to read directions and prints.
2. Manual dexterity.
3. 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.

EOE/Veterans/Disabled

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