Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School Senior Brayden Therrien Accepts Full-time Position at P&G Gillette World Shaving Headquarters

CHARLTON — Superintendent-Director Kyle Brenner and Director of Career and Technical Education James Tripp Pockevicius are pleased to announce that Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School senior Brayden Therrien has accepted a full-time position at P&G Gillette World Shaving Headquarters. 

Therrien has been hired in the role of Metal Fabrication Apprentice. He will begin his new role on August 7.

In this role he will be responsible for continuing to advance his sheet metal forming and welding skills, in support of precision machine builds, safety upgrades and factory support.

Therrien was selected following a comprehensive search that included passing P&G’s rigorous online assessments and PEAK interview process, in addition to technical interviews and testing based on his trade. 

There was only one available opening for a metal fabrication apprentice this year. Therrien was selected from a pool of hundreds of students from over a dozen vocational high schools.

“On behalf of the entire district, I want to congratulate Brayden on this accomplishment,” said Superintendent-Director Brenner. “Brayden has been a model student during his time here at Bay Path and we are incredibly proud of him.”

Therrien is a senior in the Metal Fabrication and Joining Technologies vocational program. 

While pursuing his education in Metal Fabrication, Therrien had extensive training in blueprint reading and worked with advanced fabrication equipment used for punching, bending, rolling and shearing metal to master his fabrication skills.

Additionally, he has received advanced training in the joining technologies of oxygen/acetylene welding, cutting and brazing, shielded metal arc welding, gas metal arc welding, gas tungsten arc welding, resistance spot welding, soldering, and plasma arc cutting.

Therrien has been employed through a cooperative education program at Energy Construction Services in Auburn since his junior year. He specialized in pipe welding and received high scores and positive feedback on his work. 

“Brayden has always been an excellent student and has been a great representative of the shop,” said Metal Fabrication Instructor Chris Wong Kam. “I know he will go on and do some great work for P&G Gillette and I am very proud of him.”

Therrien holds a Massachusetts Department of Transportation/American Welding Society D1.5 Welding certification, OSHA 10 Manufacturing certification, OSHA 10 Construction certification, and a Massachusetts Hot Works certification. 

“Brayden has worked extremely hard while in our program. With that hard work, he has positioned himself to be successful and I cannot wait to see where he goes in life,” said Metal Fabrication Instructor Patrick Fogarty. “He’s definitely going to need sunglasses because his future is bright!”

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