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Bulk Packing Team Leader

Kettle Cuisine
Lynn, MA
  • Location: Lynn, MA
  • Position Type: Full-Time
  • Shift: 3rd

    • Delicious Food and Meaningful Careers

    At the heart of our company is a deep passion for creating fresh, healthy, and artisan-quality food that brings people together. We honor the craft of artisan cooking—using scratch-made stocks, hand-chopped herbs, and only the highest-quality ingredients—complemented by cutting-edge technology. This allows us to deliver consistently safe, exceptional products on a large scale.

    But it’s not just about the food. Our culture is built on principles that shape how we grow, both as individuals and as a team. One of our core values, Honoring Development, guides us to actively seek out, celebrate, and nurture one another’s talents, strengths, and interests. By fostering each other’s growth, we strengthen our relationships and capabilities, driving both personal and professional success.

    We also believe in Honoring Each Other. We surround ourselves with passionate people who share our love for great food. Through mutual respect and collaboration, we create an environment where employees are empowered to thrive, building trusting, and rewarding relationships with our clients, partners, and one another.

    If you're looking for a place where your skills, passion, and ideas can flourish, we invite you to explore the opportunities available within our dynamic and supportive team.

    Job Summary

    Schedule: 12:00 AM - 8:00 AM

    To ensure continuous and efficient operation of the production line to meet customer requirements in accordance with Safety, Sanitation, Quality, Quantity and Cost. (SSQQC)

    To manage, coach and develop direct reports to achieve day to day KPIs

    Kettle Cuisine takes the utmost pride in their products and expects each employee to do the same with their work.

    Duties and Responsibilities

    • Adhere to safe working practices at all times
    • Perform daily checks of area for non-compliance and report them to your supervisor
    • Ensure finished product conforms to specifications
    • Manufacture quality products efficiently within time and quantity parameters
    • Drive and motivate team to meet and exceed daily targets and deadlines i.e. UPMH
    • Accurate and timely completion of required documentation to enable clear traceability
    • Follow the company GMP’s
    • Ensure clean and tidy production area at all times
    • Remove out of spec material from production line
    • Complete Date Code and Label checks.
    • Report Downtime to maintenance in a timely manner
    • Plan ahead all activities to reduce downtime
    • Record data.
    • Manage ERP system transactions.
    • Manage employees work schedules, breaks and tardiness
    • Communicate and update all relevant parties of any issues or changes
    • Conduct Weekly team brief with direct reports
    • Monitor and action all waste
    • Manage inventory of raw material
    • Manage, coach and develop direct reports.
    • Take active lead with new employees and temporary labor
    • Encourage colleagues to challenge the status quo and drive continuous improvement
    • Take instructions from supervisors.
    • Any other tasks deemed reasonable and reasonably requested by management

    Required Skills

    • 2 years manufacturing experience preferably in the food industry
    • Experience working in temperature controlled settings
    • Experience with perishable items
    • Proven track record in safe working practices
    • Excellent interpersonal skills needed for working in a team environment
    • Goal oriented & well organized
    • Ability to work all scheduled shifts, on time

    Desired Skills

    • Ability to operate a pallet jack / fork lift
    • Able to interact and communicate with the supervisors and team members
    • Ability to lift 50 lbs
    • Passion for food and high quality
    • Excellent attention to detail
    • Effective verbal and written communication skills
    • Time management
    • Leadership - coaching and developing
    • Problem solving
    • Planning and organizing
    • Numeracy skills
    • Bi-lingual preferred

    Responsibility

    As A Leader Within the Kettle Cuisine Team You Are Expected To:

    • Model and support Kettle’s Core Values and safety culture
    • Manage performance of all team members
    • Build a strong, committed, and collaborative team
    • Develop individual team members & their careers
    • Conduct annual reviews and PDPs for all direct team members
    • Create a culture of accountability & performance
    • Drive a focus on quality and continuous improvement
    • Plan work, track results and resolve variances

    Americans with Disabilities Act

    Kettle Cuisine complies with all aspects of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and state disability laws. This means we will not discriminate against qualified individuals with a disability in any phase of the employment relationship including application for employment, hiring, promotions and/or advancement opportunities, termination, compensation, training and any other conditions or privileges of employment.

    Core Values

    Kettle Cuisine takes the utmost pride in its people, products and reputation. Each employee is expected to understand and live our Core Values every day.

    Honor Food - We create and produce the best tasting, safest, all natural recipes that strive for perfection in every batch, from bench to kettle

    Honor Each Other - We seek to develop trusting, respectful and mutually rewarding relationships with all our team members and business partners

    Honor Development - We recognize and nurture each other’s talents, strengths and interests in order to further strengthen and grow our team

    Honor Innovation - We continually strive for creative and sustainable ways to achieve excellence

    Pay Range for Bulk Packing Team Leader

    The Bulk Packing Team Leader base pay range $21-27 USD/hourly. The listed salary range represents Kettle Cuisine’s good faith estimate for this position and represents the minimum and maximum for new hire salaries for the Lynn, MA location only. Ranges will be reviewed on a regular basis. An employee’s rate of pay within the range is determined by their qualifications, relevant experience, and demonstrated performance over time. In addition to those factors, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer. Hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical to allow for future and continued salary growth. The Bulk Packing Team Leader position is eligible for our comprehensive benefits package and is eligible for the annual discretionary bonus program up to 5%. Kettle Cuisine and all its legal entities comply with all federal, state, and local minimum wage laws.
Posted 2025-12-18

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