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Inventory Control Clerk

Kettle Cuisine
Lynn, MA
  • Location: Lynn, MA
  • Position Type: Full-time

    • 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

    The position requires coordinating the maintenance team Mechanic-Planner with the requested parts to complete the jobs on time. The Maintenance Inventory Control Clerk ensures maintenance technicians have the necessary spare parts to make work orders available. The Maintenance Inventory Control Clerk is also expected to schedule a cycle counting of the items available at the maintenance shop inventory and implement maximum and minimum to minimize equipment downtime and impact production. A Maintenance Inventory Control Clerk must deal with different levels of mechanical skills, as well as a cold and hot environment where the equipment is installed.

    Duties and Responsibilities

    • Maintain and improve overall inventory control of spare and replacement parts for use by maintenance and production departments.
    • Manage processes for parts ordering, tracking, storage and retrieval to improve maintenance efficiency, accountability and accuracy.
    • Develop track and drive improvement in key storeroom metrics.
    • Ensure high vendor delivery performance and negotiate fair pricing for goods and services.
    • Performs inventory transactions using the CMMS system to support parts receipts, issues and adjustments.
    • Ensure parts delivery dates are met and expedites orders as required.
    • Ensures all rebuildable spares are tracked and sent off for rebuilds.
    • Performs cycle counts on a regular basis to ensure accuracy of stated on hand inventory values.
    • Analyze and manage inventory stocking levels and ordering rules to minimize material costs while maintaining sufficient stock to minimize equipment down time.
    • Monitors record integrity to ensure accurate vendor, specification and cost information is maintained.
    • Kits together parts for technicians as part of the preparation process for planned work.
    • Generates inventory related reports as required.
    • Manages the Equipment Disposal Order (EDO) process and coordinate elimination of obsolete parts.
    • Receives, stocks, and stores parts received in the storeroom and other storage areas as appropriate.
    • Maintains a safe stockroom area with reasonable access to all parts.
    • Develops and implements parts delivery metrics and enforces standards to ensure high vendor delivery performance.
    • Negotiates with suppliers and service providers to obtain competitively priced quotes for needed parts and maintenance services as necessary.
    • Ensures maintenance department metrics and goals are achieved.

    Required Skills

    • High school diploma or equivalent
    • 5+ years of maintenance/facilities inventory control management
    • Food manufacturing experience preferred Or
    • Equivalent combination of education and experience
    • Computer skills - basic knowledge of computer programs and ability to learn maintenance management systems required
    • 2+ years of CMMS experience strongly preferred
    • Forklift Certified or ability to obtain forklift certification

    Additional Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

    • Ability to train employees
    • Ability to prioritize and follow-through to achieve results
    • High level of personal initiative, self-driven, action and results oriented
    • Thrives in a challenging, entrepreneurial atmosphere; open to change and creating change
    • Strong communication skills, both oral and written
    • Strong organization skills
    • Excellent interpersonal skills, team player, generates enthusiasm, builds effective working relationships at all levels
    • Ability to negotiate and coordinate quality services from suppliers and contractors

    Working Conditions

    • Primary function is accomplished in office / stock room environment
    • Manufacturing environment - Conditions can be wet and cold
    • Must be willing to work all shifts, weekends and some holidays
    • Metrics / Individual Performance Objectives
    • Inventory Accuracy
    • Service Level
    • Cost of Stockouts
    • Vendor Delivery Performance

    Physical Demands/Efforts

    • Computer activities on a daily basis
    • Extensive walking and standing
    • Vision/hearing
    • Talking
    • Repetitive motion (hands/wrists)
    • Climb and balance
    • Lifting up to 50 lbs.

    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 Inventory Control Clerk

    The Inventory Control Clerk base pay range $25-28 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 Inventory Control Clerk 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 2025-12-31

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