Kettle Cuisine
Material Handler
- Location: Lynn, MA
- Position Type: Full Time
To ensure continuous and efficient operation of the material handling and issuing process, as well as all subsequent inventory transactions under a very demanding environment
Kettle Cuisine takes the utmost pride in their products and expects each employee to do the same with their work.
Role and Responsibilities
- Adhere to safe working practices at all times
- Perform daily checks of area for non-compliance and report them to your manager
- Retrieve and scan out raw materials from coolers, freezer and warehouse to production rooms
- Communicate and resolve LPN variances
- Follow the company GMP’s and HCAPP guidelines at all times
- Ensure clean and tidy work areas including the Inspections and surveillance of all packing and storage conditions
- Plan ahead all activities to reduce downtime
- Track completed transactions via Material Requirements Report
- Complete cycle-counts when required
- Communicate and update all relevant parties of any issues or changes
- 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
- Communicate an end of shift / Hand-off to the next shift
- End of shift clean and equipment check
Qualifications and Education Requirements
- Able to work under pressure all the time, responding on a fast manner following safety procedures
- Warehouse & Manufacturing experience preferably in the food industry
- Experience working in temperature controlled settings
- Understands Inventory at a conceptual level
- Experience performing inventory transactions via scan gun
- Computer skills
- Ability to operate a pallet jack / fork lift
- Goal oriented & well organized
- Ability to work all scheduled shifts, on time
- Bilingual or English speaking required
Preferred Skills
- Able to interact and communicate with the supervisors and team members
- Ability to lift 50 lbs
- Excellent attention to detail
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Time management
- Planning and organizing
- Numeracy skills
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