• Location:   Lynn, MA
• Position Type:   Full-Time

Job Summary

The Culinary R&D Assistant plays a crucial role in supporting research and development chefs in creating innovative products. Responsibilities include maintaining a clean and organized Culinary Center, ensuring development workstations are equipped with necessary tools and materials, preparing R&D samples for shipment, and providing culinary support by preparing and cooking customer samples. Additionally, this role serves as an ambassador for "Honoring Food".

Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintains a neat, sanitized, and organized Culinary Center, including kitchen, pantry, cooler, and freezer space.
• Maintains par levels of stock items to ensure a high level of quality through rotation, labeling, and storage.
• Requisitions and records usage of raw materials/ingredients
• Responsible for setting up kitchen equipment each morning
• Gathers recipes, collates ingredient needs, and garners necessary raw materials from the factory daily.
• Keeps the culinary team supplied with clean and sanitized equipment, and raw materials throughout the day as needed
• Oversee and ensure effectiveness of the sample request program
• Coordinate processing of all product sample orders from request through timely and professional delivery
• Process all incoming product sample requests from Sales Team, Executives, R&D Chefs, QA Teams, and others.
• Work with Cross-Plant Customer Service, Product Development and Shipping Teams to ensure product is pulled and/or manufactured against sample request dates.
• Pack all sample requests to requested specifications, including all corresponding support materials
• Track all samples and alert appropriate team members of any issues or delays to delivery, troubleshooting when necessary to solve critical delivery requirements.
• Additional responsibilities as needed.

 

Required Skills

• High School diploma or GED required.
• Working knowledge of production kitchen and/or factory experience a plus
• On-the-job training of 3-6 months.
• Must have working knowledge of MS Office programs, specifically Excel and Outlook.
• Bilingual English/Spanish a plus.

Desired Skills

• Passion for food
• Experience with pace of restaurant or factory environment a plus
• Possess cleaning and sanitation skills
• Basic knowledge of raw materials/ingredients
• ServSafe certification a plus
• Ability to adapt and multi-task via a dynamic work environment with a positive attitude

 

 

Responsibility

• Works under close supervision and has little or no decision-making responsibility.
• Position is not responsible for influencing the decisions or actions of others.
• Position has indirect contact with customers on matters of little impact on revenue.
• Position has little or no impact on revenue, actions and results are subject to review or inspections.
• Decisions or actions have a limited impact on the business – typically within a department. Errors are usually detected through routine verification/review, but may result in some workflow disruption or repetition of work.
• This role is pivotal in supporting culinary innovation and maintaining high standards within the organization's research and development processes.

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 Culinary R&D Assistant

The Culinary R&D Assistant base pay range $19.00 - 20.00 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 Culinary R&D Assistant position is eligible for our comprehensive benefits package. Kettle Cuisine and all its legal entities comply with all federal, state, and local minimum wage laws.

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