Kettle Cuisine
Packaging Associate - 2nd Shift
- Location: Green Bay, WI
- Position Type: Full Time - Hourly
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, offering career paths in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, California, Washington, and Maryland.
Job Summary
This is a second shift opening
Sunday-Thursday, 2:30pm to 11:00pm.
Job Summary
Responsible for operating, cleaning and maintaining multiple pieces of manufacturing equipment. This may include material handling to the production line, set-up, changeover, operation and troubleshooting of all retail packaging equipment (Spiral through Final Case palletizing.
Removes damaged products or supplies, as needed. Position is responsible for production, package, and product changeovers. Maintains required product inspection processes. Performs basic troubleshooting and minor repairs to ensure production equipment runs efficiently.
Position requires lifting, carrying, and pushing/pulling objects weighing up to 50 pounds repeatedly over a long work period.
This position also requires walking or standing most of the time during the shift and may include stooping, crawling and crouching over and under conveyors. Position will be required to work weekends, different shifts and/or holidaysas determined by business needs.
Duties & Essential Job Functions
* Operate and monitor production line(s) to ensure efficiency
• Remove or shift materials and/or finished products to facilitate proper flow
• Ensure package and product quality
• Perform preventative maintenance, clear jams as well as set up for new production runs
• Operate all manufacturing equipment (including new technologies) efficiently and safely
• Clean equipment and area before, during, and after shift
• Maintain clean work area through good housekeeping practices
• Perform cleaning, inspection and lubrication of equipment
• Keep daily records of down time and machine operations
• Work well with others in a team-oriented atmosphere.
• Will be responsible for training other packaging machine operators or cross train other PMOMs
• Regular, reliable, predictable attendance
• Ability to understand and perform equipment changeovers in a timely manner
• Be able to quickly learn and explain the operating principals for assigned equipment
• Understand and perform manufacturer related sanitation and assembly tasks on equipment
• Be able to perform basic technical functions such as removing belts for cleaning and changing out basic damaged components
• Be able to notify and explain to maintenance when the assigned equipment is not running to center line
• Assist in the development of a lubrication schedule for the assigned equipment, and execute the schedule
• Gain a subject matter expert level of understanding of the operational principles of the assigned equipment
• Adhere to safe working practices at all times
• Follow the company GMP’s
• Any other tasks deemed reasonable and reasonably requested by management
Qualifications
• Must possess a degree of technical understanding of mechanical equipment
• Able to work 8 hour shift - Sunday-Thursday
• Excellent interpersonal skills needed for working in a team environment
• Proven track record in safe working practices
• Manufacturing experience preferred (preferably in the food industry)
• Experience working in temperature controlled settings
• Experience with perishable items
• Ability to speak, read and write in English
• Experience with Kettle Cuisine ingredients and soups (preferred)
Other Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Able to interact and communicate with Maintenance, Management and production team members
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs
• Passion for food and high quality
• Excellent attention to detail
• Numeracy skills
• Bi-lingual preferred
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