What are the responsibilities and job description for the Material Handler position at Kettle Cuisine?
- Location: Lynn, MA
- Position Type: Full-Time
- Shift: 1st
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: 7:00 AM- 3:00 PM
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.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Always adhere to safe working practices
- 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
- Always Follow the company GMP’S and HCAPP guidelines
- Ensure clean and tidy work areas including the Inspections and surveillance of all packing and storage conditions
- Plan 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 requested by management
- Communicate an end of shift / Hand-off to the next shift
- End of shift clean and equipment check
- 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 / forklift
- Goal oriented & well organized
- Ability to work all scheduled shifts, on time
- Bilingual or English speaking required
- 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
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 Warehouse Material Handler
The Warehouse Material Handler base pay range $19 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 Warehouse Material Handler 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.
Salary : $19