Shipper

Description

• 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, offering career paths in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, California, Washington, and Maryland.

Job Summary

Schedule: 3:00 PM - 11:00 PM ( two-weeks training 7:00 AM-3:00 PM )

To ensure continuous and efficient operation of the shipping, billing and cycle-count duties. Kettle Cuisine takes the utmost pride in their products and expects each employee to do the same with their work.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Adhere to safe working practices at all times
• Perform daily checks of area for non-compliance and report them to your manager
• Ensure bill of ladings are completed accurately and on-time.
• Complete nightly cycle-counts
• Load vehicles timely, accurately and efficiently
• Organize and prioritize pick-order for the night
• Notify planning of any unforeseen shorts.
• Accurate and timely completion of required documentation to enable clear traceability
• Follow the company GMP’s
• Ensure clean and tidy shipping office at all times
• Plan ahead all activities to reduce downtime
• Record data.
• Manage ERP system transactions.
• 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 1st shift lead.
• Pack customer samples correctly and ship accurately for customer shipments from production stock via UPS/FedEx.
• Follow up on all orders daily and assist on lead time.
  
  

Required Skills

• 1 year of manufacturing experience preferably in the food industry
• Experience working in temperature controlled settings
• Experience with perishable items
• Proven track record in safe working practices
• Excellent interpersonal skills needed for working in a team environment
• Goal oriented & well organized
• Ability to work all scheduled shifts, on time
• Ability to operate a pallet jack / fork lift
• Able to interact and communicate with the supervisors and team members
• Ability to lift 50 lbs
• Passion for food and high quality
• Excellent attention to detail
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Good telephone skills
• Time management
• Problem solving
• Planning and organizing
• Numeracy skills
• Bi-lingual preferred
• Positive attitude and motivated by contributing to the overall success of the team
• Creative problem solving skills
• Obsessive attention to detail, well organized and able to juggle many projects at once
• Comfortable moving at a fast pace and in ambiguous environments
• Willing to address difficult situations head on with patience and respect
  
  

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 Shipper

The Shipper base pay range $17.75 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 Shipper 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.