Plant Manager

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.

Company Summary

Kettle Cuisine is committed to making fresh, healthy, delicious, artisan quality soups, broths, sauces, sides, and center of plate meals, while delivering the highest quality, most consistent, and safest food possible at the pace and scale people need.

Headquartered in Lynn, MA, the Company was founded in 1986 to fill a void in the market and change the soup status quo – making and bringing the freshest, highest quality soups to restaurants that had neither the time nor ability to do it themselves. That entrepreneurial, artisan, pioneering, can-do spirit is Kettle Cuisine’s DNA – and continues to inspire and guide the Company today.

From their humble, start-up roots, Kettle Cuisine has grown strategically and exponentially to be more than makers of soup. Kettle Cuisine is a passionate, innovative food company committed to making fresh, healthy delicious, artisan quality food for all.
The Lynn site is a 260,000 Sq Ft facility with an SQF Level 3 rating and 500 employees.

Today, Kettle Cuisine is proud to partner with a diverse mix of clients—retailers and clubs, restaurants, food service, and national brands who share a love for wholesome, nourishing food. From their five state-of-the-art production facilities in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, California, Maryland, and Washington, Kettle Cuisine’s talented teams proudly serve clients across the U.S.

Position Summary

The Plant Manager position has the overall accountability to lead the production, distribution operations and facilities for the facility. Responsibilities include the leadership and involvement in daily operations, delivering key performance targets in safety, security, quality, environmental programs, productivity, consumer satisfaction, cost contribution management and organizational morale. The successful management of these responsibilities ultimately impacts the overall effectiveness of the plant, its people and organizational culture/morale, the products it produces, the businesses and consumers it services, and the surrounding community in which the plant resides.

Reports to:
Chief Operating Officer

• Communicate and champion the Vision, Mission, Operating Principles, and Strategies of the Company to its team members and other internal/external clients.
• Leadership for implementing reports and controls to manage operations in compliance with established policies and procedures.
• Manage the achievement of key performance indicators by tracking results versus targets for safety, quality, labor efficiency, customer satisfaction, cost/case, productivity, and cost contribution management.
• Analyzes trends and develops opportunities or resolves inefficiencies.
• Lead Daily and weekly process to ensure that factory performance metrics are on track.
• Overall leadership for ensuring production schedules are established, which most effectively…