Field-Based Food & Beverage Trainer - Travel-Heavy Role

Rusty Lantern Markets; Portland (ME); On-site; USD 68,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Rusty Lantern Markets is seeking a hands-on Food & Beverage Trainer to develop our teams across locations. This field-based role requires coaching, certifying, and driving operational excellence in a fast-paced kitchen environment.

The Trainer will onboard new employees, support ongoing skills development, and help build the next generation of Food & Beverage leaders. Extensive travel across our Maine and New England regions is required.

Qualifications

• Hands-on training experience for kitchen staff and managers.
• Knowledge of food cost, inventory, waste, and quality control.
• Ability to travel extensively within the assigned region.

Responsibilities

• Deliver hands-on training and certification for Food & Beverage team members, Kitchen Leads, Kitchen Managers, and Food & Beverage Managers.
• Coach teams on food quality, recipes, portion control, production planning, food safety, cleanliness, and operational standards.
• Reinforce proper waste, shrink, receiving, inventory, and food cost practices.
• Help managers understand how daily operational decisions impact sales, margin, labor, waste, shrink, and profitability.
• Coach teams on product knowledge, suggestive selling, sampling, customer engagement, promotions, Loyalty, and other sales-building initiatives.
• Support Kitchen Managers and Food & Beverage Managers with leadership and team development.
• Provide hands-on training and support for new products, equipment, programs, SOPs, and company initiatives.
• Identify training and execution opportunities and provide ongoing coaching and follow-up.

Skills

Hands-on training

Training & coaching

Food safety knowledge

Communication skills

Travel readiness

Job description

Rusty Lantern Markets is seeking a hands-on Food & Beverage Trainer to develop our teams across locations. This field-based role requires coaching, certifying, and driving operational excellence in a fast-paced kitchen environment.

The Trainer will onboard new employees, support ongoing skills development, and help build the next generation of Food & Beverage leaders. Extensive travel across our Maine and New England regions is required.