Production Team Lead - Packaging - Evening Shift

Blue Bottle Coffee Inc; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 29,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Blue Bottle Coffee Inc. is looking for a packaging team member to ensure daily production orders are completed and shipped, while training staff and improving packaging workflows.

You will collaborate with the production team, manage inventory, and operate shipping software to generate labels for domestic and international orders. The role reports to the Packaging Leader in a full-time capacity.

Qualifications

• At least 1 year of production experience, preferably in coffee.
• Basic computer skills including email and document handling.
• Proficiency with common office software (Word, Google Docs, Sheets; iWork).

Responsibilities

• Ensure daily production orders are completed and shipped.
• Train and cross-train production team on packaging tasks.
• Lead a team and improve workflows for packaging processes.
• Use shipping software to print domestic and international labels.
• Maintain inventory and reorder points for production items.

Skills

Production experience

Coffee love

Basic computer skills

Tools

Microsoft Word

Google Suite

iWork

Job description

At Blue Bottle, our mission is to connect the world to delicious coffee. From seed to cup, we elevate the craft of coffee in everything we do. We strive to build a better tomorrow by investing in what matters: a sustainable future for our people, the company, and our planet.

This is a full-time position reporting to the Packaging Leader.

The schedule for this role would be Sunday-Thursday 1:00pm-9:30pm.

You Will

• Ensure our daily coffee production orders are complete and shipped each day through direct communication with our production team members and guiding our production progresses throughout the day.
• Train production team members on all packaging tasks using our approved training content, and on-the-job training. Cross-training all team members on packaging processes.
• Help lead a team of talented craftspeople and dedicated production team members. Your systemic improvements will ease your team’s workload and bring clarity to increasingly complex scenarios.
• Use our digital shipping software, while troubleshooting and innovating, as needed to create and print labels both Domestic and International for our coffee and production needs
• Maintain opening/closing checklists and logs, lead daily team huddles, and communicate and troubleshoot any production setbacks.
• Monitor and maintain inventory levels of production supplies. Updating inventory low-level reorder points, and re-order quantities for production items as necessary.
• Collaborate with all members of the coffee production team, professionally, respectfully and with integrity.
• Stock and organize received production materials within the facility, making them accessible for our production team members.
• Label and organize various coffee and coffee packaging to efficiently and successfully fill orders
• Fulfill and pick up all expedited shipping by its assigned pick up time
• Lead by example by blending, bagging and packing coffee with high attention to detail
• Sweep floors, clean bag machines and tables
• Collaborate with all other members of the team, including your Production Leader, professionally, respectfully and with integrity
• Work and support production shifts
• Follow and support all Food Safety, Quality, and Good Manufacturing Practices rules and regulations

You Are

• Excited to help improve work processes for you and your team
• A team player and thrive in environments where teamwork and collaboration are needed to successfully accomplish a task
• A great communicator, both with your team and with your leader
• Committed to building long lasting professional relationships

You Have

• A love and/or respect of delicious coffee
• +1 year production experience, preferably in coffee
• Basic computer skills including: Opening, saving and sending electronic files; experience using email; basic knowledge of Microsoft Word (or similar programs), Google Suite (Google Docs, Google Numbers), iWork (Pages, Numbers, Keynote)
• The ability to read, write and speak English proficiently

Physical Requirements

This role is a physical one and the physical demands outlined below are representative of those that must be met for a team member to be successful in the role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job which we’ve mapped out below.

You have:

• The ability to stand, walk, and sit for long periods of time (at least 8 hours per day and 5 days per week)
• The use of hands to handle or feel, and the ability to reach with hands and arms
• The ability to stoop, kneel, or crouch
• The ability to squat, bend, twist, and reach for items below waist level or above shoulders
• The ability to lift, push/pull, carry, and/or move up to 50 pounds
• The ability to listen and speak
• The ability to climb ladders, stairs, ramps, and uneven floors and/or surfaces as needed
• The ability to have close visual acuity to perform repetitive visual checking, counting, spotting small defects, determining accuracy of numbers and packages
• This role takes place in a production warehouse environment and may involve exposure to environmental conditions, including elevated temperatures from roasting and processing equipment, mechanical noise, and cooler temperatures in storage areas.

A Few Benefits We Offer

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage for eligible employees starting on your first day
• Best-in-class coffee training and continuing education
• Free membership into the Specialty Coffee Association of America and discounts on events (including Expos and Championships)
• 401(k) plan
• Paid time off & paid volunteer hours
• 50% discount on all products, both online and in-cafe; this includes food, beverages, whole-bean coffee, and merchandise
• Flexible spending account & commuter benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Additional benefits information

$25.75 - $25.75 an hour

At Blue Bottle Coffee, you’ll be a vital part of our guests’ experience and a crucial link in delivering the most delicious coffee we can find to every person who walks through our doors, be it in person or online. If you’re ready to bring beautiful and thoughtfully rendered experiences to life,

Blue Bottle is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value an open mind, dedication to work, and a collaborative spirit. We hire based on these qualities, a job’s requirements, our business’s needs, and an applicant’s qualifications. We do not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind in the hiring process or in the workplace.

We comply with the ADA and provide reasonable accommodations that allow qualified applicants/employees to perform the essential functions of the job. We also provide reasonable religious accommodations to applicants/employees to allow them to practice their bona fide religious beliefs. To request an accommodation, contact your People Partner.

We may refuse to hire relatives of present employees if doing so could result in actual or potential problems in supervision, security, safety, or morale, or if doing so could create other conflicts of interest.

We will consider employment-qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

We participate in E-Verify. We will provide the federal government with employees’ Form I-9 information to confirm authorization to work in the U.S. We will only use E-Verify once an employee has accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.