Kitchen Lead - 2nd Shift

Cresco Labs•Joliet, IL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Cresco Labs is seeking a Kitchen Lead for the 2nd Shift to join their team. This role involves assisting kitchen agents with daily production using commercial machinery for various products such as gummies, chocolate, fruit chews, coated chocolate "cores", tablets, and in conjunction with metal detection. The Kitchen Lead will actively participate in employee onboarding, performance management, and provide coaching and corrective actions. This position supervises kitchen agents by providing motivation, training, and development, while enforcing strict compliance to standard operating procedures and manufacturing formulas. A key aspect of this role is maintaining a safe and sanitary work environment, ensuring quality objectives are met through regular adherence to GMPs, sanitation audits, food safety checks, and product quality checks. The lead will monitor manufacturing processes, implement corrective action planning when needed, and develop production plans to maintain inventory levels based on sales and operational demand. Additionally, they will ensure proper weekly inventory, logging, and storage of all materials and packaging, and oversee the implementation and training for new products, equipment, and personnel, while also recommending and implementing efficiency improvements.

Requirements

2+ years preferred in food or confectionary processing/manufacturing.
Experience in training, leading and/or mentoring staff or new hires preferred.
Demonstrates an adequate understanding of production machinery; equipment; processing; blending; extraction; shelf-stable products, quality, and/or other requisite technical knowledge
Demonstrates expert knowledge of SOPs, GMP, GDP and other company policies
Demonstrates knowledge of production, pack out, and inventory control procedures/concepts
Requires work around plant material, which could include exposure to plant pollen and/or dust.
Requires ability to sit, stand, kneel, and/or do repetitive actions with your hands for long periods of time.
Requires ability to lift up to 50 lbs to torso level.
Must be 21 years of age or older to apply
Must comply with all legal or company regulations for working in the industry
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis without the need for current or future sponsorship at any time.

Responsibilities

Assist kitchen agents with daily production & using commercial machinery including: Gummies, Chocolate, Fruit chews, Coated chocolate “cores”, Tablets, Metal detection
Actively participates in employee on-boarding, performance management and provides coaching/corrective actions regularly
Supervises kitchen agents by providing motivation, training and development
Enforces strict compliance to standard operating procedures and manufacturing formulas
Always maintains a safe and sanitary work environment
Ensures quality objectives are met including regular adherence to GMPs, performance of sanitation audits, food safety checks and product quality checks
Monitors manufacturing and implements corrective action planning when needed to meet company objectives
Develop production plans to maintain inventory levels as determined by sales and operations demand
Ensures proper weekly inventory, logging and storage of all materials and packaging
Oversees implementation and training for new products, equipment, and personnel
Recommendations and implement efficiency improvements