Preload Supervisor

Preload Supervisor

Location: Shawsheen St, Tewksbury, MA

Schedule: Monday-Friday, 12:30am-8:30am

Employment Type: Full-time Hourly

Pay: $27-$30.00 per hour

Walden Local is the leading brand of sustainable, locally-raised meat on the East Coast. Being a Certified B Corp on a mission to change the meat industry by displacing industrial, factory-farmed meat and seafood with sustainable and ethical alternatives, raised (and caught) locally and humanely by small, independent farmers and fishers. We connect families with farmers by distributing our delicious products directly to thousands of member households, through wholesale channels, and in select local retail locations.

Our mission is to support healthier animals, people, and communities. At Walden we believe in simplicity, doing the right thing for our members, and that the little things matter.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead and develop a team-based packing and loading line
• Manage full and part time team member schedules based on daily workload levels and full time team member vacation days
• Ensure all deliveries are packed accurately with correct frozen, chilled and non-frozen items and proper amount of dry ice
• Ensure all delivery vans are properly loaded accurately and ready to hit on time for their schedule departures
• Problem solve with other department members and research using customer and inventory systems
• Assist departing drivers with questions or details about route/deliveries.
• Coordinate and report to Operations Manager on team development and process changes
• Load and unload freight trucks with products from our partners
• Monitor product inventory levels and rotation and communicate needs
• Complete general warehouse maintenance tasks such as compacting cardboard, preparing dry ice

What You’ll Bring:

• Hands on, let’s get it done, roll up your sleeves attitude
• Passion for our mission and sustainable food/agriculture
• History of excellent work attendance
• Ability to lift and move 50 pounds
• Comfort with working in varying weather conditions
• Willingness to jump in to do whatever needs to get done

Bonus points if you have....

• Pick and pack experience
• Warehouse experience
• Food or agriculture industry experience

What We Offer

• Financial: 401k (starting at 90 days)
• Health & Wellness:
  Medical & Dental, Paid Sick Days, Paid Time Off
• Paid Sick Days, Paid Holidays, Paid Time Off, Volunteer Time Off, Paid Parental Leave
• The Fun Stuff (starts from your first day): up to 5 lbs of free meat weekly, 25% off up to 2 Walden monthly meat subscription memberships, 25% discount at our Boston butcher shop

When You Join Walden...

You’ll be Making Local Work - contributing to a mission-driven startup committed to reinvigorating local agricultural economies, in support of healthier communities, animals and soil. Walden Local is the leading brand of sustainable, pastured, locally-raised meat, connecting families with farmers by distributing directly to thousands of households across the Northeast. We believe in simplicity, doing ridiculous things for our members, and that the little things matter.

We’re building a diverse team that shares these passions. If you’re inspired by ambitious missions and working hard to solve complicated problems, we’d love to meet you!

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer - and celebrate our employees’ differences, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, and Veteran status. Differences make us better.