Production Team Lead

Sacramento, CA
Production – Production /
Full-time /
On-site
Our production team members do an impressive job of preparing and packaging all the delicious coffee delivered to our guests and Digital subscribers. We’re looking for an incredible leader (with sharp attention to detail) to join our dedicated team in bringing delicious Blue Bottle Coffee to guests everywhere.

This is a full-time position reporting to the Packaging Supervisor

You will

    • Ensure coffee gets to the right destination, be it for our online guests or internal retail teams, by working with the your team
    • Help ensure quality standards are always met
    • Use our digital shipping software (troubleshooting and innovating as needed) to create and print stickers (both Domestic and International) for our coffee and production needs
    • 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 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, 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 arm
    • 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 floor and/or surfaces as needed
    • The ability to have close visual acuity to perform repetitive visual checking, counting, spotting small defects, determine accuracy of numbers and package 

A few benefits we offer

    • The hourly Rate is $24.75/hour
    • Health, dental, and vision coverage for eligible employees starting on your first day
    • 401(k) plan
    • Paid time off
    • 50% Discounts on any Blue Bottle food items and merchandise
At Blue Bottle, you’ll be critical to guests enjoying delicious coffee. We aim to provide delightful hospitality to everyone who visits us, in-person or online. If you’re ready to help bring amazing products to life, please apply and join us.

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 consider reasonable accommodation measures that may be necessary for eligible applicants/employees to perform essential functions.

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 conflicts of interest.

We will consider for 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.