Packaging Supervisor

Location: East Boston, MA (in the Boston Harbor Shipyard)
Schedule: full-time, 8-hour shifts Monday-Friday, first shift (7am-3pm), second shift (3pm-11pm)

Salary Range: 60,000 to 100,000, commensurate with experience

Mission of the role:

Oversee and lead a designated shift of packaging operators while maintaining safety, quality, and efficiency. Continuously foster department improvement through training, communication, and accountability. 

What you’ll do:

• Ensure a safe work environment for all employees on the floor
• Execute canning and kegging operations according to departmental SOPs
• Help drive departmental efficiency through training, projects, scheduling and strong execution.
• Maintain a positive attitude in a fast-paced environment

Who you are:

You’re a disciplined, safety-first employee. You follow SOPs carefully, take ownership of your work, and keep quality top of mind. When things get tough or fall behind, you communicate early and support your team to stay on track. You learn new tasks quickly, ask good questions, and use feedback to improve. You’re comfortable lifting heavy objects repeatedly. You’re able to work in hot, cold, damp, and confined spaces. Above all, you show up reliably, work with integrity, and bring the determination and teamwork needed to help keep our cider flowing.

Bonus points if you:

• Canning/kegging experience
• Experience in ERP Systems
• Bachelor's degree 
• Supervisory or lead experience
• Alcoholic beverage experience
• Forklift experience
   

Don’t check all the boxes? We know there’s no such thing as a perfect candidate, so if this is a role you feel passionate about, we encourage you to apply with a one-page cover letter explaining why this post speaks to you. Drop the “to whom it may concern” and give it to us straight - why you?

What We Offer:

16 PTO days in your first year

Paid holidays

Paid sick days

Paid bereavement leave

Paid parental leave

401(k) with 4% company match

Health & dental insurance from day one

Company-provided short-term disability coverage

Annual PPE stipend

Cider allowance (how big is your fridge?)

All offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, conducted after a conditional job offer has been made. Candidates will have the opportunity to review and respond to any findings.
 

About Downeast Cider:

We first started fermenting batches of cider up at Bates College in 2011.  We have a few more teammates now.  You can now buy our cider in tens of thousands of retailers, not just a couple of bars in central Maine.  It takes us 15 minutes to make a pallet of cider, not the 12 hours it took in the early days.  We’re diversifying beyond cider.  But our aim remains the same:

We aspire to be an enduring company. If we create value for our customers, we create value for ourselves through fulfilling work and robust compensation. To do this requires a work-class brand and a work-class team.  

We define our culture by seven principles. You can read more about those principles here.