08/01/2026
The Strong Kitchen is hiring for a Production Lead.!
We’re hiring a Production Lead for our prepared meal service.
The kitchen is growing, and we need someone to run our meal assembly — not just pack meals, but lead the team that does.
Here’s the short version:
📍 Hamden, CT (109 Sanford St)
📅 Mon, Thu, Fri, Sat — four 8-hour days
🌙 No nights.
💵 $25-30/hr
🎓 90-day structured training.
🍳 No kitchen experience required. Leadership qualities a must.
What you’d do
✅Thursday, Friday, Saturday — you run the meal assembly. Print and verify labels, portion proteins and sauces to spec, direct the assembly line, run the sealer, keep the cold room organized and up to food-safety standard, and lead end-of-week bagging. You assign stations, set the pace, and hold the quality bar.
✅Monday is order pickup day. You handle customer pickups — greeting people, pulling their orders, sending them out happy. You also receive product delivery: checking every item against the invoice, temping cold product, rejecting anything that isn’t right, and getting it stored correctly. It’s a lighter, more independent day.
Most of all, across all four days: you’d develop the team. That’s the part of this job we care about most.
We’re looking for character above all else:
-Stays calm under pressure
-Excellent communicator
-Enjoys responsibility
-Loves leading and building others up
If you’ve led a small team anywhere — a school kitchen, a senior living dining room, a deli counter, a production floor, a retail shift, a military unit — we’d love to hear from you.
Click link below to submit your application (must sign into Google)⬇️
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHK_hE-pnHlbQyRg6Se6AvoT8nfQwSApI_XSGIjFC7E2Ex_g/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=101900471069173683613
