Essential Functions*

• Rotates stock using FIFO guidelines and maintains all storage areas including refrigerators and freezers in a neat, orderly and sanitary manner.

• Prepares and transports goods to food production and service areas as requisitioned and may stock shelves and service refrigerators and freezers as needed.

• Keeps all receiving areas, storage areas, including refrigerators and freezers, and delivery vehicles clean, organized and sanitary.

• Completes general cleaning duties such as floor care, and minor equipment maintenance as needed.

• Adheres to industry accepted safe food handling guidelines, ensures received and stored goods are safe and secure from loss and maintains a safe work area following generally accepted Workplace safety rules.

• Conducts weekly physical inventory as part of a two or three-person team.

• Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge and Skills

• Interpersonal and organizational skills.

• Knowledge of food safety and sanitation.

• Sense of urgency. Excellent verbal skills.

• Excellent multi-tasking skills. Excellent customer service skills.

• High school diploma or GED. Clean professional appearance. 

• Ability to move throughout the café and kitchen.

• Must be able to stand a minimum of 8 hours a day.

Education and Work Experience

• High school diploma or GED.

• At least one (1) year of experience receiving and storing goods or handling food service supplies in a high-volume operation.

• Must have demonstrated basic math skills including food service weights and measures and be able to read and understand receiving lists, packaging labels and vendor invoices.

• Three (3) years of experience receiving and storing goods; and/or prior experience with PC data entry are preferred.

Work Environment 

The work environment for Food Receiver includes the following large kitchen environment elements and exposures.

• Fast paced kitchen.

• Fast paced office environment.

• High sense of urgency.

• Moderate to high noise level.

• Exposure to soap and cleaning solutions.

• Slippery/uneven surfaces may be encountered.

• Frequently moving from cold freezer to normal kitchen environment.

Requirements

• Must have and maintain an active Management Level Food Handlers’ Certification (ServSafe) and adhere to local food handler requirement.  

• Consistently perform all duties in a responsible and efficient manner. 

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Constant handling and fingering of food product.

• Constant grasping of food and food containers.

• Occasionally pushing/pulling pallet jacks carts and dollies.

• Constant lifting and carrying objects up to 40 lbs.

• Items weighing over 40 lbs. must be carried by two (2) people.

• Job requires frequent reaching across surfaces, above shoulders and outward.

• Frequent pushing and pulling of loaded/unloaded carts and pallet jacks.

• Constant good or correctable vision is required to safely perform all duties.

• Frequent standing, walking, bending and twisting are required to perform duties, as well as squatting and kneeling. Good balance required to safety perform all assigned tasks. Neck flexion and usage will be constant while performing assigned tasks.

• Grasping frozen food and containers; working in walk-in freezers and refrigerators.

• Constant use of step ladders.

• Heavy and repetitive hand and arm motion involved.