East Coast Fresh, LLC is looking to identify and resolve quality issues with their product, ensuring proper inventory management and efficient operations within their wholesale distribution facility.
Requirements
- Ability to operate warehouse power equipment.
- General understanding of the shipping procedures of a high-volume warehouse operation.
- Solid understanding of produce varieties handled in a wholesale operation.
- Ability to manually inspect produce efficiently for periods of up to or exceeding eight (8) hours.
- Ability to move around the work area freely.
- Frequent lifting of the product up to 50 lbs. during the shift, infrequent lifting to 80 lbs.
Responsibilities
- Conduct daily walk-through of assigned coolers to check the quality of the product and identify any quality issues.
- Check dates of product for proper product rotation by date.
- Remove any distressed product, determine what product needs reworking and what product should be discarded.
- Rework all distressed/damaged products.
- Communicate quality issues to buyers, management, and associates.
- Report all lost products or transfers.
- Assure that all inventory is properly blocked and labeled.
Other
- Prefer High School or GED
- A minimum of two (2) years related experience (knowledge of produce industry preferred).
- Ability to interact with others in a professional manner.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Some stooping and bending required.
