Production Assistant (CFK) at Greater Cleveland Food Bank

Choose a career where you can better someone else’s life, while bettering your own. The Greater Cleveland Food Bank is the largest hunger relief organization in Northeast Ohio having provided over 50 million meals in 2018 to hungry people in Cuyahoga, Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake, Ashland and Richland counties. The organization’s mission is to ensure that everyone in these communities has the nutritious food they need every day.

Apply for a position at Greater Cleveland Food Bank where we offer a culture of learning and development, competitive pay and amazing benefits including Low Cost Medical, Dental, Vision, Short-Term and Long Term Disability, Life Insurance, Generous Retirement Plan and Holiday Pay all starting on first day of hire and paid time off which starts after 90 days.

SUMMARY 

Assists with Cold Menu production responsibilities, including directing and supervising volunteers. Fulfills outbound orders (adding completed pans to carts), routes and stages carts for delivery. Provides support to the Inventory Specialist for vendor deliveries, put-away, and ingredient material staging for pre-production.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. This list is not all-inclusive and other duties may be assigned.

Production Responsibilities

• Greets, trains volunteers and supervises production of Cold Menu kits.

• Assists in the Cold Menu assembly area with restocking, product rotation, and movement of finished product to designated areas.  

• Monitors volunteer work for quality and completeness.

• Documents any/all required HACCP steps in the production process.

• Assists cooks in production of CFK Hot and Combo meals inside the kitchen as required.

Order Fulfillment Responsibilities:

• Fulfills orders for all CFK customers by adding completed pans to order carts, checking and routing finished orders, and moving completed orders to designated areas for transportation.

• Assists and/or supervises volunteers in the final assembly/build of outbound CFK orders (expediting).

• Manages inventory and sanitation for all order delivery equipment. Culls broken equipment for disposal. Collects soiled inbound delivery equipment outside of the delivery equipment rotation.

• Assembles and/or supervises volunteers in the assembly of cold and dry components for CFK Hot and Combo meals. Stages assembled components in designated storage areas or on the correct outbound order.

Inventory Responsibilities:

• Assists Inventory Specialist in receiving deliveries from vendors and product orders from the food bank. Puts away product in designated storage areas in a timely manner to maintain cold chain as required. Rotates product inventory upon receipt to reflect First in First Out (FIFO) or First Expired First Out (FEFO) as required. 

• Utilizing kitchen inventory/production software, updates inventory/production/fulfillment orders as required and complete cycle counts of inventory on daily/weekly basis.

• Assists in properly maintaining designated CFK storage areas for cleanliness as per regulations. Performs deep cleaning as required and address all plant tags for storage areas prior to production.

• Assists in daily pre-production staging of inventory.

Other duties

• Performs other duties and special projects as assigned.

• Participates in general kitchen sanitation as required

Qualifications

HS Diploma or GED preferred. Minimum, one (1) to two (2) years warehousing, order fulfillment, or food distribution setting. Experience using inventory software and completing inventory documentation in EXCEL preferred. ServSafe Certified preferred, but not required. Tow Motor experience preferred

Don’t just apply for a job, apply at the Greater Cleveland Food Bank where our passion is feeding those in need and feeding the need for purposeful work. At the Food Bank diversity and inclusion are an important element of our culture and our organizational success.

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