Receiving Team Member - Part-time

Lancaster Farm Fresh Cooperative is a nonprofit organic farmers’ cooperative of over 100 farmers in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. We focus on creating healthy, high-quality foods from our highly maintained and enriched soils on our small scale family farms. LFFC serves all of Eastern Pennsylvania, New York City, and most of the tri state area by connecting the farmer and customer, delivering the best local organic produce, value added products, and humanely raised and pastured animal products to retail establishments, co-ops, restaurants, and institutions.

Summary
The purpose of this job is to support the receiving operations and to ensure operations run smoothly with little to zero error so that inventory is accurate. This is a seasonal position allowing for up to full time hours during the height of the season.

Duties/Responsibilities
•    Completes all daily receiving tasks including unloading trucks and breakdown of product
•    Verifies exact quantities on all inbound product and supplies
•    Places product ID labels and pallet tags on received product
•    Facilitates re-loading of any rejected product
•    Guarantees all equipment is reloaded
•    Communicates any receiving discrepancies or quality control issues to Receiving Lead
•    Makes sure products are properly stored
•    Ensures proper handling and rotation requirements of food product
•    Supports the monitoring of product quality
•    Maintains and adheres to food safety policies and practices
•    Follows safe work practices and maintains a safe work area
•    Enjoys working within a team and being a team player

Requirements •    At least 1 year of experience in a similar role. •    Ability to stand for long periods of time and work in a refrigerated warehouse environment. •    Detail oriented, exact and accurate. •    Effective communication skills. •    Must be able to identify and distinguish colors for grading produce.

Skills/Abilities •    Computer skills working with scanners •    Good interpersonal skills •    Ability to clearly convey information

This job description is intended to describe the general requirements for the performance of this job. It is not a complete statement of duties, responsibilities or requirements. Other duties, not listed here, may be assigned as necessary to ensure the proper operations of the team.