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1st Shift Warehouse Associate

Mom's Meals
  • Grinnell, IA
  • Full-time
  • Instant Apply
2 days ago

Job Description

Company Overview
 
Mom’s Meals is a home-delivered meal service providing fully prepared, refrigerated meal solutions direct to homes nationwide since 1999. We provide seniors, patients recovering post-discharge and those managing a chronic condition with tailored nutrition solutions to manage their specific needs. If you are passionate about the well-being of others and have a strong sense of community, Mom’s Meals could be the place for you! We are a family operated business looking for fun, compassionate, and friendly people who want to make a difference in the lives of others.
 
 
EEO
 
Mom’s Meals complies with all applicable federal and state non-discrimination laws. All qualified applicants shall receive consideration for employment without regards to race, religion, national origin, ancestry, color, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or military status.

The Kitchen Warehouse Associate utilizes systematic approaches to loading/unload shipments, ensuring shipments are correct, material handling, maintaining an accurate physical inventory, and assisting with maintaining an organized and safe warehouse.

  • Position Responsibilities may include, but not limited to

  • Responsible for shipping/receiving, material handling and movement, storage, and tracking of raw and finished products and other components into & through the warehouse and freezer
  • Verify incoming/outgoing quantities and description of materials
  • Receive in any/all trucks, load and unload material within warehouse and freezer
  • Scan product in and out to proper location
  • Report any defects, damage, or discrepancies; identify damaged, lost, or missing materials and notifies Lead/Supervisor immediately
  • Ensure First In/First Out practices maintained
  • Operate forklift, scanners, pallet jack, ladders, scissor lift, and other warehouse equipment
  • Check product in from Sysco and cold storage and input into AX/inventory system appropriately
  • Accurately load completed meals to cold storage/Ankeny as requested while correctly completing Bill of Lading
  • Pull and slack frozen product to be used on packaging line
  • Deliver labels, P2’s, pallets, etc. as needed to Plate & Pack, CCRTE, or other production areas as needed
  • Monitor truck temps per our SOPs
  • Maintain clean, organized, and safe work area
  • Help maintain proper warehouse security

    • Required Skills and Experience

    • Previous forklift and scanning experience
    • Candidate will obtain Mom's Meals forklift certification upon hire
    • Ability to work quickly and safely
    • Initiative and ability to work with little supervision
    • General understanding of inventory management
    • Good reading comprehension, basic math & reasoning skills, and basic data entry ability
    • Good time management and prioritization skills
    • Good communication and teamwork skills
    • May learn/use some aspects of AX computer inventory system 

      • Preferred Skills and Experience

      • 2 years' warehouse, shipping/receiving, or material handling experience
      • Previous experience working in a manufacturing and/or food distribution industry

        • Physical Requirements

        • Regularly required to use hands to feel, grab, or operate objects, tools, and controls while reaching with hands and arms
        • Frequently required to stand, communicate, and listen
        • Occasionally required to walk, stoop, kneel or crouch
        • Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
        • Visual perception to perform job including peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
        • Able to perform repetitive movements
        • Able to work in variable temperatures (cold/hot)

Numbers & Facts

LocationGrinnell, IA
Job TypeFull-time

Skills

  • Communication Skillsunmatched
  • Cook Dishesunmatched
  • Data Entryunmatched
  • Depth Perceptionunmatched
  • Distribution Servicesunmatched
  • Establish Prioritiesunmatched
  • FIFOunmatched
  • Fast Foodunmatched
  • Food Deliveryunmatched
  • Food and Beverage Industryunmatched
  • Forkliftunmatched
  • Inventory Managementunmatched
  • Lift/Move 50 Poundsunmatched
  • Loading/Unloadingunmatched
  • Mathematicsunmatched
  • Nutritionunmatched
  • Organizational Skillsunmatched
  • Pallet Jackunmatched
  • Physical Inventoryunmatched
  • Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
  • Service Deliveryunmatched
  • Shipping/Receivingunmatched
  • Slackunmatched
  • Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)unmatched
  • Team Playerunmatched
  • Time Managementunmatched
  • Warehousingunmatched

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