Warehouse Coordinator

**JOB POSTING**

**Warehouse Coordinator**

Reports to: Executive Director

Location: Orangeville, ON

Salary Range: $45,000.00 per year full-time 4 day work week plus employer-paid benefits

Start Date: August 28th, 2023

BACKGROUND:
The Orangeville Food Bank is a not-for-profit agency dedicated to supporting dignified food support to those in need. We provide perishable and non-perishable food through in-person shopping and deliveries, pick up reclamation food from local grocery stores, run a community kitchen program, and support local agencies with a monthly food share. We also pursue proactive solutions designed to end hunger through advocacy and by supporting local farmers and improving our local food system.

JOB FUNCTION:
The Warehouse Manager will operate a warehouse operation dedicated to hunger relief and the promotion of healthy local food access. The Orangeville Food Bank has a common goal of safely providing food to those in need while adhering to strict safety guidelines.

The position is hands-on and must be able to carry out a variety of manual and computer tasks

associated with the receipt, storage and distribution of food products. These tasks include

packing orders, unloading deliveries with a forklift, re-packing food products, operating

warehouse equipment, driving a van or a 26-foot refrigerated truck for food pickups/deliveries

plus general maintenance and cleanup. This position will have some supervisory responsibilities.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Motivate and supervise a dedicated group of volunteers to food handling warehouse operations in a
- manner that fosters an energizing, cooperative environment.
- Effectively communicate the Food Bank’s mission and goals as well as day-to-day tasks.
- Provide ongoing workplace training to volunteers & operations staff members.
- Monitor work performance and offer job performance evaluations.
- Assist with a variety of food warehouse duties including receiving, inspecting, weighing,
- Tagging, and sorting food products, pulling orders, loading orders, and ensuring general
- maintenance and janitorial duties are accomplished.
- Facilitate a culture of continuous improvement.
- Oversee equipment and building/facility needs, maintenance, and repairs.
- Assist in the supervision of volunteers.
- Oversee product flow in and out of the facility and anticipate needs in conjunction with the Food Manager and Volunteer Coordinator.

INVENTORY CONTROL:

- Support the Food Manager with inventory control, ensuring inventory counts are
- conducted accurately.
- Work with the Food Manager to ensure product received and distributed is counted
- accurately and input into our software system accurately.
- Assign appropriate storage locations for products, and ensure those assignments are carried
- out.
- Proactively communicate with the Food Manager about food product needs.

FOOD SAFETY:

- Work in tandem with the Executive Director, Food Manager, Volunteer Coordinator, and Community Kitchen Coordinator on implementing the Food Bank’s food safety plan.
- Ensure the product received is inspected for quality control prior to storage and distribution.
- Assign daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly cleaning assignments, and ensure assignments are completed including sweeping, moping, rafter sweeps, trash removal, temperature checks, vehicle cleaning, and inspections for pest entry points at the base of doors or walls.
- Act as a key coordinator with the Food Manager in food recall situations -overseeing proper product destruction.

CUSTOMER SERVICE:

- Provide excellent customer service to donors and food programs we serve.
- Ensure warehouse staff provides excellent customer service. The Warehouse Coordinator must lead by example to provide exceptional customer service to the volunteers, donors, and staff of food programs that source food items from the Food Bank’s warehouse.
- Assist donors and food programs with unloading or loading products on their vehicles if necessary.

GENERAL WAREHOUSE:

- This position is a hand-on, active managerial position and will actively participate in general
- warehouse activities.
- This position must be able to represent the Food Bank to the media, donors and the public. This may include attending events, speaking to groups, accepting donations and being in photographs.
- Operate a refrigerated truck or van to perform food pickups and deliveries as needed.
- Oversee daily operations of the warehouse and in other activities as required or as assigned by the Executive Director.

**Qualifications**

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

- 2+ years of supervisory experience
- Post-high school education or the equivalent of managerial experience
- Organizational and planning experience
- Food safety handling knowledge and certification preferred

**SKILLS, AND ABILITIES**:

- Excellent communication skills: demonstrated ability to proactively communicate and build
- rapport; listen and react appropriately; give and receiv