Packaging Associate

Community Servings•Boston, MA

6h•Onsite

About The Position

Community Servings' mission is to actively engage the community to provide medically tailored, nutritious, scratch-made meals to chronically and critically ill individuals and their families. In addition, we are committed to prioritizing racial and economic justice and health equity in all our programs and business practices. We are a dynamic and fast-growing agency at the forefront of the "Food is Medicine" field, providing over 1M medically tailored meals annually to clients and their families experiencing illness and food insecurity in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. In addition, our work strongly focuses on supporting the regional local food system, delivering high-quality nutrition education to the community, and hosting an on-site food-service workforce development program. Over the past 35 years, the agency has provided 13M+ free, scratch-made meals. Primary Responsibilities: The Packaging Associate’s main role will be to execute the daily food packaging and sorting required to feed our clients. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the experience, knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Requirements

High School diploma, GED, or equivalent experience.
Experience working as part of a team.
Comfortable interacting with the public.
Good communication skills.

Responsibilities

Portioning, packaging and labeling meals and meal components
Sorting and organizing packaged food into the appropriate area and by item type
Monitoring and maintaining product inventory levels
Building diet specific bags/boxes for clients
Able to positively engage with and assist volunteers in a task
Actively communicate progress and needs to supervisor and team members.
Takes responsibility for assigned tasks and ensures their timely completion
Maintains organization and cleanliness in work and storage areas
Champions teamwork through words and actions and seeks ways to support teammates.
Proper product storage/labeling/rotation
RTE food handling practices
Knowledge of commercial kitchen equipment use and cleaning
Daily maintenance of work and storage areas
Monitor temperatures and timing of prepared foods
Able to understand daily production sheet
Able to work independently and in teams
Able to work in the dish room as needed
Other tasks as assigned.