Nutrition Driver/Food Pantry Assistant

Position Title: Nutrition Driver/Food Pantry Assistant

Organization: Jewish Family Service of San Diego

Department: Nutrition

Position Type: Full-Time (37.5+ hours/week), Non-Exempt

Work Setting: Fully Onsite

Reports To: Nutrition Operations Manager

Pay Range: $19.75-$20.25/hour

Total Compensation:  

In addition to standard pay, compensation for this position includes:

• Comprehensive, low-cost healthcare coverage for employees
• Generous employer 401(k) contributions
• Employer-covered life insurance

Time Away from Work:

Being able to take time away from work is critical in bringing your best self to work. Time off benefits for this position include:

• Paid vacation time and sick leave
• 15 paid holidays, including Federal and Jewish holidays (as long as the holiday lands on a normal scheduled workday), and floating holidays
• 2 Wellness Days to be taken any time during the year to support employees’ mental wellness

Position Overview: 

JFS is looking for a compassionate, mission-driven individual to join the Nutrition team as the Nutrition Driver/Food Pantry Assistant. In this role, you have the opportunity to use your customer service skills and logistics experience to make a meaningful difference in your community and help change lives across San Diego. The Nutrition Driver/Food Pantry Assistant plays an integral role on the team and supports the entire agency by delivering prepared meals to homebound older adults and supporting our various pantry programs. This position reports directly to the Nutrition Operations Manager and works closely with the Home Delivered Meals team and the rest of the Nutrition team.

Responsibilities:  

• Provide support to volunteers working in the Corner Market to assist shoppers
• Restock the Corner Market as needed, maintaining a neat and organized inventory
• Update stock in the inventory management system
• Assist online order shoppers at their scheduled pickup time
• Assist in the Food Pantry warehouse: assembling packages of groceries and frozen meals for distribution, sorting and storing food donations and fresh rescue donations
• Assist shifts of kitchen volunteers to portion and package frozen meals, and other side work in preparation for the following morning
• Conduct fresh rescue food pickups and assist with gleaning, sorting, and organizing as needed
• Operate manual and electric pallet jacks as well as use a forklift
• Provide safe and nutritious meal delivery to older adults
• Drive company vehicles and adhere to a strict delivery or pickup schedule
• Maintain the temperature of all meals and complying with food safety guidance and monitoring
• Complete pre trip safety inspections
• Complete food temperature logs on route
• Report and client issues or concerns

Skills/Experience/Abilities That Are a Must-Have:

• Must have a valid CA driver's license and willingness to drive company vehicles ranging in size
• Responsible, well organized
• Comfort in using a computerized client management system
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively as part of a team
• Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal, and organizational skills
• Able to work with a wide range of individuals from a diverse socio-economic background and origins
• Clean DMV record
• Ability to push/pull/lift 50 lbs
• Ability to sit, stand, walk, climb stairs
• Ability to provide friendly, client-centered customer service and public interactions
• Ability to drive, inspect and maintain vehicles including catering (hot/cold) trucks

Skills/Abilities We’d Like You to Have:

• Bilingual preferred
• This position is subject to random drug and alcohol testing in accordance with DOT regulations

Physical Requirements:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential duties and responsibilities of this job. As a routine part of work, employees will generally be required to use their hands to manipulate, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls, or operate a vehicle/heavy equipment; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; and talk and hear. This position requires frequently lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling 50 pounds.  Specifi