Picker & Packer Wholesale

**Job Description - Picker & Packer Wholesale - J.H. Leavy & Co - Darling Group**

**Shift Pattern to include one weekend shift**

**Job Summary**

This fast-paced role reporting to the Wholesale Manager. It is a hands-on busy role, ensuring that stock is accurately and efficient picked and or packed at all times. You’ll be maintaining records with a high attention to detail. Working smartly and safely, providing an efficient and effective service to our customers ensuring that at all times food safety and quality procedures are followed to J.H. Leavy & Co high levels of professionalism and service delivery.

**Key Relationships**:Wholesale Manager, Warehouse Manager.

**What you will be doing**

**Key Accountabilities**
- Ensure that pick workflow plan is efficiently and accurately delivered on time.
- Accurately follow packing instructions maintaining a reasonable balance between speed and quality.
- Securely wrap items as per the standard before delivery.
- Clearly and effectively communicate across the team.
- Maintain accurate and timely records to meet any compliance standards.
- Updating stock inventory after each item is retrieved.
- Managing stock control, including item replenishment and storage.
- Ensure that the working areas are clean, tidy, and safe at all times.
- All paperwork is collected, accurately completed on time where required.
- Loading delivery vehicles.

**Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)**
- Ensure own personal hygiene, behaviour and health is as per company’s requirements.
- Notify Food Safety & Quality Manager if any evidence of pests or rodents are sighted.
- Adhere to the company’s policies on standards specified for the protection of produce.

**Key organisational responsibilities**
- Adhere to all organisational policies, using Code of Conduct, Corporate policies, Procedures, processes, Systems and Business Conventions when undertaking tasks.
- Represent the company in a professional way at all times.
- Actively participate in team building events.
- Participate in professional and personal development as agreed with dept manager.
- Deliver excellent customer service to both internal and external customers.
- Assist in the ongoing development and achievement of the business by undertaking other tasks as may be required from time to time.
- Read and develop knowledge on both product specific and general industry issues.

**Workplace Safety and Wellbeing and PPE**
- Actively participate in and comply with all health, safety and wellness initiatives and requirements.
- Ensure PPE equipment is in good working order, stored correctly, and any damage or misuse is reported to the Manager.
- Lead a culture of safety and wellbeing, ensuring safety and wellbeing policies and procedures are being adhered and PPE is being used correctly, near misses and accidents are reported accurately and completed as soon as is practicable and inductions are carried out before an employee starts work.
- Continually monitor, review, improve workplace safety and wellbeing systems and processes and report any concerns or ideas to manager.
- Participate in emergency management and business continuity activation as required.

**Contributing to the wider Group**
- Contribute to continuous improvement of in-house systems and procedures.
- Assist with client relationship management where required and attend client and Industry events to support others in the Group.
- Undertake and reasonable other duties as allocated which assist to fulfil the purpose of the position.

**What you will bring skills, abilities, experience and qualifications**
- Previous fresh produce experience is desirable.
- High attention to detail.
- Strong commitment to providing excellent client service for external and internal customers.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills with the ability to balance competing demands and work to deadlines.
- Safety conscious and ideally will have some understanding of food safety & quality compliance standards and/or demonstrated ability to work alongside rigorous workplace standards.
- Competent user of Microsoft Word and Excel.
- Good and confident communicator; skilful in use of language, verbal and in written form.
- Professional approach and manner and think clearly under pressure.
- Effective team player but also able to work unsupervised.
- Able to demonstrate confidentiality and discretion.
- Self-motivated and uses initiative effectively.
- Highly supportive, flexible, and adaptable, uses organisational ability to enhance the effectiveness of others.
- Sound knowledge of the produce industry, general produce understanding an advantage.
- Focused on continuous improvement within the administration, operational, sales and marketing functions.
- Be physically fit as heavy lifting is involved up to 18kg.
- Forklift license is a must.

Pay: $28.00 - $30.00 per hour

Expected hours: No less than 38 per week

**Benefits**:

- Gym membership

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

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