Receiving Purchasing Specialist

Pay Range: $16.56-$18.00 (Pay information will vary depending upon relevant experience for the position)
Full Time 40 Hours Monday-Friday 6:30am-3:00pm

GENERAL SCOPE: Receives all food products, checks for defects, kosher status and stores effectively in a sanitary environment. Purchases items listed below.  Fills orders for Daycare, all homes for cottages, 6th floor kosher kitchen, and Leo’s Deli.

EDUCATION / QUALIFICATION: High school diploma or GED preferred. Must be able to read, write, add, subtract, communicate understandably in English and follow directions.  Must be computer literate.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Sanitation

• Check all coolers for outdated items.  Make sure all food is labeled and dated.
• Set up mop buckets, one hot soapy water/one hot rinse water.
• Mop all coolers and the back hallway.
• Wipe off ice cream coolers including the top of the ice cream coolers.
• Wipes doors of walk-in coolers.
• Cleans areas and makes room for new stock before it comes in.
• Mops coolers, storeroom, and back hall area where boxes are broken down.

Receiving

• Rotate all bread by putting older bread in a position in which it will be used first.
• Receives all orders and verifies with supervisor.
• Examine all stock, looks for dented cans, open products and frozen goods that are not frozen.
• Sets defective products aside.
• Rotates all products as new ones are received.
• Labels all new products if not already marked and dated.
• Cleans milk storage area before milk arrives.  Put away milk order as soon as possible.
• Checks coolers and records temperatures.

Purchasing

• Purchasing of all bakery items needed for weekly catering, special events and holidays
• Purchasing of all dairy items including milk, yogurt, sour cream, cottage cheese, etc.
• Purchasing of all paper goods for tower, catering, and Leo’s Deli
• Purchasing of all ice cream from dairy.
• Back fills all out of stock items and informs management of shortages.
• Signs off on all received items for billing purposes.
• All other job duties as assigned.

EXPERIENCE: Food Service experience is preferred but not essential.

This description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities but constitutes a general definition of position scope.

Jewish Home is committed to equal employment opportunity. We will not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on any legally-recognized basis [“protected class”] including, but not limited to: veteran status, uniform service member status, race, color, religion, sex, sexual identity, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information or any other protected class under federal, state, or local law.