Receiver

Premier ProduceOne; Westbrook (ME); On-site; USD 30,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible start times

Flexible workday schedules

Job summary

Native Maine Produce & Specialty Foods (Native Maine) is looking for a Warehouse Receiving Team Member in Westbrook, ME to help ensure accurate receiving and safe handling of products. The role involves quality checks, documentation, and moving goods to storage using a forklift.

You will join a team focused on accuracy and efficiency with flexible start times and workday schedules, supporting our distribution to Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.

Qualifications

• Excellent attention to detail.
• Safety conscious with a heads-up attitude.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, team-based environment.
• Adhere to all safety guidelines and requirements.
• Dependable and punctual.
• Previous warehouse receiving experience with forklift use is helpful.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Verify quality of incoming products to meet standards and USDA requirements.
• Verify quantities and ensure counts match receiving docs.
• Report variances to adjust inventory in the system.
• Move received product to proper slots using a forklift.
• Complete daily receiving paperwork.
• Document products not meeting quality standards and communicate issues.
• Replenish pick slots for day and night operations.

Skills

Attention to detail

Safety conscious

Team-based environment

Safety guidelines adherence

Dependable and punctual

Forklift experience helpful

Effective communication

Tools

Forklift operation

Job description

Job Details: Job Location: Native Maine - Westbrook, ME 04092, Position Type: Full Time, Salary Range: $22.00 - $26.00 Hourly, About Native Maine

Native Maine Produce & Specialty Foods (Native Maine) is a leading New England wholesale food distributor based in Westbrook, Maine serving businesses throughout Maine, New Hampshire & Massachusetts with delivery of fresh produce, dairy, meats & specialty foods. Stocking over 3,000 food products from Maine and around the globe, we provide our customers quality, in-stock products and exceptional customer service.

Warehouse Receiving Team Member

Our Warehouse Receivers are responsible for quality assurance on incoming products, accurate counting, and putting products away into storage. We work as part of a team to safely, accurately, and efficiently receive products to fulfill customer needs. We offer flexible start times and workday schedules.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Verify Quality of products being received meet standards to include but not limited to meeting USDA requirements and visual quality inspections to meet customer standards.
• Verify quantity of each product to ensure physical count agrees with receiving documentation.
• Report any variances so that inventory levels are accurately adjusted in the system.
• Move received product from the dock into the proper warehouse slots using forklift.
• Complete required paperwork for daily receiving
• Document and communicate any products that do not meet quality standards.
• Replenish pick slots for day or nights selection operations.

Qualifications: Experience/Skills/Requirements

• Excellent attention to detail
• Safety conscious ‘heads-up attitude/approach
• Ability to work effectively in a fast paced, team-based environment.
• Adhere to all safety guidelines/requirements, including proper body mechanics.
• Dependable and punctual
• Previous warehouse receiving experience with forklift use is helpful.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills

Physical and Mental Demands

Physical and mental ability to perform the duties of this job include physical ability to lift product of varying weights of up to 65 lbs. from and to multiple levels, including above shoulder and at floor level on a frequent basis; ability to push, pull reach for, and move products using a pallet jack or other material handling equipment; continuous standing for up to 6-12 hours (with normal break schedules); frequent bending, stooping, kneeling, crouching, climbing (stairs) and reaching. Must be able to work in varying temperatures (65°F to 2°F). Ability to concentrate on details, accurately read from printed order lists, use of RF Scan guns and to perform more than one task at a time, while maintaining receiving accuracy and performance rates. Must be able to communicate professionally and effectively with co-workers and all levels of personnel.

Native Maine Produce is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

Applicants and employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship as a condition of employment.