Organization: Real Food for Real Kids

Website: www.rfrk.com

Location: East End of Toronto, ON

Job Title: Pack Team Member

Shift: 8am-4pm or 4pm-12am

Compensation: $19 per hour

Perks: 2 weeks paid vacation + 8 Personal Days per year, Group Health Benefits

Real Food for Real Kids (RFRK) is a growing company on a mission to make real food the standard rather than the exception.

A multiple award-winning company recognized for excellence and innovation, we’re a leading healthy catering company for child care centres, schools and camps. RFRK proudly serves nutritious meals and snacks to over 25,000 children throughout the Greater Toronto & Hamilton Area every day.

Our Pack team is looking for a fantastic person who loves to organize and arrange food to join us as a Pack Team Member. If you like the sound of us so far, keep reading to see if you have the experience and skills needed for this rewarding role!

About the Role:

At the Real Food Kitchen, a team of cooks, bakers, kitchen helpers, packers, porters, and Super Drivers help to prepare, pack, and deliver nutritious and delicious meals to feed thousands of kids in the GTA. As a member of the production team, you’ll help support the production staff, and ensure that their tasks are performed effectively and to the highest possible health and safety standards. The Pack Team Member jumps in where they are needed to make sure our food gets to the kids every day.

Main responsibilities include ensuring appropriate items and quantities are packed according to the pack sheet.

Some of the things you’ll get paid to do:

Pack Team Responsibilities

• Fulfill orders according to pack sheets, labels and other reports
• Select fruit and vegetables for clients according to ripeness, and discard rotting and over-ripened produce
• Efficiently and accurately count fruit based on order requirements.
• Monitor product quality, and flag quality issues and shortages to the production manager
• Utilize pallet jack to gather fruit skids, and store fruit skids in designated areas as needed
• Pre-kit meals for children with dietary restrictions
• Efficiently, and accurately gather food items and pack them into bins.
• Fulfill orders according to pack sheets accurately within the required time frame
• Ensure that FIFO guidelines are followed when fulfilling orders
• Complete all necessary paperwork

Assist Production Staff

• Support all production related tasks
• Assist with inventory
• Assist bakery department with packaging baked goods.
• Assist sanitation department with dishes
• Assist the cook department with portioning, weighing, and counting food items.
• Maintain a clean work environment
• Return food items back to stock at the end of shift
• Clean floors, and wipe surfaces
• Dispose of waste in designated waste and recycling bins

About You

• Positive attitude, with a passion to get things done right!
• Respect for food safety practices
• Hard-working
• Punctual
• Works well in a team environment
• Ability to work on your feet for an 8-hour shift
• Ability to repetitively lift a minimum of 25 kg
• Ability to work in cold environments (-10 to 4 degrees Celsius)
• Attention to cleanliness
• Ability to read, write and speak English
• Basic math skills, including: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division

Working at RFRK comes with other perks too:

• Competitive salary
• Employee Savings Program (RRSP/TFSA Matching)
• $500 annually for professional development
• Group Health Benefits (after 3 months of employment)

To apply, please upload your résumé and cover letter, including salary expectations, explaining why you’d be a great fit for this role!

Real Food for Real Kids is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage applications from diverse backgrounds and communities.

Real Food for Real Kids welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

No phone calls or emails, please. We’ll contact applicants that fit the bill, and invite them in for an interview.

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