Packaging Associate

Community Servings' mission is to actively engage the community to provide medically tailored, nutritious, scratch-made meals to chronically and critically ill individuals and their families. In addition, we are committed to prioritizing racial and economic justice and health equity in all our programs and business practices.

We are a dynamic and fast-growing agency at the forefront of the "Food is Medicine" field, providing over 1M medically tailored meals annually to clients and their families experiencing illness and food insecurity in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. In addition, our work strongly focuses on supporting the regional local food system, delivering high-quality nutrition education to the community, and hosting an on-site food-service workforce development program. Over the past 36 years, the agency has provided 15M+ free, scratch-made meals.

Summary: The Packaging Associate’s main role will be to execute the daily food packaging and sorting required to feed our clients. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the experience, knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

In a combination of individual effort and leading volunteer teams, the PA has to complete a variety of daily tasks including but not limited to:

• Portioning, packaging and labeling meals and meal components.
• Sorting and organizing packaged food into the appropriate area and by item type.
• Monitoring and maintaining product inventory levels.
• Building diet specific bags/boxes for clients.

Supervision

None

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the experience, knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Able to positively engage with and assist volunteers in a task.
• Actively communicate progress and needs to supervisor and team members.
• Takes responsibility for assigned tasks and ensures their timely completion.
• Maintains organization and cleanliness in work and storage areas.
• Champions teamwork through words and actions and seeks ways to support teammates.
• Proper product storage/labeling/rotation.
• RTE food handling practices.
• Knowledge of commercial kitchen equipment use and cleaning.
• Daily maintenance of work and storage areas.
• Monitor temperatures and timing of prepared foods.
• Able to understand daily production sheets.
• Able to work independently and in teams.
• Able to work in the dish room as needed.

Education/Experience

• High School diploma, GED, or equivalent experience.
• Must be able to communicate in English
• 1 year of customer service experience preferred
• Experience working as part of a team.
• Comfortable interacting with the public.
• Good communication skills.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This position requires an individual to have the ability to lift to a maximum of 50 lbs. and includes bending and standing for long periods of time. The incumbent must maintain skills necessary to safely and efficiently operate the following equipment and machines used in the performance of this job: Oliver packaging machine, dishwasher. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Community Servings knows that diversity drives excellence. We are a place where everyone is welcome. We celebrate, promote, and derive strength from a diversity of lived experiences. We actively seek and encourage an inclusive workforce.

Community Servings participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. Please refer to the E-Verification Poster (English/Spanish) and Right to Work Poster (English/Spanish) for additional information. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, Community Servings is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before any action is taken against you, including terminating your employment. Community Servings can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed Form I-9.

• Medical and Vision Insurance
• Life-, Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Paid Vacation, Holidays, Sick Time, and Personal Time off
• Flexible Spending account (Medicaland Daycare)
• Tuition reimbursement
• 403(b) Retirement Plan
• Free Dental Insurance
• Free daily community lunch
• Free parking

Must be able to communicate in English