AddressAre you an enthusiastic person, ready to help distribute food and groceries out to communities in need? We’re on the lookout for a vibrant, experienced Warehouse Assistant to join our Community Food Centre in Ballarat!
We're looking for a reliable and highly motivated Warehouse Assistant to join our team. You’ll be responsible for coordinating storage and dispatch for food and grocery items, facilitating and receiving stock, and keeping our warehouse running smoothly overall. If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.
Why Foodbank:We’ve been putting meals on the table for vulnerable Victorians since 1930. Meeting them where they are, on their terms, with solutions they need. Not only do we provide food to over 450 charities so they can feed their communities, but our direct distribution of free food is growing at a fast rate. From our 18-metre supermarket on a bus and Farms to Families fresh food regional markets, to our School Breakfast Club Program which now services over 1,000 Victorian schools, our coverage is expanding.
Why we’re right for you:You’ll join our vibrant, creative team based in Ballarat, where the community is at the core of everything we do, and people always come first. Our mission is critical, our vision is bold, and our marketing plans are ambitious. You know that cliché ‘no two days are the same’? Ours is more like ‘no two hours are the same’.
What you’ll do:- Unload goods at the Community Food Centre or other distribution points as directed.
- Provide stock take details of goods, pallets or assets as directed.
- Prepare bulk orders and pick items for collection from the Community Food Centre to charities.
- Use a Foodbank van or vehicle to collect donations along with delivery of orders to charities as required.
- Provide assistance and guidance to volunteers, contractors, and staff regarding warehouse operations.
- Perform all duties within Occupational Health and Safety and Food Safety requirements.
- Undertake other warehouse and general duties assigned to you as required.
- Assist in supporting the Community Food Centre management of supermarket client experience when shopping. Ensuring a positive impact on the individuals.
- Undertake housekeeping duties associated with maintenance of the warehouse and other designated areas as directed by your supervisor and/or manager.
- Maintain daily statistical records of warehouse data as required.
- Assist in recording all incoming and outgoing stock.
- Coordinate food pick up and deliveries, additional ad hoc administration tasks as required.
- Ensure that daily receiving logs are completed.
- Ensure accurate records of stock usage and movement are maintained.
- Flexibility in duties to meet business demands and operational changes at FBV.
- Complete required documentation such as bills of lading, work orders and shipping orders using CRM platform/s.
- Undertake other warehouse and general duties assigned to you in line with your skills and experience.
Why you’re right for us:
- You want to be a part of a brand that’s been around for over 90 years, and genuinely share our passion for our vision of healthy food for all.
- Able to live and breathe our values of empowerment, accountability, integrity, respect, diversity and equality.
- Certificate level qualification in warehouse operations highly regarded.
- Minimum 12 months experience in similar environment.
- Previous experience in a food industry warehouse environment highly regarded.
- Demonstrated experience working with the public, providing customer service.
- Good Pronto systems knowledge and experience.
- Good verbal communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Well-developed organisational and time management skills.
- Experience in the use of Microsoft programs, and Stock Management programs, currently Pronto.
- Good numerical and analytical skills.
- Hold and maintain a current Victorian driver’s license, HR preferred, and be prepared to drive.
- Hold a current forklift licence.
- Access to salary packaging benefits to increase your take home pay
- Staff satisfaction rates above 80%
- An organisation focused on employee wellbeing
- Supportive team environment that embraces change and innovation
Keen to apply?
- Please review the Position Description on our website in the ‘Careers’ section at www.foodbankvictoria.org.au and get to know us before you apply
- Applications to include an up-to-date resume and cover letter
- Email your application to **********@foodbankvictoria.org.au
