Food Receiving Clerk

A unique opportunity exists to join a team in creating a vibrant senior learning community on the campus of Purchase College, State University of New York. The residents of this university-based retirement community will be able to enjoy the many amenities of the college including the renowned Neuberger Museum of Art, the Performing Arts Center, the academic and athletic facilities, and the park-like campus. They will be able to enjoy all these benefits while living in a village designed specifically for their interests and needs. As part of the Purchase College community, Broadview residents will enjoy both formal and informal programming and collaborative opportunities designed to promote intergenerational engagement with members of the college community, ranging from classes and mentoring to providing employment opportunities for students. Broadview will offer the full continuum of services, inclusive of Independent Living, Assisted Living, Enhanced Assisted Living, and Memory Care. The community is slated to open to residents in the 3rd quarter of 2023.

INCLUSIVE AND COLLABORATIVE CULTURE:

We are dedicated to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion. Diversity is the commitment to a community of equity and access through the acceptance of all aspects of human difference. This includes but is not limited to age, disability, race, ethnicity, gender, gender expression and identity, language heritage, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, socioeconomic status, status as a veteran and worldview. Broadview at Purchase College is proud to be SAGE CARE certified, and all employees will be provided with SAGE CARE training. Broadview at Purchase College is committed to integrating various cultural and social perspectives to engender excellence and to creating a collaborative culture to provide an exceptional experience for every employee and resident.

JOB SUMMARY:

The Receiving Clerk performs the activities of receiving and storing food/ non-food deliveries. This position will need to have the ability to ensure invoices match delivery items, recognize food that arrives below quality standards, and ensure that food is stored according to health department standards. This position must be able to communicate with food and beverage staff and possess a strong teamwork mentality.

PRINCIPLE DUTIES:

Essential Job Duties but not limited to:

• Performs under the direction of supervisory personnel, receiving, storing of food and nonfood deliveries.
• Ensures food items are dated and rotated according to FIFO.
• Performs daily inventory to make sure all pars are met with all food and non-food products.
• Performs monthly inventories under the direction of the executive chef and sous chefs
• Communicates par shortages with the Executive Chef and Sous Chefs
• Focuses on keeping walk ins, freezers, and dry storage organized, clean and up to sanitation standards.
• Keeps refrigerator temperature logs filled out daily while making sure all refrigeration is at proper temperatures.
• Bring food/ nonfood supplies to specific areas as needed.
• Maintains standards for personal appearance and cleanliness.
• Places orders for paper goods
• Maintains safe and sanitary conditions.
• Attends in-service training and education sessions as assigned.
• Performs specific work duties and responsibilities as assigned by supervisor.

Hourly Rate for this opportunity is $19-$21 per hour.

HOSPITALITY FOCUS:

The Broadview Senior Living fully embraces a culture of hospitality. To that end, we include the following hospitality promises as a guide for our interpersonal interactions with residents, co-workers, and guests:

• We greet residents, employees, and guests warmly, by name and with a smile.
• We treat everyone with courteous respect.
• We strive to anticipate resident, employee and guest needs and act accordingly.
• We listen and respond enthusiastically in a timely manner.
• We hold ourselves and one another accountable.
• We embrace and value our differences.
• We make residents, employees and guests feel important.
• We ask, “Is there anything else I can do for you?”
• We maintain high levels of professionalism, both in conduct and appearance, at all times.
• We pay attention to details.

WELLNESS FOCUS:

The Broadview Senior Living employees are expected to promote a healthy community culture for all residents and employees. This is a whole-person approach to health and wellness which includes eight dimensions of wellness: Emotional, Environmental, Health Services, Intellectual, Physical, Social, Spiritual and Vocational. Through these efforts we can ensure and exceed residents’ wellness needs relating to their mind, body, and soul, which may also have a positive effect on the employees, as a result.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Ability to read and understand invoices.
• Ability to follow health code for storing food.
• Have a strong understanding of forecasting supply needs based on usage.
  • HS Diploma or GED
  • A demonstrated passion for our mission, principals, quality, and hospitality
  • The ability to speak, read and comprehend the English language.
  • Must possess patience and sensitivity to others’ needs; ability to work with community groups; willingness to work beyond normal working hours.
  • Lifts and carries up to 50 lbs.
  • Pushes and pulls up to 50 lbs.
  • Climbs, reaches, bends and twists occasionally
  • Reaches, bends and twists occasionally
  • Sits, stands and walks frequently
  • Ability to work in refrigerated walk ins and freezers.
  • Routinely process written information as in policies and procedures, posted notices, instruction materials, regulations, etc.
  • Routinely complete forms and other written documentation.
  • Routinely recognizes auditory call signals, and emergency alarms
  • Smell
  • Routinely observes odors relevant to food deliveries to ensure freshness of product in the environment.
  • Routinely interacts with individuals highly dependent on vocal communication to, vendors, and co-workers – in circumstances requiring audible and intelligible vocalizations.

EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

· 2 years of food and beverage experience

QUALIFICATIONS:

PHSYICAL REQUIREMENTS:

Physical activities of the position:

SENSORY/COGNITIVE REQUIREMENTS:

This list is not to be inclusive, rather exemplary of times of sensory/cognitive activities involved in performance of job functions.

Recognition/vision and mental processing

Hearing

Verbal communication

BENEFITS:

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Paid Time Off 

401(k)

401(k) matching

Employee assistance program

Flexible spending account

Life insurance

Parental leave

Reduced price employee meals