Warehouse Associate

Warehouse Support Team Member

CAVA is a category-defining Mediterranean fast-casual restaurant brand, bringing together healthful food and bold, satisfying flavors at scale. Our non-negotiable? Taking care of the people and things that feed us. This is the cornerstone of our company culture and paramount to everything we do and achieve.

Our mission is to bring heart, health, and humanity to food—we do that through hiring great people who care about our commitment to hospitality and generosity.

At CAVA, we serve food you can be proud of. And we employ people you want to grow with. Discover the right opportunity for you and flavor your future.

At CAVA Foods we love what we do, and we manufacture every product to be as fulfilling as the last. At our manufacturing center we are looking for fanatics in food who take pride in our products and are ready to ensure every CAVA Restaurant and retail partner receives products that uphold the high-quality standards of our brand.

We foster a culture built on five core values:

• Generosity First, Always: We lead with kindness. Our best work happens when we act in service of others.
• Constant Curiosity: We are eager to learn, grow, and explore beyond the obvious.
• Act with Agility: We welcome change; it's the only constant. We embrace, adjust, adapt.
• Passion for Positivity: We greet each day with warmth and possibility.
• Collective Ambition: We have high aspirations that are achieved when we work together with a shared purpose.

Love the food at our restaurants? CAVA Foods team members enjoy a Restaurant Meal Benefit that provides free and discounted meals every day of the week.

The Role: As a Warehouse Associate, you will contribute to CAVA's success, receiving and off-loading truckloads of incoming raw materials, maintaining an organized warehouse, picking and packing ordered and transporting truckloads of finished goods between local facilities.

What You Will Do:

• Receive incoming deliveries and properly warehouse raw materials.
• Maintain cleanliness of docks, dry warehouse and cold storage rooms.
• Maintain organization of raw materials and finished good storage locations.
• Support minor maintenance of dock and material handling equipment.
• Using generated work orders, select raw materials from warehouse locations and deliver to processing floor. Maintain documentation as required.
• Pick, pack and palletize outgoing orders and load outbound trucks. Maintain documentation as required.
• Safely transport finished goods to partner facilities in refrigerated straight trucks.
• Support operations in partner facilities, including overseeing post-process packaging, periodic inventory counts and inbound/outbound product coordination.

The Qualifications:

• 2+ years experience working in a warehouse environment
• 2+ years experience operating material handling equipment, including forklifts
• Food manufacturing/warehousing experience preferred.
• Ability to converse with team members in both English and Spanish preferred

Physical Requirements:

• Physical dexterity, ability to lift, up to 60 lbs. and push/pull pump jacks with up to 2,500 lbs. Weight on.
• The ability to work in varied environmental conditions (dry, cold)
• The ability to stand and work on feet for 8 to 10 hours at a time
• Must be able to identify, assess and observe detail
• Ability to communicate with others and exchange information accurately and effectively.
• Ability to squat, kneel, bend and twist
• Ability to work in a constant state of alertness and in a safe manner
• Allergens: We prepare products with milk and sesame containing ingredients. Team members must be able to work with these ingredients.

What We Offer:

• Weekly pay!
• Paid Sick Leave, Community Leave, and Voting Leave
• Health, Dental, Vision, Telemedicine, Pet Insurance plus more!
• 401k enrollment with CAVA contribution
• Casual, focused, and positive work environment
• The opportunity to learn about food safety, food manufacturing, supply chain and equipment operation.

CAVA – Joining "A culture, not a concept"

As an equal opportunity employer, CAVA considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, sex,