About LiDestri Food and Drink

LiDestri Food and Drink has grown from our roots as a pasta sauce and salsa manufacturer to become an R&D engine, formulating and producing innovative food products for our national and retailer brand partners. A family-run company based in Rochester, NY, LiDestri employs over 1,000 people across three U.S. locations. We have decades-long partnerships with some of the most respected consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies and the most highly inventive retailer brands.

Excellent Pay and Benefits:

• Great career-pathing

• Professional development, including unlimited online training courses

• Health insurance with premium contributions

• Dental, vision, HSA

• 100% company paid life insurance and long-term disability

• 401k – with employer match

• Paid time off to include- vacation, sick pay, wellness time off, and 10 holidays

• Company bonuses

• And many more….

POSITION SUMMARY:

• Ensure deliveries are prepared for shipment or received accurately and timely by performing the following duties.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintain paperwork and communication with drivers regarding loading/unloading of trailers;

• Ensure all paperwork is completed legibly, accurately and timely;

• Receiving Clerk

• Check in all loads;

• Respond to telephone inquiries;

• Verifying seal on incoming loads is correct;

• Monitor refrigerated trucks to ensure proper temperature;

• Accept and sign for UPS/Fed Ex packages;

• Receive in Glass and Pallet trailers;

• Print out following day PO’s and COA’s;

• Print LPN’s for purchase order;

• Shipping Clerk

• Check in all trucks to pick up product;

• Respond to shipping related telephone inquiries;

• Ensure product is staged and ready to be loaded at scheduled pick time;

• Ensure all USDA loads are prepared accurately and all paperwork is scanned to Customs;

• Print out following day’s sales order for staging;

• Report food safety & quality problems to personnel with authority to initiate action.

REQUIRED EDUCATION, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

• High School Diploma or GED;

• Ability to wear personal protective equipment (bump cap, hair net, ear plugs, beard net (if applicable), Kevlar gloves, safety glasses and leather skid resistant work shoes/boots);

• Ability to apply basic math functions and reasoning

• Familiar with use of RF scanners

• Experience using Microsoft Word and Excel

• Able to scan documents to customers and store files electronically in customer folder

• Comfortable processing high volumes of emails and providing quick responses

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to share pertinent information cross-functionally

• Previous experience safely operating a forklift in a fast-paced environment.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Constant exposure to extreme loud noises;

• Constant sitting, entering and exiting the forklift;

• Constant use of fingers and hands;

• Constant exposure to extreme hot/cold (non-weather) environment;

• Constant work in high places and near moving mechanical parts;

• Frequent lifting/carrying <50 pounds;

• Frequent reaching/pulling/bending/climbing stairs/stooping/kneeling/bending;

• Occasionally lifting >50 pounds

• Must follow Good Manufacturing Practice (hair net, no jewelry, no fake nails or eyelashes, no food/drink, gum, etc. in manufacturing plant)

DISCLAIMER: The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed and is not an inclusive summary of job duties and responsibilities. The omission of specific statements of duties or responsibilities does not exclude them from the position. This job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and the employee and is subject to change by the Company as the needs of the Company and requirements of the job change.