PRODUCE SUPERVISOR

Job Description

We are hiring a Produce Lead for our Brooklyn warehouse. The Produce Lead is the standards-bearer for everything related to produce in our operation. You are accountable for the quality of every piece of produce we receive, store, pick, and pack — and you set the bar for the teams that handle it. This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll be on the floor receiving deliveries, walking the cooler, training associates, and making the calls that determine whether produce can be delivered or shrunk.

Compensation

$20–$25/hour, based on experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the quality standard for all produce in the warehouse.
• Conduct daily quality walks of cooler and pick areas; pull anything that doesn't meet quality standard.
• Oversee produce inventory: verify counts, weights, and quality against inventory. Document issues with photos and notes for the procurement team.
• Enforce FIFO & FEFO rotation from the dock through storage to the pick faces.
• Enforce correct storage by item: temperature, humidity, ethylene separation, stacking limits. Audit cooler organization daily.
• Monitor cooler and freezer temperatures and escalate any equipment issues immediately.
• Own produce shrink: track it and drive it down by attacking root causes (over-ordering, mishandling, poor rotation, supplier quality).
• Lead, train, and coach associates on produce quality & storage. Run shift huddles addressing produce quality topics.
• Build and maintain SOPs for produce receiving, prepping, handling, storage, & packing. Update them as seasons, suppliers, protocols, and products change, and ensure the team is trained on the current version.
• Collect product information from the procurement team and lead product education in the warehouse for new seasonal produce coming online.
• Jump in hands-on with receiving, picking, prepping, stocking, prepping, and cleanup/shrink as the shift demands, and set the standard by example.

Requirements

• 2+ years of produce handling experience (grocery, wholesale, distribution, or farm operations).
• Prior lead, supervisor, or shift-lead experience strongly preferred.
• Deep produce knowledge.
• Comfortable making judgment calls under time pressure and standing behind them.
• Able to work on your feet for 8-10 hours.
• Able to work in refrigeration with temperatures ranging between 36°F-40°F, and occasionally work in our freezer.
• Strong communicator, organized, and genuinely passionate about transforming the food system.

Benefits

Not specified.

Schedule

Not specified.