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1st Shift Warehouse Associate

Mom's Meals | A Purfoods Company
Grinnell, IA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/10/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/9/2026
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Position Summary

The Kitchen Warehouse Associate utilizes systematic approaches to loading/unload shipments, ensuring shipments are correct, material handling, maintaining an accurate physical inventory, and assisting with maintaining an organized and safe warehouse.

Position Responsibilities May Include, But Not Limited To

  • Responsible for shipping/receiving, material handling and movement, storage, and tracking of raw and finished products and other components into & through the warehouse and freezer
  • Verify incoming/outgoing quantities and description of materials
  • Receive in any/all trucks, load and unload material within warehouse and freezer
  • Scan product in and out to proper location
  • Report any defects, damage, or discrepancies; identify damaged, lost, or missing materials and notifies Lead/Supervisor immediately
  • Ensure First In/First Out practices maintained
  • Operate forklift, scanners, pallet jack, ladders, scissor lift, and other warehouse equipment
  • Check product in from Sysco and cold storage and input into AX/inventory system appropriately
  • Accurately load completed meals to cold storage/Ankeny as requested while correctly completing Bill of Lading
  • Pull and slack frozen product to be used on packaging line
  • Deliver labels, P2’s, pallets, etc. as needed to Plate & Pack, CCRTE, or other production areas as needed
  • Monitor truck temps per our SOPs
  • Maintain clean, organized, and safe work area
  • Help maintain proper warehouse security

Required Skills And Experience

  • Previous forklift and scanning experience
  • Candidate will obtain Mom's Meals forklift certification upon hire
  • Ability to work quickly and safely
  • Initiative and ability to work with little supervision
  • General understanding of inventory management
  • Good reading comprehension, basic math & reasoning skills, and basic data entry ability
  • Good time management and prioritization skills
  • Good communication and teamwork skills
  • May learn/use some aspects of AX computer inventory system

Preferred Skills And Experience

  • 2 years' warehouse, shipping/receiving, or material handling experience
  • Previous experience working in a manufacturing and/or food distribution industry

Physical Requirements

  • Regularly required to use hands to feel, grab, or operate objects, tools, and controls while reaching with hands and arms
  • Frequently required to stand, communicate, and listen
  • Occasionally required to walk, stoop, kneel or crouch
  • Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
  • Visual perception to perform job including peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
  • Able to perform repetitive movements
  • Able to work in variable temperatures (cold/hot)

Company Overview

Mom’s Meals is a home-delivered meal service providing fully prepared, refrigerated meal solutions direct to homes nationwide for over 25 years. We provide seniors, patients recovering post-discharge and those managing a chronic condition with tailored nutrition solutions to manage their specific needs. If you are passionate about the well-being of others and have a strong sense of community, Mom’s Meals could be the place for you! We are a family operated business looking for fun, compassionate, and friendly people who want to make a difference in the lives of others.

EEO

Mom’s Meals complies with all applicable federal and state non-discrimination laws. All qualified applicants shall receive consideration for employment without regards to race, religion, national origin, ancestry, color, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or military status.

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