Immediate Opening for Operations Associate – 2024

Wanting to get your foot in the door with local food and local farming? The Kansas City Food Hub is immediately looking for a part-time, Operations Associate to distribute our wholesale orders, pack custom retail boxes, aggregate local produce and more. Our Operations Associates focus on maintaining quality, excellent customer service and providing a farm-to-table experience for customers.The Kansas City Food Hub is a farmer-owned, farmer-run cooperative of 30+ small and medium-sized family and non-profit farms aggregating produce, dairy, meat and value-added goods to meet the demands of Kansas City’s local food scene. We move and sell local produce to various customers including schools, restaurants, corporate cafeterias, grocery stores, and non-profit entities. The Kansas City Food Hub improves the economic viability of sustainable local agriculture by coordinating year-round production, supporting emerging and immigrant growers, and by bringing farmers and eaters together.

Role and Responsibilities

• Sort and load wholesale orders in warehouse setting
• Deliver wholesale orders to respective locations in company van/truck
• Pack retail/subscription boxes
• Warehouse cleaning and maintenance
• Complete daily tasks fully, accurately, efficiently
• Communicate effectively with our farmers, buyers, and coworkers
• Work closely with lead operations associate to complete other tasks as required

Qualifications and Requirements

• Clean driving record, valid driver’s license, experience driving large vehicles (Sprinter or 18 passenger van)
• Ability to follow GPS map directions, good sense of direction
• Quick and careful work pace, able to work physically for eight hours
• Able to lift and move 50+ pounds repeatedly
• Excellent verbal communication and problem-solving skills, organized, detail-oriented
• Willingness to follow food safety standards
• Must be at least 18 years old
• NO CDL REQURIED

Time commitment: ~ 10-16 hours/week

Wages: $16.50/hour

Work schedule: Monday-Thursday 7am-6pm availability preferred

Supervised by the Lead Associate

Apply by sending resume or brief work history to thomas.smith@thekcfoodhub.com

Please call Thomas (Director of Operations) at (913) 207-9072 with any questions