Logistics Specialist

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Do you love food? Do you care about the environment? Join us at Clover!

Our ingredients are sourced from local farms and businesses and are prepared into delicious guilt-free meals without the help of freezers or microwaves. We currently operate 11 restaurants in the Boston area, a Commissary Kitchen in Cambridge, and a local Meal-Box delivery program. As a driver you will help to load, pack, unpack, deliver, and transport product. Generally, our drivers will spend their time transporting food from our commissary kitchen to our restaurants in and delivering Meal Kit Boxes to our customers.

Some of the Logistics Specialists Duties will look like...

• Move large containers of food from the Clover commissary to our food trucks, restaurants, and delivery addresses.
• Load and unload vans
• Deliver Meal Kit Boxes up to 30-miles outside Boston/Cambridge
• Drive a 14-foot van/truck, including parallel-parking and backing into tight loading docks
• Manually hoist heavy items
• Perform vehicle inspections and inventory checks
• Complete and submit paperwork
• Interact professionally with Clover employees and customers
• Assist with the coordination of driver routes and schedules

The hiring manager may invite you to participate in a Practical Interview. This gives you the opportunity to interview us. Applicants experience the job hands on, get to know the staff and gain a better understand Clover culture. Additionally, we use the face-to-face interaction as an opportunity to get to know you better.

Requirements

As a Logistics Specialist you are required to:

• Clean driving record for the past 7 years from the State of Massachusetts
• Ability to become forklift certified within 30 days
• 100% drug-free
• Must be able to pass a road test conducted by Clover leadership
• Must be able to provide an official copy of current driving record and DOT card
• Experience with cleaning and maintenance of vehicles
• Excellent customer service skills
• Strong verbal communication skills
• Stamina to lift heavy items
• Must share a passion for food and hard work, must lift the spirits of those around them
• The ability to stand for prolonged periods of time, and repeated walking, bending, stretching, and lifting 50 pounds or more, with or without reasonable accommodation
• Able to work a varied schedule that includes nights and weekends

Don’t meet every single requirement? We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Clover Food Lab is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against otherwise qualified applicants on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability or handicap, or veteran status.

Benefits

• Pay is $23 per hour
• Full health, vision and dental benefits available to full-time benefit-eligible staff
• Generous discounts on Clover meals, apparel, take-home mealboxes, and an array of local food items sold in our stores
• Accommodating to schedules; part-time and full-time opportunities
• A fun and welcoming work environment with supportive management
• $300 referral bonus when you refer a friend to Clover!
• Opportunity to build a meaningful career - lots of room to grow!
• Free Knife Skills 101, 102, 103 classes (custom knife when you pass 102)
• Free cooking classes (pickling, soup-making, hot sauce making)
• Opportunities to attend food sourcing trips to coffee roasters, farmers, cheese-makers, etc.
• Opportunities to attend food development meetings, contribute ideas/recipes to the menu

If you have questions about this posting, please contact [email protected]