Food Rescue Driver Assistants - Fit, Early Birds Wanted.

Go Eco Food Rescue drivers & assistants are out on the road 5 days a week, rescuing food around Kirikiriroa and delivering it directly to community centre based Free Stores.

• You will start each day at our Frankton depot at 6:30am, before hitting the road. Your day will involve accompanying our driver, and helping to pick up, and drop off crates and boxes of food.
• We require you to be able to lift upto 15kgs at a time.
• We require you to wear comfy clothing, closed in shoes and we will provide you with a hi-vis vest to wear while on the job.
• The ability to drive a manual with a full license would be of advantage - in case a back-up driver is required.

This Role includes the following tasks –

• Loading food from supermarkets onto our trucks
• Assisting in the distribution of food to our local community centre recipients.
• Logging the details such as weight and type of food into our data system
• Returning to the depot and cleaning down the truck, crates and setting up for the next day’s shift.
• Support and help with any deliveries that may be received.
• Liaise with food donors/recipient charities.
• Represent Go Eco Food Rescue in a positive manner in all dealings with donors, recipients, and the public.

Overview of our organisation: Go Eco is a non-profit organisation, that for the last 30 years has supported community aspirations for our environment. We have a vision of healthy environments supported by thriving communities - and are a voice for the environment, a centre for learning and a catalyst for change. Our Food Rescue service is our largest climate action project; it’s a social solution to an environmental problem.
In the last financial year, we rescued 379, 621kgs of food - the equivalent of over 1 million meals.
Our volunteers played a massive role in that achievement.