Skagit Valley’s Best Produce is proud to market potatoes grown by the Smith and Morrison family farms of Western Washington’s Skagit Valley. These third- and fourth-generation farmers strive to protect the agricultural legacy they inherited.
Offering a wide variety of colored potatoes, Skagit Valley’s Best is committed to the relationships we develop with our customers. The company is committed to maintaining the highest levels of production and product safety available. We know providing consumers with nutritious top-quality potatoes helps to preserve one of America’s greatest resource, the family farm.
Skagit Valley’s Best Produce may be the employer you seek. The office is clean and comfortable, and ownership provides the training and tools we need to do our jobs. Everyone works hard here, but we also know how to laugh and have fun together. Please consider joining our team.
We now have an opening for a Shipping and Inventory Manager to join our team in Mount Vernon, WA.
This is a full-time position, Monday through Saturday during the packing season. (Saturday is a shorter day for which occasional back-up coverage may be arranged.) Weekly schedule in summer months is more flexible.
- Oversees shipping and inventory functions of the packing house
- Tracks seed lots
- Remains current on procedures and trends related to areas of responsibility
- Maintains electronic and physical records related to produce inventory and shipping
- Prepares routine reports to keep sales staff, operations manager and owners aware of inventory status
- Communicates with sales associates and operations manager to assure inventory is rotated in a timely manner
- Keeps all information related to produce traceability, by maintaining records of packed inventory and storage data
- Coordinates warehousing, packing and loading of produce orders
- Checks-in drivers picking up product, inputs load details and processes all paperwork related to orders
- Monitors and orders shipping supplies
- Serves as primary contact with truck drivers delivering goods and picking up product
- Tracks seed lots, from receipt to planting
- Staffs front desk, answering telephones and greeting visitors
- Performs other duties and projects, as assigned
- Three year’s related experience
- Intermediate- to advanced-level skill using Microsoft Office programs (advanced Excel)
- Willingness and ability to use other computer programs
- Good working knowledge of mathematical relations and ability to apply these principles
- Ability to modify priorities and adjust to changing demands throughout the day
- Ability to provide courteous service to both internal and external customers
- Ability to analyze data and make conclusions from it
A combination of experience and education may be substituted for certain qualifications.
