Night Picker

About Hardies

Hardie’s Fresh Foods has been delivering the freshest produce and finest specialty ingredients to Texas kitchens for over 80 years. Family-owned and Texas-proud, Hardie’s started with a single truck and a passion for quality. Today, we’re a trusted partner to chefs, restaurants, and food service professionals across the Lone Star State—supplying everything from peak-season fruits and vegetables to artisan cheeses, premium olive oils, chocolates, and center-of-the-plate proteins like meats and seafood.

With deep relationships across local farms and global producers, we stay ahead of culinary trends while staying true to what matters: dependable service, outstanding quality, and helping chefs create memorable menus. Rooted in tradition, driven by innovation—Hardie’s is here to fuel kitchens with the ingredients that make food shine.

Hardie’s Fresh Foods has been delivering the freshest produce and finest specialty ingredients to Texas kitchens for over 80 years. Family-owned and Texas-proud, Hardie’s started with a single truck and a passion for quality. Today, we’re a trusted partner to chefs, restaurants, and food service professionals across the Lone Star State—supplying everything from peak-season fruits and vegetables to artisan cheeses, premium olive oils, chocolates, and center-of-the-plate proteins like meats and seafood.

With deep relationships across local farms and global producers, we stay ahead of culinary trends while staying true to what matters: dependable service, outstanding quality, and helping chefs create memorable menus. Rooted in tradition, driven by innovation—Hardie’s is here to fuel kitchens with the ingredients that make food shine.

Night Picker is responsible for safely identifying, selecting, and loading product into trucks appropriately for routing and delivery to the customer.

• Uses a scan gun to determine order that needs to be picked, and information where product is located in warehouse, product codes, sequence of deliveries, and special loading instructions.
• Affixes shipping labels on cartons.
• Examines outgoing product to ensure quality of product meets specifications.
• Selects, picks, and palletized product by hand and loads into trucks in doors as assigned.
• Position merchandise so that proper stacking rules are employed and light cartons are positioned above heavier items.
• Weighs certain items and records weight for company records.
• General housekeeping of the shipping dock, aisles, and coolers.
• Safely load trucks nightly efficiently and error free.
• Responsible for adhering to food security, food safety regulations and policies (SQF, HACCP, CGMPs)
• Other work as assigned by Supervisor/Lead

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Certified to operate a pallet jack
• Able to lift at a minimum of 45-50lbs consistently
• Able to read product codes and special instructions for orders
• Work in cold temperatures ranging from
  -0 to 35 degrees
• Fast Paced Environment
• Work Schedule (Sunday - Friday 6/:30pm - until last truck is loaded)

• Previous warehouse experience
• Produce Experience
• RF Scanner

The above job description is not an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties as assigned by their supervisor.

• Paid Vacations, Paid Holidays
• Health, Dental and Medical Benefits
• Weekly pay
• Life Insurance
• 5% above cost for our high-quality food products
• Employee discounts for travel and events
• 401k
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

The Chefs' Warehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate based on actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities and general treatment during employment. We are dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce.