Porter at Jetro Restaurant Depot, Queens, NY

The Porter position at Jetro Restaurant Depot in Queens, NY is a full-time role built for someone who takes facility safety and cleanliness seriously. In a high-volume warehouse, your daily efforts directly protect both customers and employees from hazards that could cause injury or violate health standards.

Spills, debris, and unsanitized surfaces can become dangerous quickly in a wholesale distribution environment. As a porter, you are the frontline defender against these hazards, ensuring that everyone who walks through the warehouse doors can navigate the facility without risk.

Your primary mission is to keep all key warehouse areas clean, safe, and compliant with health standards. Here's a breakdown of what you'll handle day to day:

• Facility upkeep: Sweep interior and exterior premises, maintain restrooms, and keep windows, doors, coffee areas, and break rooms tidy.
• Hazard control: Quickly address spills or hazardous substances that could endanger employees or visitors.
• Equipment operation: Run a trash compactor, cardboard baler, and floor scrubbing machine as needed.
• Compliance tracking: Maintain and verify daily Sanitation and Cleaning Logs in alignment with the company's HACCP program.
• General maintenance support: Assist with minor paint touchups, cleaning wet pallets, and basic lighting upkeep as assigned by the branch manager.
• Departmental assistance: Help department managers with aisle cleaning and other assigned duties as needed.

The team is looking for a candidate who brings the following to the role:

• Communication skills: Ability to coordinate effectively with department managers and team members.
• Sanitation knowledge: A basic understanding of sanitation guidelines is essential.
• Equipment familiarity: Experience operating floor machines, balers, and compactors is helpful - willingness to learn is equally valued.
• Physical capability: Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds.

To stand out when applying for this warehouse sanitation role, consider these targeted strategies:

• Highlight relevant equipment experience: If you've operated a floor scrubber, pallet jack, or cardboard baler, mention it prominently. Similar machinery experience also demonstrates you can handle industrial equipment safely.
• Emphasize HACCP or food safety awareness: In wholesale food distribution, HACCP compliance matters. If you've worked with food safety logs, temperature monitoring, or sanitation audits, call that out specifically.
• Showcase physical stamina: Porter work is physically demanding. Reference past roles requiring extended standing, lifting, or repetitive movement to show you're prepared.
• Demonstrate reliability: Sanitation logs require daily verification, making consistency critical. A strong attendance record from previous jobs will work in your favor.

If you're dependable, hands-on, and ready to make a tangible difference every day, the Porter role at Jetro Restaurant Depot could be your next great step. Applications are open until December 7, 2026
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