Description:
Fruit Ripener - Melbourne(Truganina)
Specifically focus on the fruit ripening process to continually improve the quality and freshness of our Fruit and Vegetables through the ripening process for our stores and customers.
- If you are passionate about quality, you will work with an end to end Fruit & Veg business fueled by passion, driven by innovation and loved by customers every day.
- Inclusive culture with a focus on creating genuine career opportunities
- Opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest and best minds in Australia
We are Woolworths Group
We are Woolworths Group. 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts, and unique perspectives across Australia and New Zealand. Connected by a shared Purpose - 'to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow'. That Purpose fuels our ambition to explore new ideas, make brave commitments, and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week.
If you're excited to turn today's blue-sky thinking into a better tomorrow for future generations, you'll find yourself supported and enriched in a dynamic, inclusive, and empowering workplace. With a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work, and opportunities across the group to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.
What you’ll experience
- A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline – with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network.
- Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work.
- Parental Leave provision - applies to permanent team members, and excludes casual team Members, fixed term team members and contractors.
What you’ll do
- Manage the Fruit ripening process to outrun the optimum quality and colour stage for our stores and customers.
- Effectively monitor and assess Avocados and Bananas delivered to the distribution centre (DC). Conduct daily / weekly retention sampling programs to monitor take at home quality for outturned fruit
- Complete weekly in store checks and monitoring to validate current practices. Apply learnings and adapt to current ripening rhythms
- Provide monthly insights / analysis to the Commercial team through supplier tracking and scorecard measures, develop a greater understanding of the growing conditions & locations of where product comes from to improve the ripening process E2E
- Collaborate with the Commercial Buying Team at all levels to ensure we are delivering the best quality offer for store operations to enhance the customer experience. Actively participate with the Buying team to manage & design the green load scheduling
- Validate the compliance with product quality and labelling specifications set by the Woolworths quality assurance team and Government Legislation
What you’ll bring
- Previous experience in Fruit Ripening, Fruit & Veg Post harvest Processes would be an advantage
- An exceptional knowledge of the fruit ripening process and will be comfortable in working with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Proven experience utilising data to inform the business on commercial decisions including insights around growing regions, product quality and recommendations on buying decisions.
- Be passionate about fruit and veg, agriculture and working as part of a wider team
- Willingness to work set rostered hours; Saturday to Tuesday 10:00pm - 8:30am
Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group
Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.
We encourage all candidates to apply; please let us know in your application if we can support you with any adjustments in the hiring process.