Warehouse
THIS IS NOT JUST A JOB. IT IS AN OPPORTUNITY AND A CAREER.
Belong to something. Be part of a team. Move and advance with Gordon Food Service. Our warehouses are the backbone of our operation’s stability and success. Our warehouses are the backbone of our operation's stability and have been essential in contributing to our customers' success for over 120 years. Lots of our employees have moved from the warehouse into sales, finance, transportation and leadership roles.
Our warehouse teams take pride in delivering seamless order processing and delivery to our customers through attentive, accurate product selection, labeling, and packing.
WAREHOUSE OPPORTUNITIES
- Order Selector
- Loader
- Receiving Specialist
- Inventory Control
- Custodial / Sanitation
- Forklift Operator
- Refrigeration Technician
- Warehouse leadership
What Makes Us Different
- Mobility and grow-from-within culture where you can move into different areas and leadership
- Stability, hours, and growth potential with an established, family-run, and growing business
- Positive, high-energy, team-centric, and values-driven work environment
- High-integrity culture of respect and working as a team to get things done right
What we're saying
WAREHOUSE
“What am I doing this for? By me being successful, I help customers get cases and make money for communities.”
“Lots of people move from warehouse to sales, finance, management, transportation, etcetera.”
“This is not just a job: it is an opportunity and a career.”
Transportation
OUR CUSTOMERS GET A SMILE AND A THANK-YOU WITH EVERY DELIVERY.
Valued. Appreciated. Empowered. As part of our transportation team, you may have a license number. But you are not a number. You are part of the family. You are encouraged to speak up, impact change, and grow upward and across our promote-from-within organization.
Whether this is your first driving job or even your last, we have rewarding opportunities for you. As our transportation teammates like to say, at Gordon Food Service you can stay fit. Stay fit, make money, Be happy.
VARIOUS ROUTES AND SCHEDULES
- Delivery Service Representatives deliver 15,000-18,000 kg of product
- Local delivery routes of 10-18 stops per day
- We work with drivers on routes to meet scheduling needs.
- We’re not an over the road organization; local delivery routes have you home every night, and regional delivery routes require only 1 to 2 nights per week in a hotel.
What Makes Us Different
- Interaction that represents the company to the customer multiple times a week
- Opportunity to build your career and grow with the same company
- Sense of pride in what you do, fostered by our everyone-is-important mindset
- Open-door, listening culture where your opinions matter
- Genuinely caring and supportive atmosphere, fostered by our family operation and true customer focus
- Extensive training and generous pay, incentives, and benefits
What we're saying
TRANSPORTATION
“My customers can expect a smile on my face when I arrive at the store, and a thank-you at the end of the delivery.”
“Stay fit, make money, be happy.”
Sales
WORKING HERE HAS MADE ME A BETTER PERSON.
Sales at Gordon Food Service is about building relationships. We set the bar high. At our family-operated company, we are empowered to take the long view in terms of what’s best for our customers. We work harder, dig deeper, and never cut corners—never at our customers’ expense.
Our sales teams become part of our customers’ businesses, helping them to thrive. Our representatives are on the front lines working directly with our customers to consult on menu development, business profitability, and food-safety training. We are at their side. And that involves trust.
SALES CAREER TRACKS
OUTSIDE SALES
Opportunities to service independent customers, regional chains, healthcare, and national multi unit customers.
INSIDE SALES
Supporting our customers from behind the scenes to ensure their order and customer experience are flawless.
CROSS-FUNCTIONAL opportunities
Including marketing, merchandising, and more.
What we're saying
SALES
“Sales in food service is different. This is the right role for those who don’t want to be a ‘sales person.’”
“We work harder, dig deeper, never cut corners, never at the expense of the customer”
“The brass tacks of what you do each day is people dealing with people.”
“Passion for food starts in the kitchen.”
Corporate Functions
WE CREATE OUR OWN STORIES.
Respect. Relationships. Doing things right. We collaborate closely and contribute our many yet distinct talents to support the people who serve our customers. We work hard. Take on different roles. Grow and move where our aspirations take us. And have fun. Be treated well, make true friends, and explore the many career tracks with our tight-knit, supportive team.
Opportunity Areas
Customer Service/Support
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Human Resources
Join the team who finds, hires, and trains our people and serves as a business partner to the company.
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Information Technology
Explore challenging opportunities in infrastructure, application development, architecture, and data services.
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What Makes Us Different
- Superior reputation forged by legacy of family ownership and integrity
- Genuine care and connection with managers and teams in relationship-oriented environment
- Excellent support network, where colleagues look out for each other, personally and professionally
- Opportunity to take on new roles, learn new areas, and cross-pollinate between teams and environments
- Promote-from-within mindset, in which company that works hard to create future opportunities for you
- Authentic atmosphere of trust, respect, flexibility, and empowerment
What we're saying
CORPORATE FUNCTIONS
We’ve made a name for ourselves that we’re an employer of choice in our market. We don’t just talk, we live it.
“We all report to the customer, not a CEO.”
“As a company we ask ourselves, How can we work to ensure those serving our customers are successful and having their best day ever?”