Employment

Dear friend,

Living Tree Community Foods is growing and we are seeking people to join our team. If you want to work with brilliant and alive people dedicated to excellence in organic food please send us an email with your resume. We list below some open positions.

With kindness and appreciation,

Jesse Schwartz, Ph.D
President
Living Tree Community Foods
tel: (510) 526-7106 ext.12
fax: (510) 526-9516
jesse@livingtreecommunity.com

Chief Operations Officer
This is for a seasoned professional in the food industry, preferably in the organic sector. Someone who can take charge of the day to day functioning of a small business. This includes scheduling production and supervising sales, accounting, administration and warehousing. Duties also include purchasing and inventory control. This is for someone who possesses the qualities of leadership, charisma and loyalty. Someone with the vaulting optimism that surmounts every obstacle and the tenacity and ability to cope with the intensity of a modern enterprise of a Steve Jobs. Who will set the example for our employees and inspire them to ever greater heights of achievement.

Regional Sales Rep
We are seeking people in the New York – New Jersey area, Chicago, Vancouver, B.C. and in other major metropolitan areas to approach natural foodstores, and live food restaurants and manufacturers on our behalf. Preferably, should have experience in the food industry. Should be well organized, charismatic and enthusiastic.

Creative Sales Rep
This is for someone who enjoys negotiating with professional buyers in natural food stores. You’ll be contacting them primarily by phone from our office in Berkeley. This is for someone can take the initiative and maintain it. Someone who is well organized. Someone who wants to join the organic food industry; it has been growing at about 20% per year for the last two decades.

Assistant Bookkeeper
This is for a bookkeeper with solid small business experience. Preferably, someone who is familiar with MYOB our accounting program or can learn it quickly. We offer a part time position. Hours are flexible.

Assistant Warehouse Manager
This is for someone devoted to excellence in living food. You’ll be making almond butter and other nut butters at our plant in Berkeley. Someone physically fit, devoted to safety on the job and obsessed with sanitation and cleanliness. A friend of hot, soapy water. Someone who delights in food processing machinery and can make minor repairs and adjustments. Should be computer literate and familiar with shipping software. Should excel at keeping production records and statistics.

All
We are seeking teamworkers who are wholehearted and entrepreneurial. Who are also respectful, tactful and courteous. We have been established for over 25 years yet in some respects we resemble a “startup” in terms of our encouragement of creativity and innovation. We are an ethical business and treat people with kindness and respect. Please send your resume as an email and not as an attachment.

Please email resume to jesse@livingtreecommunity.com
(We request that you send your resume as an email and not as an attachment. Thank you.)