Office/Lab Coordinator

Number of employees

15

San Mateo, CA, United States

Posted on: 2023-05-10

Category: food

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Fat is good. "Vegetable" oils are bad. Bad for us. Bad for the planet.

Our mission is simple: to eradicate the use of toxic vegetable oils in our food system. 

These destructive oils are hidden in everything, from salad dressings and condiments, to fast food and Michelin-starred restaurants, accounting for 20% of our daily calories. 

Vegetable oils have been linked to weight gain, diabetes, cancer, cognitive decline, heart disease, autoimmune disease, and more. They increase risk of death by 62% — more than heavy drinking or moderate smoking — and are a leading cause of deforestation and climate change. 

Zero Acre Farms is replacing the most problematic part of our food system with oils and fats that don't make us sick or destroy the planet. 

And we’re doing it by introducing a new category of healthy oils and fats, made by fermentation, not deforestation. 

Fermentation is the original culinary art, after fire. We use this ancient technique in a revolutionary way to produce oils and fats with the lowest levels of bad fats linked to inflammation and disease, while having a small environmental footprint.

As a team of food lovers, nutritionists, innovators, doctors, and PhDs, we’re banding together to save our health and planet without sacrificing the foods we love. 

The world needs an oil change. We hope you join us. 

Why We Exist

We believe a healthier world is possible with better oils and fats.

Vegetable oils account for 20% of our daily calories and have been linked to chronic disease, inflammation, obesity, and cognitive decline, as well as deforestation, biodiversity loss, and climate change, with no end in sight.

Vegetable oils are now the most consumed food in the world behind rice and wheat and are the fastest growing sub sector of global agriculture. More vegetable oil is consumed globally than all beef, chicken, cheese, and shrimp, combined.

The world needs an oil change.

Zero Acre Farms is on a mission to replace destructive vegetable oils in the food system with healthier, more sustainable oils and fats made by fermentation. Our first product, Cultured Oil, just launched DTC as we look ahead to retail, foodservice, and food manufacturing expansion.

Our Team

We’re a team of food lovers, nutrition believers, innovators, doctors, sustainability advocates, PhD’s, and problem solvers. We believe in taking care of our health and our planet’s health without sacrificing the foods we love. We started Zero Acre Farms out of concern for what we’re all involuntarily putting into our bodies and the profound effect it’s having on our health and the natural world.

Zero Acre Farms is backed by an incredible group of investors, including mission-driven VC’s, celebrities, influencers, and change makers.

The Role
Zero Acre Farms is seeking an energetic Office/Lab Coordinator to manage and execute day-to-day operations and logistics at our HQ and R&D lab in San Mateo. The Office/Lab Coordinator is responsible for the organization and execution of office operations, procedures, and resources to facilitate organizational effectiveness and efficiency. The job will require working on site 5 days a week.

Responsibilities:

  • Oversee office functions and administrative responsibilities, including:
    Office Organization
  • Management of consumable supplies and storage
    Conference room management
  • Coordinating with IT team on office computers and printers
  • Landlord/Building interface and management
  • Coordination of any office maintenance work, including custodial services
  • Regulatory signage
  • Breakroom organization and stocking
  • Partner with Lab Manager on all activities to ensure smooth facility operations
  • Support onboarding of new hires with keys, bling, office tours, etc
  • Manage incoming corporate mail
  • Be responsible for handling and coordinating incoming and outgoing shipments
  • Be the office’s primary point of contact
  • Responsible for the ordering, receiving, and organization of office and breakroom supplies, and weekly lunches
  • Help coordinate visitor logistics as needed - room scheduling, food needs, lodging, etc.

You and Your Experience:

  • You have a passion for our mission
  • You are able to work from our San Mateo office Monday-Friday
  • College degree with 2 years of office and/or lab support experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Highly organized, communicative, time efficient, resourceful and tech savvy
  • Service oriented with excellent interpersonal skills
  • Administrative skills including managing mail, invoices, incoming and outgoing shipments, managing office inventories (ordering and organizing), etc.
  • Experience organizing office workflows and establishing and training in office policies and procedures
  • Experience managing third party vendors, custodians, IT, etc.
  • Whatever it takes attitude
  • Ability to move fast while ensuring quality deliverables

A Note From Our Founders

The majority of Americans are sick. Let that sink in. More people have a chronic disease than not in this country! 6 out of 10. And a hundred years ago, almost no one had a chronic disease. Our healthy life expectancy is decreasing for the first time in recorded history. Our solution so far has been more prescription drugs (in 2018, the average American filled eighteen prescriptions).

Our planet is also being destroyed by the day. The Amazon loses about 2 football fields of rainforest every minute, mostly to grow industrial monocrops like seed oils that make us sick. Species extinction is at an all time high. Some projections say we only have 60 harvests left before our soil doesn't support any more life.

The real issue? These problems are interconnected. We're destroying the planet to grow food that makes us sick.

How is this not one of the most important, urgent, and talked about issues of our generation? We want to change that. We want to slow down and ideally reverse the skyrocketing rates of chronic disease and environmental impact caused by what we eat. We truly believe that we can save millions of lives, as well as millions of acres of rainforest, if we are successful in our mission of replacing destructive vegetable oils in our food supply.

That’s what drives us, and we hope you’ll join us.

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