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Location: Long Island City, New York
The Cheese monger is a true caretaker of cheese, ensuring a top quality product. The Cheesemonger’s primary job is to: Sell cheese, engage and build relationships with customers, create visually appealing displays and maintain the displays throughout the day. Receive deliveries, prep and care for the cheese, and organize the storage areas.
QUALIFICATIONS
• Broad and thorough knowledge about cheese and prior experience working in a cheese store.
• Passion for food and learning about food.
• Basic food and cooking knowledge.
• Enjoys cooking.
•Basic knife skills.
• Food handling and preparation experience preferred.
• Possesses natural and exceptional customer service skills.
• Self-motivated
• High energy, gregarious, friendly.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Resourceful, adaptable, thinks quickly on feet.
• Works with a sense of urgency.
• Quick study.
• Be able to work weekends and evening
To apply or learn more, contact metmax@msn.com.
Florida’s first licensed raw milk artisan cheesemaker is offering an equal partnership in Winter Park Dairy in order to greatly expand operations and sales. See winterparkdairy.com for background info and partial customer list.
Please submit letters of interest or resumes to cheese@winterparkdairy.com or fax to 407-671-5882.
Established, well equipped grass based sheep dairy in Cazenovia, NY producing on-farm artisanal yoghurts and award winning cheeses seeks experienced head cheese maker starting April 2012. Commercial acumen and marketing experience a plus. Send resume to resumes@meadowoodfarms.com.
CREAM AND THE CROP CHEESE SELECTIONS, a distributor of fine American artisanal cheese, is interested in representing both small up-and-coming, and established goat’s milk dairies in San Francisco. We specialize in working with smaller dairies–helping get them exposure while bringing exiting new cheese from all over the U.S. the SF Bay Area.
Please go to our website WWW.CREAMANDTHECROPCHEESE.COM
Phone: 408-827-4424
Email: darren@creamandthecropcheese.com
Join our award winning diversified goat dairy operation. Cheesemaking position available with housing and stipend. Job can incorporate responsibilities in the areas of livestock, market gardening and ag education (for children); Specific job descriptions will be crafted to match candidates depending upon skills, background and interests.
Ideal candidates must be hard working, interested in sustainable agriculture. Interns must not be afraid to jump in, take initiative and assume responsibilities. A conscientious individual who follows through, is curious, seeking answers and asking questions, will thrive here. Physical stamina is essential as all positions require heavy lifting from time to time. A balanced ability to work as a team member as well as independently is essential. The ideal candidates will have an educational background in related fields or demonstrated relevant experience.
We value excellence, have high standards and appreciate individuals who can work in a fluid environment. Compensation will be commensurate with experience, drive, initiative and results. Now accepting resumes.
For complete information please go to www.rainbeauridge.com
or email info@rainbeauridge.com
Phone: (914)234-2197
The Grey Barn and Farm is a small, diversified New England farm located on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. We are looking to hire a full-time cheese maker to work in our creamery in the development and production of cheese, yogurts and other dairy products. We are a pasture-fed dairy, are in our last year of organic transition and currently sell raw and pasteurized glass bottled milk.
In this position you will be developing and producing cheese, yogurt and other dairy products. The cheese maker is also responsible for managing all aspects of creamery operations including but not limited to: bottling of milk, record keeping, the staff, cleaning of the creamery and running all testing necessary to stay in compliance with the state. Applicant must be willing to learn the requirements of the USDA organic standards and state regulations. Applicant needs to be a self-motivated, methodical and meticulous individual with a creative desire and a passion for cheese. This is a full-time, permanent position and compensation is negotiable and based on experience. Available immediately. Please email Molly Glasgow for more information or call 508.645.1151
We have outgrown our original De Laval Separator that can process around 750 gallons per hour. This machine works great and was used up until June of 2011 when we purchased a replacement De Laval Separator with much larger capacity.
This machine was used in making more than four milks that were awarded top honors at the World Dairy exposition as well as cheeses that have won awards in many different competitions all over the Country.
The machine is located at our plant in Missouri. Pictures, pricing and more information are available upon request. Please contact us via phone at 913-927-1567 or via email at office@shattomilk.com.
Company Overview:
Haggen, Inc. is a premier retail grocer operating since 1933 delivering the most authentic Northwest food and lifestyle experience to our guests. We bring the highest quality products, most trusted brands and the personal service of our caring employees to the communities we are proud to serve. With our hyper-local format, we are able to connect people to real and honest information provided by specialists, good tasting homemade food and extraordinary traditions and events that bring adventure and delight to your life.
Position Summary:
Our Cheese Specialists are responsible for the sales, promotion, packaging and merchandising of the specialty and gourmet cheese table while providing their expert knowledge to our guests. They develop a professional relationship with the vendor community in order to build an innovative and exciting approach towards sales. Additionally, the Cheese Specialist is responsible for tracking sales, managing the department’s budget, selecting and ordering product, building displays, ordering supplies and managing inventories.
Our ideal candidate:
•Provides excellent customer service, makes customers laugh and SELLS LOTS OF CHEESE
•Is hardworking, never idle
•Is very friendly and gets along well with coworkers
•Has loads of enthusiasm even under pressure
•Is a great team player with a positive attitude
•Is driven to learn
•Is passionate about food…especially CHEESE
Qualifications:
•Successfully completed Haggen / Top Foods Cheese Course.
•Minimum one year food service experience strongly preferred.
•Ability to prioritizes, excellent time management and organizational skills.
•Demonstrates a high level of self-motivation.
•Proven ability to positively affect sales generation.
•Possesses knowledge of food safety.
•Possesses a genuine passion for food.
•Demonstrated ability to work well with diverse groups of people.
•Able to lift and carry unassisted 25 pounds.
•Must be at least 18 years of age due to equipment use and work environment.
•Current state Food Handler’s Permit must be maintained.
•Store is open seven days a week and will require weekend, holiday and shift work.
Experienced pasture based dairy farmer/cheesemaker seeks opportunity to partner with landowner or investor. Open to farm lease or farm transfer relationship and willing to consider other ideas. Experienced with organic production, rotational grazing, artisanal cheesemaking, direct marketing and business management. I want to start a small, unique pasture based dairy farm and, using organic practices, produce and direct market farmstead cheeses. I have my own animals and 10+ years experience. Call 717-759-0072 or email creagerstown@gmail.com.
Call Dena King-Nossokoff at (412)292-2164.
Appleton Farms, a Trustees of Reservations property, seeks an experienced, full-time Dairy Processing Manager to oversee milk processing and dairy retail operations for its 40-cow, grass-based dairy.
Responsibilities are to:
Oversee and participate in safe, timely transport of fluid milk to and from the third-party processing plant for pasteurization, bottling and on-farm sales; Operate on-farm processing equipment to produce butter, yogurt, and/or cheese; Manage farm-based dairy retail operation, including sales, inventory, and volunteer and seasonal farm-store staff; Maintain processing and transport equipment in good working order; Analyze processing operations to ensure safety, quality and efficiency; Control costs, including shrink, transportation, and related overhead; Assist in development and management of annual dairy budgets; Develop and ensure compliance with standard operating procedures (SOPs) for all aspects of the operation;
Implement plant programs to help ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations, monitor compliance, manage related audits and inspections; Assess potential food safety risks and implement measures for manufacturing, handling and storage of all food ingredients and finished goods to protect product and consumer safety; Periodically support educational programming.
Qualifications include: 5+ years of experience in dairy/beverage plant operations or food industry; Experience producing butter, yogurt and/or cheese required. Experience pasteurizing and bottling fluid milk a plus; Knowledge of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point Compliance preferred, certification a plus and a thorough understanding of regulatory laws and responsibilities related to processing, filling, and general facility standards.
For a full job description and information about The Trustees of Reservations and Appleton Farms please visit http://www.thetrustees.org/about-us/employment/current-openings.
To apply for this position, please mail or email a resume and cover letter to: David Beardsley dbeardsley@ttor.org or Appleton Farms | 219 County Road | Ipswich, MA 01938 (No phone calls, please)
We are a small, grass-fed, dairy located on the island of Martha’s Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts and our creamery is looking for a full-time assistant. This person would assist the dairy manager in milk processing, bottling of milk, cheese production, record keeping, butter making and the cleaning of the creamery. Experience in the hygiene and food safety aspect of the dairy industry a plus. Applicant must be a self-motivated, methodical and meticulous individual who is willing to work standing for 10 hours per day, meet flexible scheduling depending on production and supply their own transportation.
This is a full-time, permanent position and compensation is negotiable and based on experience, available immediately. Please forward resume and cover letter to molly@thegreybarnandfarm.com.
Entrepreneur would work into ownership of an established dairy farm and cheese business for retiring owner. If this is something you would like to pursue please email cow1969@hotmail.com.
Bob-White Systems offers a broad range of equipment and supplies especially for the farmstead and artisan cheesemaker. We are the only Vermont company carrying a full line of new off-the-shelf and custom vat pasteurizers, make vats, mini bulk tanks, custom stainless drain tables, individual and blockform moulds, milk cans of all sizes, pipelines, curd knives (harps) made to order and other similar products for cow, goat or sheep dairies tailored to your needs. We also have access to a wide variety of used equipment as well. If you have an established business and are thinking of stepping up production or just getting your feet wet in the business of making cheese for the first time, we can help with your plan, layout and equipment needs. Further information about us can be found at www.bobwhitesystems.com.
Visit us at:
Bob-White Systems
228 Chelsea Street
South Royalton, VT 05068
Tel: (802) 763-2777
Contact:
Tim Hollander
Cell: (802) 989-3857
tim@bobwhitesystems.com