Creamery Manager
Creamery Manager
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$ 60000 - 70000
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Job Description
Position Title:Creamery Manager
Supervisor: Chief Operations Officer
Supervises: Cheese Team
Employee Status:Year RoundFullTime Salary Exempt
Location:Inperson (Shelburne VT)
Salary Range:$60000 $70000/year
Application Deadline:April 10 2025 (will prioritize applications received prior to deadline)
Staff Housing:Please indicate if interested in onfarm housing
Who We Are
Shelburne Farms is an education nonprofit on a mission to inspire and cultivate learning for a sustainable future. We offer transformative learning experiences to help educators and students create a better world. Our home campus is a 1400acre working farm located on the homelands of the Winooskik band of the Abenaki.
What We Do
Engageyouth and people of all ages in learning experiences that inspire them to build just diverse resilient caring communities.
Stewardour working lands and heritage buildings as we embody values of place and community through caring for and sharing our natural agricultural cultural and human resources.
Collaboratewith educators and other local national and international partners to advance education for sustainability worldwide
Who Were Looking for
Someone who is deeply committed to artisanal cheesemaking as part of a vision for a sustainable future including supporting Shelburne Farms education and community programs and conserving its beautiful agricultural landscape. You will play an important role in our local food system providing management leadership for the cheese team and collaborating with other farm operations to produce age package and ship our farmsteadcheddar cheese(along with other farm products).
What Youll Do
Operations and Quality Manager
Oversee support and coordinate all cheesemaking and aging cheese processing and all mail order shipping operations.
Learn and participate in all areas of cheesemaking processing and shipping. Train new staff and fillin when there are gaps in all aspects of the operation.
Ensure establishment of effective systems to meet the demands of our peak holiday season.
Serve as the point person for creameryrelated interviews tours and programming and requests from other Shelburne Farms departments.
Manage creamery schedules to support the seven day work week and the coordination of overlapping work teams.
Participate in the Tasting & Grading Program and provide direction and guidance when needed.
Work with the Chief Operations Officer to develop and manage the Creamery budgets.
Keep current on cheesemaking and processing best practices and equipment and encourage continuous improvement of our operation as appropriate to our scale resources and mission.
Perform other work as necessary to support the Farm in satisfying guest and customer needs. Instill a priority for engaged guest service within the team.
Team Leader and Mentor
Recruit hire train guide and support all Creamery staff to maintain a cohesive and effective team that is engaged with the Farms mission and produces foodsafe and highquality farmstead cheddar cheese per annual plans and delivers it to high customer satisfaction.
Ensure an up to date training program is maintained for all key Creamery functions and personnel.
Adapt to support and train team members in a teaching environment with varying skill and experience levels.
Food and Facility Safety
Work closely with the teams Food Safety Leader to promote a strong Food Safety culture at the Farm. Ensure compliance with key regulatory agencies including the Vermont Agency of Agriculture Food & Markets and the FDA.
Be the point of contact for our Buildings and Landscape Manager to coordinate equipment and facility repairs and maintenance that is beyond creamery staff capability.
Maintain and improve a safe and productive facility and work environment.
Community and Communications Coordinator
Support and participate in learning outreach marketing activities and community events on and off the Farm such as Meet the Cheesemaker demos and farmers markets.
Work with the Creamery staff to tell the Farms story of cheese.
Support farm product sales and marketing.
Core Qualifications
Required qualifications that all applicants must have in order to be considered for the job
Passionate about local food systems as part of a sustainable future
Leadership experience and excited to work with and mentor the Creamery Department team.
Food/Beverage production experience and desire to become an artisanal cheese producer.
Valid drivers license
Competent computer skills including Google Suite and Excel.
Committed to fostering a welcoming working and learning environment for all program participants guests and staff.
Experience with cleaning and sanitation for food safety.
OnCall support is expected for this leadership role.
Additional Valued Qualifications
Food safety certifications are helpful such as PCQI HACCP SQF or other equivalent.
Work Environment & Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Work 10hour shifts in a highly physical role in hot and cold (refrigerated) environments.
The Cheese department operates 7 days a week and this role is required to help with oncall support as well as some weekend/holiday shifts.
Repetitive lifting reaching bending twisting and squatting and moving with items of up to 65 pounds.
Moving up and down a ladder while carrying items weighing up to 45 pounds (block of cheese).
Repetitive movements of the hands and wrists to perform finemotor skills.
Cleaning with chemicals and sanitizers.
Operation of production machinery and equipment.
Benefits
For yearround fulltime staff:Benefit summary here for 2025 benefits.
To Apply
If our vision and mission excite you we hope you will share with us your experience and skill set that you feel would qualify you to make a contribution to the Farm.
In your applicationplease include responses to the following questions. These are not meant to be a writing exercise but to introduce yourself in a meaningful way.
Submit a resume and cover letter. In your cover letter address:
Tell us about your unique characteristics life experience and interests that will help you thrive in this role.
How do you approach training and mentoring new staff members
How did you hear about the position
Shelburne Farms is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and we strongly stand against discrimination and harassment of any kind. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age or veteran status.
If you need accommodations throughout the application process or have general questions please contact us ator.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
