What are the responsibilities and job description for the Seasonal Processing and Order Fulfillment Assistant position at Shelburne Farms?
Who We’re Looking for
Come join the cheese team at Shelburne Farms! We are currently seeking a motivated, dependable, hard-working, quality-focused processing and order fulfillment assistant to help cut and ship our award-winning farmstead cheddar cheese. This part-time, seasonal position will help us prepare for, and execute, our busy holiday mail order season.
Essential Functions: Duties and Responsibilities
- Assist with cheese processing 3 days per week: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 6AM – 2PM. This includes cutting, waxing, bagging, vacuum sealing, printing and affixing labels, boxing up processed cheese, cleaning and sanitizing. Attention to detail is required for accurate dating, counting and recording of all cheese blocks and pieces.
- Assist with order fulfillment and shipping. Become proficient in packing individual orders and wholesale orders. Shipping will become the primary job responsibility during the month of December.
- Participation in food safety and sanitation programs. This includes daily cleaning and sanitation, record keeping, internal monitoring and quality assurance.
- Assist with moving cheese to on-farm coolers and loading cheese onto stacks and shelves.
Physical factors / working conditions
This position requires significant physical demands, including the ability to work up to 8-hour days on your feet in hot and cold environments. There can be brief periods of repetitive lifting of up to 50 pounds and stacking blocks in our coolers using ladders. Cleaning chemicals and sanitizers are used. Must be able to understand and use processing machinery safely.
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 1,400-acre working farm located on the traditional, unceded homelands—Ndakinna—of the Winooskik band of the Abenaki.
What We Do
- Engage youth and people of all ages in learning experiences that inspire them to build just, diverse, resilient, caring communities.
- Steward our 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.
- Collaborate with educators and other local, national, and international partners to advance education for sustainability worldwide
Commitment to Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
Shelburne Farms recognizes that justice, equity, and access are central to sustainability. We are committed to translating these values into action across the organization by improving equitable outcomes in our culture, programs, and services. Shelburne Farms is working to create experiences of belonging for all, including BIPOC, LGBTQ communities, people with disabilities, and people of all economic realities. We are passionate about building and sustaining a diverse and welcoming working and learning environment for all program participants, guests, and staff.
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: From $15.50 per hour
Benefits:
- Employee discount
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
Application Question(s):
- Along with a resume, please submit a cover letter that describes your qualifications and interest in this position.
Work Location: One location