Value Added Products Manager
We rent a commercial kitchen space in order to produce our value-added products—( BB topping, cranberry jam, various teas, vinegars, seaweed sprinkle, mermaiden broth). Starting in mid-August, we will be making the products in our own commercial kitchen in Pembroke.
We are looking for someone to come on a few days a month to produce the products. We have organic certification, kitchen certification, recipes, SSOP, make sheets, all the needed ingredients, jars and equipment ready to go. You don’t need to be local, and we’re happy to house you if you are commuting from across Maine, but we need someone really focused and outcomes driven to make sure we get our production handled to a high professional standard!
We need you to be:
Detail oriented and highly professional, clean efficient kitchen management
Hard core passionate about quality, organic food, wild foods, integrity of ingredients, taste
Able to organize electronically, able to travel vehicularly, able to communicate compassionately and proactively.
Operate inside our systems, and improve them as needed.
Able to interpret technically the grinders, presses, dehydrators.
Able to quality control the ingredients and procedures as we have set them up,
Able to work in a shared commercial kitchen- leave no trace!
Interested in the “creation process” of our own commercial kitchen and contributing to the moving forward of our products, processing areas etc. once we meet our production goals.
Able to manage the inventory for ingredient/ packaging ordering, warehouse/ storage room– alert office where items need to be ordered.
Inventory management inside software system of the farm web shop
Accountable to the accounting, marketing and shop- fulfillment workers
OPTIONAL ADD ON: Joining for seaweed and herb harvesting, drying, bagging, tagging, MOFGA paperwork, reporting to state and logging internally
OPTIONAL ADD ON: harvesting of veg for the farm store, recipe testing and idea generation for the next set of products.
OPTIONAL ADD ON: Marketing/ sales element.
Our highest priority is getting the products made, we can expand the role from there if it's a fit and mutually agreeable.
We believe in:
Quality and positivity
Fresh as possible
Neatness and following the systems
Accountability and truthfulness
Diversity and joyous abundance
Imagination and follow through
Subsistence foods
Fancy foods on occasion
Bulk homestead foods for everyday use
Buying as locally as possible
Producing as much of our own as possible
Staying flexible, having fun!
To apply, please send a resume, cover letter, and at least two professional references to the email provided.