Now Hiring Sales and Packaging Assistant

Help Wanted: Assistant Sales & Packing – Small Vermont Cheese Company

We’re a small, artisanal Vermont cheese company looking for a dependable, detail oriented person to help with sales support and order fulfillment. If you enjoy local food, keeping things organized, and don’t mind spending part of your day in a cool cheese room, you might be a great fit. Starts mid-late August.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Cutting, wrapping, packaging cheese - and lots of it! Hand cut large wheels of cheese into retail wedges and run through our state-of-the-art thermoformer machine

• Weighing, wrapping, labeling, casing, and organizing cheese so everything goes out uniformly sized and looking sharp

• Packing cheese orders for wholesale accounts and online orders

• Pulling and preparing shipments for UPS and local deliveries

• Keeping track of inventory and restocking packing supplies

• Helping with simple sales tasks like entering orders or answering customer emails

• Pitching in with whatever comes up — we’re a small Vermont team, and everyone helps everyone

Who We’re Hoping to Find

• Someone reliable, organized, and loves hands-on work

• Able to lift 40 lbs. and work in cool storage spaces- like a cheese cave!

• Good with repetitive tasks and keeping things neat and orderly

• Basic computer comfort (email, invoicing, simple order entry)

• Friendly, easy to work with, and willing to learn. Happy to work solo and with others.

• Takes initiative

• Bonus if you care about local farms, good food, and cheese

What You Get

• $20/hr starting pay, regular increases with experience

• A flexible, supportive workplace

• Plenty of award-winning Vermont cheese

• The satisfaction of helping a small local business get its products out into the world!

• 15-20 hours a week (**note: for full time work can be combined with Cheesemaker position listed separately). PTO after a year, flexible schedule and time off. 

TO APPLY PLEASE SEND A LETTER OF INTEREST, RESUME AND 2 WORK REFERENCES TO HANNAH by July 20. Job starts mid to late August:

info@blueledgefarm.com