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Job Opening: The Center for an Agricultural Economy (CAE) is looking to add a reliable individual for our Just Cut team! Experience preferred but will train motivated individuals that are a good fit.
This position is hourly, and requires a willingness to work in an industrial kitchen setting, maintaining good food safety practices, working closely with a team, and having a good work ethic.
Position: Kitchen Staff
Supervisor: Report to Just Cut Production Manager and Program Manager
Salary: Hourly, beginning at $17.50/hr, with opportunity for increase
Work Schedule: Starting immediately, 3 days per week.
Summary of Position: Just Cut is a social enterprise at CAE that prepares locally sourced produce for use in institutional kitchens. This position will work in a team with the Just Cut Production Manager and Just Cut Program Manager. The primary responsibility is to ensure the safe, efficient and cleanly processing and packaging of raw produce products into value-added products for institutions and bulk buyers.
Employee Responsibilities:
Prepare, package, and ship weekly fresh and frozen Just Cut product orders (particularly beets, cabbage, potatoes, and carrots)
Ability to work in an industrial kitchen setting; warehouse inventory lifting, physical capability to move foodstuffs, dry goods, work in hot and cold settings, and work with food processing equipment is a necessity.
Communicate all irregularities to the Just Cut Production Manager and follow all food safety protocols as communicated by Just Cut Production Manager or Facilities Manager (i.e. equipment malfunction, materials below par level, staff injuries, etc.)
Maintain a high level of cleanliness throughout production kitchens and warehouse
Skills: We’re looking for the right fit for making our Food Venture Center hum with activity.
Ability to consistently lift up to 60lbs
Ability to work on your feet
Ability to take directions quickly and efficiently and able to follow established procedures
Ability to be detail-oriented, and focused on specific tasks to completion
Ability to be on time, to communicate to your teammates, and to carry out repetitive tasks
EOE Statement
Building community leadership, investing in relationships, and listening to the needs of the community are core principles CAE applies to all of our work. We encourage anyone interested in this position to reach out with any questions they may have before applying. CAE strives to foster an inclusive and supportive staff culture where learning and growth are supported. CAE believes an equitable food system is one with empowered communities that are socially and economically thriving with shared mutual goals.
Background on CAE
CAE was founded in 2004 to build a regenerative, just, and healthy local food system that creates socially thriving and economically vital rural communities. We do this through a range of programs which provide the infrastructure, education, and connectivity to forward our goals. Our approach is rooted in understanding specific community needs, and collaborating with local, regional, and statewide partners across sectors for long-term transformation and resilience.
CAE operates a full-service food hub at the Vermont Food Venture Center. Our support for farm and food businesses include business advising and technical assistance, as well as a farm-to-institution social enterprise, Just Cut, and local food delivery service. Our community programs are focused in the greater Hardwick area and include the 7-year Grow Your Own food independence collaboration with the Hardwick Area Food Pantry and others, and Place-Based Education collaboration with our local schools.
