Company description
Number 1 Sons is DC's fermented foods and pickle brand. We make all types of fermented vegetables -- pickles, kimchi, kraut, hot sauces, and more. Our products are sold at 20+ farmers markets, stores, and restaurants in the VA, MD and DC.
We wild ferment our vegetables in our light-filled pickle factory located in Ivy City, DC. Our pickles are fermented the traditional way with simple ingredients -- vegetables, spices, salt and some time or pickled in Virginia sourced apple cider vinegar. We take a nod from the seasons as our pickle lineup changes throughout the year.
In 2012, a brother sister team started Number 1 Sons with $500. We're proud to now serve 75,000 annual customers with our quality pickles. We're excited to keep growing our business with folks who have a similar gusto for hard work and quality food.
Job description
We spend our days washing, chopping and mixing vegetables. We then allow them to ferment in our barrels before packing them for local farmers markets and stores. Most of our work is done by hand. We maintain a clean work environment and cap each day’s production schedule by cleaning and preparing the space together for the next day’s work.
As part of our production team, you will be involved in making kimchi, sauerkrauts, pickles and other fermented foods at every step of production from washing and preparing the vegetables to analysing and adjusting active ferments to packing them for farmers markets and stores. If you are interested in kombucha production, you can also be involved in this.
If interested in also working farmers markets, we have weekday and weekend farmers market shifts available. The right pickler could do a combination of both kitchen and farmers market work. There is some flexibility here!
Qualifications
- Heart and ownership; you are proud of the work you do and take pride in doing the whole job. From setup to cleanup, you jump in and do/help with what needs to be done.
- Improvement; you like finding ways to do things better. Individually and for the team. Change is an ongoing part of our small business. We love helping each other get better by figuring out how we can do better by the farmers/vendors we buy from, by our crew who produce and sell our products and by our customers and the friends/family they share our food with.
- Respectful; you come on time and are ready to work when the shift starts. You can listen to instructions and follow them. You treat our equipment and facility with thoughtfulness.
Schedule: 2-5 weekday shifts a week, 7:30am-4:00pm, minimum 30 minute meal break. One of your 5 shifts may need to be a pickle factory weekend shift depending on our market needs.
Compensation:
DOE $13.00-14/hour for the first 20 days worked with an increase to $14.00-15/hour thereafter. Full-time staff can expect a raise if staying beyond the market season.
The equivalent of $25.00 of Number 1 Sons product per week. Kombucha while working at the pickle factory! Monthly transportation benefits of $50-80 if working 3+ days/week.
Growth opportunities possible for more kitchen responsibility and other aspects of our growing business.
Requirements
- Ability to move 60lb boxes of vegetables. (desired)
- Know or learn how to handle a kitchen knife effectively and safely.
- Keep yourself and your work area clean.
- Be on time and ready to work when the shift starts.
- Be prepared to spend the majority of the shift on your feet.
Compensation
this position is: hourly, varies DOE, $13.25 - $15.00
Application instructions
This job expired on August 21, 2018
Deadline
no deadline