Company description
Rock House Farm exists to bring you healthy and great tasting food you can trust. We’re on a mission to provide you the ultimate eating experience.
Rock House Farm raises 100% grassfed, grass-finished beef and Berkshire pork. Rock House Farm also works with a group of partner farms to provide USDA prime and choice beef and Cheshire pork. These partner farms maintain the highest standards of quality production and animal raising.
Georgia-made, award winning artisan cheeses made by Calyroad.
Job description
Employee Duties & Responsibilities
1) Cooks milk specified ingredients to make cheese, according to formula.
2) Pasteurizes separates milk to obtain prescribed butterfat content.
3) Turns valves to fill vat with milk heat milk to specified temperature.
4) Dumps measured amounts of dye starter into milk.
5) Starts agitator to mix ingredients.
6) Tests sample of milk for acidity allows agitator to mix ingredients until specified level of acidity is reached.
7) Dumps mixes measured amount of rennet into milk.
8) Stops agitator to allow milk to coagulate into curd.
9) Pulls curd knives through curd or separates curd with hand scoop to release whey.
10) Observes thermometer, adjusts steam valve, and starts agitator to stir cook curd at prescribed temperature for specified time.
11) Squeezes and stretches sample of curd with fingers extends cooking time to achieve desired firmness or texture.
12) Gives directions to Cheesemaker Helper or other workers to make curd, drain whey from curd, add ingredients, like seasonings, or mold, pack, cut, pile, mill, dump, and press curd into specified shapes.
13) Directs other workers who immerse cheese in brine or roll cheese in dry salt, pierce or smear cheese with cultured wash to develop mold growth, and place or turn cheese blocks on shelves to cure cheese.
14) Tastes, smells, feels, and observes sample plug of cheese for quality.
15) Records amounts of ingredients used, test results, and time cycles.
16) Makes variations in time cycles ingredients used for succeeding batches.
17) Dumps specified culture into milk or whey in pasteurizer to make bulk starter.
18) May be required to hold state cheesemakers license..
Compensation
this position is: hourly, $7.25/hr to $15/hr
Application instructions
This job expired on July 18, 2021
Deadline
no deadline