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This job expired on July 10, 2022

Confectioner / Chocolatier Heavenly Chocolate

  • Date Posted May 11, 2022
  • Location Northampton, MA
  • Category Culinary / Production
  • Job type Full-Time
Company description Heavenly Chocolate was founded in 2007 as part of an independent grocer with a commitment to local and organic ingredients. Now owned by former employees, we handmake confections and carry other chocolatiers products that celebrate life, like foraged mushroom ganaches to highlight the New England forests, banana pudding truffles that remind us of our siblings, or pumpkin peanut butter cups because why *not*? Job description

Hi! We’re Heavenly Chocolate! We're looking for the right person to join us at our chocolate kitchen inside Thornes Marketplace. This person will work with and report to the owner/GM, helping to produce our chocolate truffles and confections while keeping a tidy and organized kitchen. You'll also be asked to work our retail shop counter located in the same building 1-2 days a week. 

Some details about the position and who we’re looking for:

  • Confectionary Batch Work You'll be making several hundred chocolate truffles, caramels, and more confections each day to be sold in our retail storefront. You'll be working with established recipes, but also expected to bring new ideas and creations highlighting seasonal ingredients or personal inspiration. 
  • Working Solo - You’ll be expected to work independently for long periods (6+ hrs) with little direction, keeping the kitchen tidy and completing assigned tasks. Our shop and its kitchen are separated in a historic (and Frankenstein's monster-esque) building, so you'll often be working in isolation. Previous solo experience is a must.
  • Counter Sales - To break up the week, you'll be asked to work our retail kiosk helping customers prepare gift boxes of truffles and caramels. General register/retail experience is great, but experience with specialized sales (wine, coffee, cheese, books, etc.) would be ideal. For full-time employees, we find having these shifts is important for mental health....5 straight days in the kitchen can be a bit much! 
  • Kitchen Operations - You'll be expected to help make sure our kitchen is humming along efficiently. That means keeping an eye on our ingredients and inventory, making sure that we have everything we need and it's all in the right spot. We don't need you to be a receiving superstar (though it helps!), but you should have a decent understanding of maintaining ingredients. Some experience with batch production would be a huge plus, but not required.
  • You're Confident... - You have a solid head on your shoulders and enough self-confidence to make decisions, pitch ideas, and back them up. If you feel like your idea is the right one, you're willing to bring it up more than once. You're willing to try something just to see if it works (because we can always change it back, right?....right?)
  • ...But Not TOO Confident - You should know what your flaws are and have enough grace to accept others for their flaws. You're a team player and know when to let others shine. "What grows together goes together" right?
  • COVID-19 Safety - There are currently no local or state mask mandates at time of writing. We do not require masking except when there are shared kitchen shifts where two people are in the same room for an extended period of time. Because you are working with the general public in close proximity to your coworkers in a shared food production environment, vaccination against COVID-19 is required (defined at time of writing as two doses of Pfzier/Moderna or one dose of J&J by the CDC).
  • You’re, Y’know…a Living Breathing Person - You have hobbies and passions and dreams and values. We think it's important to have things outside of work to look forward to!

This position is full time at approximately 33-35hrs/wk (approx 5 days with scheduled lunch breaks and 15 min breaks). Benefits include 40hrs PTO (in addition to accrued sick time), paid holidays, tips, 30% store discount and 20% discount at the neighboring organic grocery store. We are open 10-6 most days, 10-8 Friday/Saturday, and 12-5 Sunday. We do ask for at least one weekend day available (Friday thru Sunday)...but we are Not Robots and will happily make adjustments for the right candidate.

 

Compensation this position is : hourly, $15-20/hr Application instructions
This job expired on July 10, 2022
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