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GRAINERY production assistant

Chimacum Valley Grainery in Chimacum, WA is hiring for a part-time flour milling and packaging position at our organic farm and grain production facilities.  We are looking for a positive, capable person to join our small, committed team. This position supports all elements of production in our unique model of diversified local grains processing. The position starts at 16-32 hours per week, depending on candidate experience and interest, at training wage of $18/hr for preliminary period, working up to $20/hr. We do not provide health benefits at this time.   PTO/sick leave offered per WA state guidelines. The Grainery does not discriminate against any applicant for employment, or any employee because of age, color, sex, disability, national origin, race, religion, or veteran status.

This is a dynamic operation and this is a dynamic role! We provide training for many essential skills and functions related to grain production/processing. Join us if you’re excited to learn, do many different things in a day, work hard and well with others, and make good food happen.  

Read on for the full job description below and, if interested, please send your resume and letter to keith@chimacumgrain.com

Working within training, best practices and safety guidelines, responsibilities include but are not limited to:

  • Operate seed cleaner

  • Operate stone mills and monitor flour quality 

  • Package flour

  • Label and fill out tracking sheets

  • Operate pasta machinery to produce and package pasta

  • Assemble orders to be shipped or delivered.

  • Assist when needed with bakery and brewing tasks

  • Assist in doing deliveries to local accounts.

  • Operate a forklift to move bins of grain from the warehouse to the seed cleaner

* Some examples of side jobs we all as a team participate in include:  bathroom cleaning rotation, sweeping and mopping floors, shoveling snow, splitting and stacking firewood for the bread oven, watering and weeding around plants in the court yard, helping in the fields on occasion.

Success criteria:

  • Interest in learning the local grain production and processing trade

  • Can-do attitude with a strong work ethic

  • Can self assign and perform tasks independently. Ability to work with little supervision

  • Clean and tidy mindset. Clean as you go ethic   

  • Prioritize safety and product quality and consistency

  • Impeccable personal and work place hygiene a MUST

  • Lift 30# buckets during a work shift

  • Physically stand and work up to 8 hours

  • Multi-task with a high degree of awareness and attention to detail

  • Be around machinery

  • Wear PPE ( personal protective equipment) such as ear plugs and dust masks

  • Complete in-house forklift training course

  • Complete WSDA food handlers course

Workplace expectations:

  • Receive instruction and embrace feedback from coworkers and owners

  • Adapt to flexibility in work schedule with advanced communications and backing each other up

  • Communicate clearly and cleanly with positive, solution-oriented intentions

  • We show up here with a purpose to make the business work and to grow regional food resilience and vitality. We enjoy what we do and want to work with others who are positive, caring and committed to our shared success

This is a small, scrappy operation that is still in startup mode. 

Please send a résumé and letter of interest to keith@Chimacumgrain.com if you’re interested in joining us!