Job description
Stew Leonard’s, a family-owned and operated fresh food store founded in 1969, has seven stores in Norwalk, Danbury, and Newington, CT, Farmingdale, East Meadow & Yonkers, NY and Paramus NJ. Stew’s earned its nickname, the “Disneyland of Dairy Stores” because of its country-fair atmosphere, with costumed characters and animated entertainment throughout the store that keep children entertained while parents shop.Cheese Specialist
Full-Time Hourly - $17 per hour
Must be at least 18 years and older
Position Description:
Cheese Specialist break down, flavor, cook, and stretch mozzarella curd to form mozzarella and other mozzarella products. Team members work safely and adhere to all food safety and sanitation standards in each area of department to provide customers with the highest quality mozzarella.
Your day-to-day:
- Make and form mozzarella and associated items using established standards
- Maintain, fill and rotate mozzarella and olive bar for quality freshness, and proper dates
- Weighs, packages, and labels products
- Provides excellent customer service by greeting and responding to customers
- Adhere to all health, sanitation, and safety regulations
- Assist in other duties, as assigned
- 18 years of age or older
- Entry level position; no prior experience required but preferred
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Safely use/operate knives, paddles, scales, wrapping machine, and electric kettle
- Great customer service
- Good oral communication skills
- Great work ethic
- Problem solver
- Self-motivator
- Flexible (Saturday & Sunday Availability)
- Honest
- The position requires frequent walking, standing, lifting, and pushing with a maximum of 50lbs and occasional squatting and reaching
- The position requires exposure to both extreme heat and extreme cold (non-weather related) and occasionally loud noises
Family Oriented: We respect the personal balance between work and family with career opportunity and growth- over 80% of our managers have been promoted from within.
Benefits: High value, high quality Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage, 401 K plan for FT & PT team members, family & personal time, life insurance, and more!
Environment: Have you seen the Avocado Girls? Chiquita Banana? Or the singing Parrot?
Covid-19: Staying safe and clean, we are taking all precautions in the store to keep our team members and customers safe. (Providing daily masks and gloves to all team members, plexi glass at service counters, weekly communications, and much more!)
Pay Day: We’re thrilled to offer our employees Dayforce Wallet – a new way to get paid. Say bye-bye to pay day and hello to pay your way. Get your pay as soon as you earn it, at no cost to you – It’s your money, why should you have to wait? Request your pay as you earn it.
We take pride in the power of diversity, inclusion, and being socially responsible to the communities which we live and do business
Apply today and start as soon as 1 week!
For more information on working at Stew Leonard’s click on the link below!
http://www.stewleonards.com/work-at-stews/
Stew Leonard's is an equal opportunity at will employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of age, race, religion, color, disability, sex, sexual orientation or national origin.
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