Lead Ice Cream Maker and Assistant Ice Cream Maker

Little Truckee Ice Creamery, Truckee and North Tahoe’s only Locally Hand Crafted Full Service Ice Cream Shop is hiring a lead Ice Cream Maker and an assistant Ice Cream maker. This position is Full Time Seasonal (or potentially year round).  40 hrs a week with a flexible schedule.

Job Description:

Lead Ice Cream Chef is responsible for all aspects of Ice Cream production:

• Baking/Preparing Inclusions
  • Brownies, Cookies, Candies, Caramels, etc.
• Prepping Dairy Base
  • Flavoring, Steeping, Portioning
• Running Commercial Ice Cream Machine
  • Loading Dairy and following recipe
  • Freezing the ice cream
  • Packaging in tubs or pints
• Tracking Inventory
  • Ingredients – Maintain inventor so ingredients or in stock for production.
  • Ice cream tub inventory for sales
  • Pint supply
  • Shopping lists
• Recipe and Flavor Creation (Help us make some fun flavors!).
• Kitchen Cleaning and Organization (dishes, sweeping, moping, organizing, stocking)
• Working with Service Staff to monitor quality and consistency.

The Ice Cream Maker should be willing to work alone when the assistant is not on the schedule.  Operating the machine is a one person job.  There will be regular service staff in the building from 12-9pm every day, but the kitchen and dairy room is the realm of the the ice cream maker.  Some days are all about ingredient prep and other days are dedicated to running the ice cream machine.

Ice Cream Makers Assistant responsibilities

• Work under the guidance of the lead Ice Cream Maker but may work their own hours as well.
• Baking/Preparing Inclusions
  • Brownies, Cookies, Candies, Caramels, etc.
• Prepping Dairy Base
  • Flavoring, Steeping, Portioning
• Tracking Inventory
  • Ingredients – Maintain inventor so ingredients or in stock for production.
  • Ice cream tub inventory for sales
  • Pint supply
  • Shopping lists
• Kitchen Cleaning and Organization (dishes, sweeping, moping, organizing, stocking)
• Working with Service Staff to monitor quality and consistency.
• Assisting Lead Ice Cream Maker with Pinting prepared ice cream.

Schedule:

• Full Time Seasonal (Lead Ice Cream Maker) 35-40 hrs
• Part Time Season (Assistant) +/- 20 hrs week
• Year Round if energy is put into building Pint distribution business
• 40 hrs a week June 1-September 10 (training starts earlier and season continues part time after September 10th
• Hours are flexible once trained (you can work any time of day, even if the shop is closed)

Physical Demand:

Ice Cream maker and assistant must be able to lift and pour 5 gallon bags of dairy which are around 45 lbs each.  We also move and stack tubs of ice cream that weight around 15-20 lbs. Stirring large quantities of Caramel and Brittle is physically demanding and requires standing at the stove for up to an hour.  Must be willing and able to work alone at times.

Experience and Qualifications:

We are happy to train all aspects of Ice Cream production, however, we prefer some commercial kitchen experience.  Once hired, kitchen staff must obtain a food handlers card.  Efficiency in the kitchen is very important.  Ability to Multi-Task is VERY important in our high paced kitchen. An example is to be able to get the machine started on a batch of ice cream and in the 10 minutes the batch is running, you would be working towards prepping the next batches ingredients, labeling and packing pints, or doing dishes.

Pay:

Lead $20-26 hr DOE plus bonus
Assistant $16-20 DOE plus bonus

Benefits:

• Flexible Schedule (you set your own schedule, any time of day, as long as required production is being met)
• Free Ice Cream and baked goods
• Contract Bonus
  • Lead = $2 hr worked during high season. Based on 36 hrs a week average minimum from June 15- Sept 15)
  • Assistant = $1 hr worked during high season. Based on 15 hrs a week average minimum from June 15- Sept 15)
• Cell Phone plan (Verizon).