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📍 Now Hiring: Sausage & Value-Added Recipe Manager | Culinary Meets Production

Are you a chef or culinary professional passionate about crafting flavorful and innovative recipes? Do you want to take your creativity beyond the kitchen and into a production-driven, quality-focused environment? Join our team and help create efficiency and flavor in the restaurant and foodservice industry.

About the Role

We’re looking for a hands-on, flavor-forward individual to lead product development and oversee production of sausage, marinated meats, and other value-added items. This role combines culinary creativity with practical leadership in a manufacturing setting. You’ll work alongside our operations and QA teams to create and scale recipes that are as delicious as they are consistent.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and refine sausage, marinade, rub, and cooked product recipes for retail and foodservice markets.
• Manage small- to mid-scale production runs, including batching, stuffing, packaging, and labeling.
• Work closely with procurement on raw material selection and ingredient sourcing.
• Lead sensory testing and quality improvements based on customer feedback and internal evaluations.
• Maintain yield, cost, and production efficiency targets
• Support food safety and USDA compliance protocols (training provided if needed)
• Collaborate with sales and marketing to develop new product concepts and seasonal offerings

Qualifications:

• 2+ years working in a professional kitchen, in meat processing, or recipe creation
• Strong understanding of flavor profiles, ingredient functionality, and food safety basics
• Hands-on leadership style with the ability to work in a fast-paced, physical environment
• Comfortable working in a cold facility and around meat processing equipment
• Detail-oriented, organized, and passionate about product consistency and innovation

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