Blending & Production Specialist — w​/long term Inventory Path

Blending & Production Specialist - Holiday w Long term Inventory Support Growth Path

Turn your love of flavor, detail, and hands-on work into a job where precision actually matters.

The Spice & Tea Exchange is a sensory specialty retail shop filled with spices, teas, sugars, salts, blends, gifts, recipes, and discovery. Guests see the beautiful shelves, smell the spices, taste the teas, and find products they love — but a lot of that magic starts behind the scenes. We are looking for careful, reliable, detail-oriented support for our Annapolis holiday season.

This role helps us blend, package, label, stock, organize, and prepare products so the store is accurate, full, beautiful, and guest‑ready during our busiest time of year. This is not a “stand behind the register and wait” kind of retail job. It is also not a “make it up as you go” production job. This role is best for someone who likes recipes, checklists, clean work spaces, repetition, accuracy, and the satisfaction of finishing work the right way.

Some candidates may be newer and ready to learn step by step. Others may bring experience in food prep, production, inventory, stocking, labeling, quality control, receiving, counting, or team training. Both types may fit here. What matters most is care, reliability, accuracy, coachability, and follow‑through.

• Blend spices, teas, sugars, salts, and other products according to recipes and procedures.
• Weigh, scoop, fill, seal, label, and organize products accurately.
• Restock shelves, jars, bins, and displays so the store stays full and guest‑ready.
• Help prepare seasonal and holiday products, gifts, and high‑demand items.
• Follow production checklists, batch instructions, cleanliness standards, and store procedures.
• Keep production areas and backstock clean, orderly, food‑safe, and efficient.
• Check labels, weights, ingredients, packaging, quantities, and product presentation for accuracy.
• Notice when products are low, mislabeled, misplaced, damaged, overstocked, or out of place.
• Communicate clearly when supplies, labels, ingredients, packaging, counts, or instructions are missing or unclear.
• Support the behind‑the‑scenes quality that makes the store feel abundant, beautiful, and trustworthy.

• Like hands‑on work and take pride in doing things correctly.
• Are careful with details, labels, numbers, recipes, counts, and instructions.
• Enjoy repetition, routine, organization, and visible progress.
• Can follow a checklist without treating it as optional.
• Notice when something is messy, missing, mislabeled, miscounted, or incomplete.
• Prefer steady, focused work over constant social interaction.
• Are coachable and willing to learn the right way to do things.
• Can work carefully without moving so slowly that work does not get done.
• Understand that “close enough” is not good enough when product quality, inventory accuracy, and customer trust are involved.

This role starts with hands‑on blending, production, stocking, labeling, and holiday preparation.

For the right person, it may grow toward senior production responsibility, inventory support, receiving support, backstock organization, cycle counts, product availability tracking, operations support, keyholder responsibility, or broader store leadership over time. We are especially interested in candidates who enjoy both doing the work carefully and helping the store stay organized and accurate.

• Reliable attendance and punctuality, especially during holiday preparation and peak selling periods.
• Comfort standing, moving, reaching, scooping, weighing, filling, labeling, stocking, organizing, and cleaning during shifts.
• Ability to assist with unpacking, stocking, and moving items, generally up to…