Blending & Production Specialist - Annapolis, MD

Blending & Production Specialist

🌿 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’re looking for careful, reliable, detail-oriented team members who enjoy hands-on production work: blending, weighing, filling, labeling, stocking, organizing, and keeping products accurate, beautiful, and guest-ready.

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 workspaces, repetition, accuracy, and the satisfaction of finishing work the right way. Some team members may come in newer and grow step by step. Others may bring stronger experience in food prep, production, inventory, stocking, labeling, quality control, or team training. Both types may fit here. What matters most is care, reliability, accuracy, coachability, and follow-through.

✨ What you’ll do

• 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.
• Follow production checklists, batch instructions, cleanliness standards, and store procedures.
• Keep production areas clean, orderly, food-safe, and efficient.
• Check labels, weights, ingredients, packaging, and product presentation for accuracy.
• Notice when products are low, mislabeled, messy, damaged, or out of place.
• Communicate clearly when supplies, labels, ingredients, packaging, or instructions are missing or unclear.
• Help create the behind-the-scenes quality that makes the store feel abundant, beautiful, and trustworthy.

🧂 You may be a great fit if you…

• Like hands-on work and take pride in doing things correctly.
• Are careful with details, labels, numbers, recipes, and instructions.
• Enjoy repetition, routine, and visible progress.
• Can follow a checklist without treating it as optional.
• Notice when something is messy, missing, mislabeled, 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 and customer trust are involved.

🌶️ This role has room to grow

Some Blending & Production Specialists begin in a junior production lane — learning recipes, labels, checklists, cleanliness standards, stocking, and production flow. Others may be ready for more senior production responsibility — helping prioritize production work, catch errors, train newer team members, and uphold quality standards with less direct supervision. For the right person, this role may also grow toward inventory support, operations support, keyholder responsibility, or broader store leadership over time. We are open to different starting points. We are looking for people who want to build real skill and take pride in excellent work.

✅ Requirements

• Reliable attendance and punctuality.
• Comfort standing, moving, reaching, scooping, weighing, filling, labeling, stocking, and cleaning during shifts.
• Ability to assist with unpacking, stocking, and moving items, generally up to 15–25 lbs.
• Willingness to follow recipes, checklists, production standards, and cleanliness procedures.
• Strong attention to detail and respect for accuracy.
• Comfort with repetitive hands-on work.
• Ability to receive feedback and adjust quickly.
• Ability to ask questions when something is unclear rather than guessing.
• Weekend, holiday, seasonal, or peak-period availability may be required depending on location and business needs.
• Prior experience in food prep, baking, production, packing, labeling, stocking, inventory, merchandising, retail operations, or quality-control work is helpful but not required.
• Age 18+ preferred for broader responsibility, equipment use, closing support, and growth opportunities.

💵 Compensation & growth

Compensation varies by experience, availability, location, and role fit.

Candidates may be considered for junior or senior production responsibility based on demonstrated accuracy, reliability, independence, prior experience, and ability to support quality standards.

Strong performers may be considered for additional responsibility or future growth opportunities in production, inventory support, operations, keyholding, or store leadership based on performance, availability, and business needs.

🎁 Perks & benefits

• 🧪 Hands-on culinary discovery — learn, blend, taste, organize, and explore.
• 🌶️ Work with spices, teas, sugars, salts, blends, gifts, and sensory products.
• 🧼 Satisfying behind-the-scenes work where details matter.
• 🚀 Room to grow in production, inventory, operations, and leadership.
• 🛍️ Team discounts + free monthly products — yes, please.
• 👃 A workplace that smells better than most jobs.

🌶️ Who we are

The Spice & Tea Exchange is a specialty retail shop bursting with flavor, warmth, and welcoming energy. We help guests explore the magic of taste — whether they are cooking dinner, building a gift, restocking a favorite tea, or discovering something completely new.

We believe retail can still feel human, personal, and fun. Our best team members do more than complete tasks. They create moments of trust, discovery, quality, and care — whether they are helping a guest directly or making sure every product behind the experience is accurate, beautiful, and ready.

Company Culture Card: https://tinyurl.com/4su3bmft

💛 Ready to help create the magic behind the shelves?

If you are careful, reliable, coachable, detail-oriented, and interested in hands-on production work with spices and teas, we’d love to meet you. Apply today and help us create joy for customers and growth for ourselves — every shift, every product, every detail.