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Join the BC team!  Positions with our company include:

Packing Department:  *Sorry, no current openings*
We currently have 1 shift available - Full time days from 8:30am to 5:00pm Monday through Friday*
*Overtime and/or Saturdays may be scheduled during our busy season, Fall and Winter.
*Mondays & Tuesdays required 'til 6:30pm during our busy season.

Positions in this department require energetic and motivated people who like to keep busy, and who pay attention to detail and have a genuine concern for quality control for our customers.  Must be able to work on your feet (padded mats provided).  Work includes picking items off a packing list and double checking to make sure the correct items are picked.  This can include packaging products if the shelf is empty, including pouring liquid fragrance oils and dyes (aprons, gloves and splash goggles provided).  This department also employs packers, who take the picked orders and double check each item for accuracy and carefully pack the order to be shipped out. 

Office:
Full time days from 7:30am to 5:05pm Mondays, and 8:30am to 5:05pm Tuesday through Friday.*
*Overtime hours and some Saturdays may be scheduled during our busy season, Fall and Winter.

Positions in this department require basic office skills including typing, computer experience including knowledge of Windows, MS Word and the Internet, good phone skills with a pleasant speaking voice and a friendly attitude toward customer service.  Must have a good memory and be able to familiarize yourself with hundreds of products, as well as the layout of our website.  Energetic people with a great personality and a sincere eagerness to help customers are a must!  Our customers are our business! 

Warehouse:  *Sorry, no current openings*
Hours are full time from 8:30am to 5:00pm Monday through Friday.*
*Some overtime hours and Saturdays may be necessary during our busy season, Fall and Winter.

Positions in this department may include operating a fork lift and climbing ladders, lifting heavy boxes, general maintenance, packaging products such as wax slabs and candle gel, organizing bulk merchandise such as pallets, drums and boxes, pulling stock for packing department, etc. (hard hats provided).

Tech Support:  *Sorry, no current openings*
This would be a work from home position as an online tech support helper.  This would require a good amount of experience & knowledge in the making of various types of candles, gel candles, soaps, bath & body products, and other miscellaneous fragrant items such as incense, potpourri, air freshener, etc.  Do you have a great knack for making creative fragrant hand crafted items and love to help others learn the art?  Are you a web addict and online practically all the time posting on candle & soapmaking message boards and e-mail discussion lists?  Do you use primarily BC supplies in your products?  Then you may be perfect for this job!  We receive a great deal of tech support e-mail on a daily basis, asking for all kinds of information and advice on our products and how to use them, as well as creative ways to market them and general help on the subject.  We also run an instant online chat program on our site called Human Click, where the customers can speak to a live operator instantly by chatting through our site!  This is a great way to help our customers with any technical questions they may have, or just helping them find things on our site.  But in order to ensure that help is always there, we need to build an online team of tech support helpers that are regularly online during various shifts including days, evenings and weekends.  If you already spend much of your free time chatting and posting on message boards helping other candlemakers, why not start being compensated for it!  Think you have the right stuff?  E-mail TechHelpers@candlemaking.net for more info!
*Requirements:  Must be a current Bitter Creek customer who is actively using our products.  Must have at least 2 years candlemaking experience and have at least some experience and knowledge in soapmaking and the other various products we sell.  Must have good grammar and spelling skills.

Applications & resumes are accepted in the front office during regular business hours,
Monday through Friday 9:00am to 5:00pm.  No phone calls, please apply in person.
We are located in Sanborn next to the Chickadee Restaurant.  Our mailing address is:  Route 4, Box 184 Ashland, WI. 54806
We offer a comfortable environment to work in, including indoor and outdoor lunch/break areas (smoking allowed outdoors only), soda & snack machines, a kitchen area with coffee maker, refrigerator, toaster oven and microwaves.  There is also a restaurant next door if you prefer not to bring your lunch.  We offer all of the standard paid holidays, holiday bonuses, paid vacation time after 1 year of full time employment, a retirement plan & dental insurance after 90 days of full time employment, and we are currently looking into a group health insurance plan to offer as well.
Our goal is to build & maintain a winning team of long term staff members, not just employees!


 

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