Customers, processors, and inventory records depend on the cheese weigher's scale tickets — at a dairy, creamery, or cheese-aging operation, you weigh wheels, blocks, or bulk lots at receiving, inventory checks, or shipment.
A cheese weigher works between the production-and-aging floor and the inventory ledger — wheels off the press, blocks pulled from aging caves, lots staged for shipment all crossing the scale. You're often at the platform scale with a clipboard or ticket printer. Lot weights accurate and inventory reconciliations matching anchor the visible measures.
Where it gets demanding is the inventory shrink that aging cheese naturally produces — moisture loss across aging changes weight, and the weigher's readings document the variance. Variance across employers is real: at major dairy producers and aging facilities cheese weighers work within structured inventory programs; at small creameries and artisan operations the role combines with broader production work.
It fits people who are detail-precise, comfortable in cold or refrigerated environments, and steady through inventory-cycle work. The trade-off is the cold-environment exposure typical of cheese-aging facilities. Dairy and food-industry credentials anchor advancement.
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View all Admin & Office roles →Customers, processors, and inventory records depend on the cheese weigher's scale tickets — at a dairy, creamery, or cheese-aging operation, you weigh wheels, blocks, or bulk lots at receiving, inventory checks, or shipment.
Median pay for a Cheese Weigher is about $46K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $35K to $60K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Critical Thinking, Reading Comprehension, Speaking, Monitoring, and Social Perceptiveness.
Most people in this role hold a high school diploma.
Employment in this field is projected to decline about 4.8% through 2034, with roughly 49,720 people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include Inventory Control Specialist, Senior Inventory Control Specialist, and Inventory Specialist.
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