Behind the Cheese: Jelle and Mina (Heerenveen)

Behind the Cheese: Jelle and Mina (Heerenveen)

20 Apr 2024

Take a look at our production location Heerenveen, where more than 100 colleagues work every day. Jelle and Mina take you through their daily work.
Jelle: "Working at this location is varied and challenging because you work in several departments at the same time. So you become multi-deployable. Every day we are involved in making our (h)honest, award-winning specialty cheeses, which we sell daily to our customers in more than 40 countries and in our more than 35 own shops.
Mina: We work in a small close-knit team, the family feeling is not just an empty promise you really experience it, the plant manager knows all the employees on the floor. There is also plenty of opportunity to develop yourself (and be considered for other positions in the company)

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Behind the Cheese: Coby - From farmer's daughter to cheese ambassador

02 Jan 2026

As a logistics production worker, Coby gives our cheeses a face:
"It's physical work: labelling cheeses, banding and tamping them for a nice finish. Usually up to 500 cheeses pass through your hands a day. You feel it in your arms, but the day flies by." She enjoys the variety. "Every order is different: different cheeses, different labels. Sometimes you work with silk blotting, sometimes with banding, sometimes you colour cheeses. That's what makes it fun."

Behind the Cheese: Coby - From farmer's daughter to cheese ambassador

Behind the Cheese: Lieuwe, from Welder / Mechanic and Furniture Maker to Cheese Maker

17 Nov 2025

After three years as a furniture maker and before that as a maintenance mechanic in the dairy industry, Lieuwe joined Henri Willig through a friend who already worked at Henri Willig. "I first worked through a technical company already in the dairy industry as a welder/mechanic where I solved breakdowns and was in technical service. Because of corona, that work stopped, after a period as a joiner I still ended up back in the dairy. "Although shift work pays a nice salary, I wanted above all to do something I really enjoyed - not just for the money."

Behind the Cheese: Lieuwe, from Welder / Mechanic and Furniture Maker to Cheese Maker

Behind the Cheese: Wout, experienced cheese maker Heerenveen

23 Aug 2025

After his secondary education, Wout started a higher vocational accountancy course but did not see a future in an office job. Several jobs in production followed, but nowhere did he really get the chance to grow. At Henri Willig, Wout started 6 years ago as a starting cheese maker.
"Many people think that shift work is incompatible with a family but the opposite is true, because of the working hours and number of hours I see my children more than the average father with normal working hours."

Behind the Cheese: Wout, experienced cheese maker Heerenveen

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