PRODUCTION ROASTER

Job Description:

Denim Coffee is in an exciting stage of growth. Our newly renovated headquarters has a state-of-the art new IMF roaster complete with silos and digital controls. The cupping lab has all the tools required for consistent cupping sessions and our flash-chill room is built for the expansion of our cold coffee product line.

We are a small, growing company, so the job description is varied. We’re looking for someone who cares deeply about coffee – enough to really focus on the details. Roasting samples and cupping coffee weekly involves sensorial evaluation. Loading green coffee and bagging roasted coffee is fairly physical. Roasting coffee and fulfilling orders requires attention to detail.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Oversee and manage general roasting and production ops at our roastery
• Assist and manage all staff related to production (currently 1 additional roaster assistant, additional team members as growth/sales warrant)
• Assess current SOPs & systems and create new ones as needed
• Quality control, weekly cuppings and evaluations
• Keep track of green coffee inventory
• Manage roasting and production supplies and inventories
• Verify quality of received green beans and load green beans
• Roasting on IMF 60
• Clean and maintain roaster and roasting/production areas
• Develop roast profiles
• Sample roast green coffee (Ikawa)
• Work with CEO for green coffee purchasing & coffee offerings
• Release/order green coffee
• Warehouse inventory
• Get information for new coffees from suppliers & manage coffee program for staff
• Flash Chill Production

Knowledge/Skills Required:

• Attention to detail
• Capable palate for cupping/tasting
• Experience with Excel and ability to work well with general software/apps
• Experience with Cropster would be helpful, but willing to train the right candidate
• Problem solving
• Open to improvement
• Ability to lift 75 lbs, coffee roasting and production requires a lot of moving, packing, shipping coffee around the facility through the roasting/packing/shipping process

Work Environment:

Denim Coffee began in 2011 as side hustle and has grown to 6 cafes and headquarters, including a new roastery, cupping room/training facility, in-house bakery, and cold coffee production room. With immediate goals of 10 owned/operated cafes in 10 years, we are well on our way. Additionally, we seek to grow our wholesale coffee sales through other cafes using our coffee, retail bags in various retail outlets and larger contract roasting opportunities. With the new IMF 60 roaster installed in 2023, the company is built to grow. We have a small team, and in a lot of ways, still feel like a startup. Not everything is polished, but there are also good systems, structure in place to work from. We focus on quality but don’t ignore efficiency. Our motto is MAKE BETTER COFFEE and we are always on a path to be better. Consider join our team during an exciting time!

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $35,000.00 - $45,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance (50% employer paid)
• Health insurance (50% employer paid)
• Vision insurance (50% employer paid)
• Employee discount
• Life insurance
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Application Question(s):

• Why do you want to work at Denim Coffee?
• What do you like about coffee?
• Are you able to lift 75lbs?

Experience:

• Previous work in coffee
• Coffee and/or Barista: 2 years (Preferred)
• Roasting: 2 years (Preferred)
• Cupping: 1 year (Preferred)