Roasting Team Member

Position

Roaster

Operations

EMERYVILLE, CA

Roaster SUPERVISOR

NON-EXEMPT, 6504

Roasting Team Members work in a warehouse environment and manufacture all coffee products after the coffee is roasted. This includes but is not limited to blending, bagging, boxing, and shipping coffee. This job requires endurance and consistency throughout the work day. Team Members generally work Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.; however, these hours can vary on lighter or heavier production days.

Successful team members are physically able to meet the demands of the job, be punctual and resourceful. Team members are also engaged in our business by contributing to meetings and goal setting and by building their coffee knowledge and skill sets.

Regarding the work environment: the warehouse has some climate control features but is heavily influenced by the environment; therefore, it can be hot in the summer and cold in the winter. The candidate must be able to multitask and perform effectively with frequent and varied distractions in a noisy environment.

Position requires possession of a valid U.S. driver’s license.

• Receiving green coffee shipments and storing in logical, appropriate bays of warehouse.
• Pulling green coffee and loading roasters.
• Roasting coffee to order each day.
• Log data for the roasts produced and document organic purges.
• Work within the structure of Netsuite.
• Understand the quality control regiment as set forth by the Coffee Department.
• Perform as an effective and skilled coffee taster.
• Manage roasting byproducts (chaff, burlap, Grain Pro) to maximize reuse or recycling.
• Operate Optical Sorter and contribute to daily sorting of roasted coffee.
• Ability to learn and operate a forklift safely to load, unload pallets from trucks and for racking coffee.
• Assist in organizing and cleaning of roasting and green coffee work spaces. Including maintaining all equipment and tools used in the day to day operation of the roasting department.
• Assist in general daily warehouse maintenance/cleaning: sweeping, mopping, washing, blowing out debris with air compressor, etc.
• Acting as a position representative of the company during industry functions.

• Reaching: extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Standing: particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Walking: moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
• Fingering: picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Grasping: applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Feeling: perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word, those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing: perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.
• Repetitive motion: substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.

• Very heavy work. Exerting in excess of 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or in excess of 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

• Employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication parts at distances close to the eyes.
• Employee is required to have visual acuity to perform an activity such as: operating…