Roaster at TALITHA KOUM COFFEE ROASTERS INC – San Diego, California

Position Summary

Execute all aspects of the production process including but not limited to roasting, post roast blending, coffee packaging, tea packaging, order building, physical inventory counts, cold brew production, and warehousing. Train underneath Director of Coffee for technical roasting standards and quality control, and reports to Operations Manager for daily scheduling, performance monitoring, and daily production needs.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Learn all aspects of the coffee roasting process and execute according to SOP

Perform start up, shutdown, cleaning, and basic maintenance of coffee roaster

Participate in regular coffee cuppings to ensure ability to detect QC issues in roasting process

Monitor roasting logs and maintain accurate records of roasting profiles

Execute all aspects of coffee packaging process, including sticker labeling, filling, and sealing

Produce packaged product to order and par system

Perform daily and weekly finished good inventory counts

Assist in all other areas of coffee production and tea packaging

Note:

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be

performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employees will be required to

follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties

requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.

All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to

possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To

perform this job successfully, the incumbents will possess the skills aptitudes and abilities

to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose

a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The

requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills or

abilities.

This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than

an at will relationship.

Minimum Qualifications (Education, Experience, Skills)

Forklift certified (good to have, in-house training available)

Strong attention to detail and focus

Excellent communication and data entry skills

Ability to work in a fast paced environment and hit order deadlines

Ability to lift and move bags and boxes of up to 60 pounds

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The description of the physical demands and the work environment characteristics here

represent those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform and those an

employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this position.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to

perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.

The employee frequently is required to stand. The employee is occasionally required to

sit; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or

balance; and twist, bend, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently

lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, occasionally lift and/or move up to 153 pounds, and

occasionally push/pull 1400 lbs using supplied equipment. Specific vision abilities

required by this job include close vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus. Tasting

and smelling abilities are required frequently to distinguish with a degree of accuracy,

differences or similarities in intensity or quality of flavors and/or odors

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving

mechanical parts, airborne particles, and hot liquids. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.