Roastery Team Lead

You will:

• Ensure our coffee production is fully completed and shipped each day through communication with our team members and guiding our production progresses throughout the day. 
• Train production team members on all packaging tasks using our approved training content, and on-the-job training. Cross-training all team members on packaging processes.
• Help lead a team of talented craftspeople and dedicated production team members. Your systemic improvements will ease your team’s workload and bring clarity to increasingly complex scenarios.
• Measure production performance to identify Key Performance Indicators and help devise a strategy towards continuous improvement.
• Oversee our processing equipment calibration and maintenance schedule, ensuring our equipment is always in top performance to meet our production output needs.
• Create SOPs (standard operating procedures) and best practices for achieving consistency in all of our production processes.
• Collaborate with production leadership to strategize and create plans that will prepare and support our team through seasons of increased production output and new product releases.
• Maintain opening/closing checklists and logs, perform daily team huddles, and communicate and troubleshoot any production setbacks.
• Monitor and maintain inventory levels of production supplies. Updating inventory low-level reorder points, and re-order quantities for production items as necessary. 
• Collaborate with all members of the coffee production team, professionally, respectfully and with integrity.
• Advocate for the craft of coffee roasting through observation, instruction and committed study.
• Roast every batch of coffee with meticulous attention to timing, temperature and progress.
• Support the business with extensive note taking; so that we can accurately detail batch history and coffee metrics.
• Engage in the sensory analysis of our roasted coffee; with intention toward continuous improvement, day to day, week to week, and month to month.
• Possess a thorough understanding of how to safely and responsibly use all coffee roasting equipment.
• Maintain and clean our equipment diligently, ensuring it’s in top form for all of our needs.
• Support all food safety, quality, and Good Manufacturing Practices rules and regulations.
• Engage with each step of the coffee production process with the intention of developing a thorough understanding of our coffee roasting, packaging and shipping procedures.

You are:

• A perceptive multi-tasker, working with a sense of urgency and purpose to accomplish tasks efficiently.
• A collaborator at your core, and a team player who is flexible to changes as our production demands shift.
• A curious troubleshooter, always looking to find a better solution for any production challenges we encounter.
• Empathetic and hospitable, always eager to listen, understand, learn and field questions for your team and coworkers.
• An ambassador for the craft of coffee. You actively engage in thoughtful discussion of your craft, and positively promote the business of coffee, Blue Bottle, and our friends in the coffee business.

You have:

• A deep love and respect for delicious coffee, food, exceptional guest experiences, your work, and your team.
• Working knowledge of basic hardware and tools.
• Understanding of the many facets of coffee quality.
• Understanding of the basic concepts of coffee roasting.
• The ability to speak, read and write English proficiently.
• Basic math skills.
• Comfort using online tools including Microsoft Suite and Google Suite.

Physical requirements:

• This role is a physical one and the physical demands outlined below are representative of those that must be met for a team member to be successful in the role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job which we’ve mapped out below. 


You have:


• The ability to stand, walk, sit for long periods of time (at least 8 hours per day and 5 days per week)
• The use of hands to handle or feel and the ability to reach with hands and arm
• The ability to stoop, kneel, or crouch
• The ability to squat, bend, twist and reach for items below waist level or above shoulders
• The ability to lift, push/pull, carry and/or move up to 50 pounds
• The ability to listen and speak
• The ability to climb ladders, stairs, ramps and uneven floor and/or surfaces as needed
• The ability to have close visual acuity to perform repetitive visual checking, counting, spotting small defects, determine accuracy of numbers and package 

A few benefits we offer:

• Comprehensive Health, dental, and vision coverage for eligible employees starting on your first day
• 401(k) plan
• One bag a week of coffee for production team members.
• Paid time off.

Compensation

• $27.75 /hr