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LOOKING FOR HIRE
Mr. Espresso, Specialty Coffee Roaster of progressive Italian espresso and coffees, based in Oakland, California, is searching for a passionate, talented, and motivated individual to become join our team as a Quality Control Supervisor. The Quality Control Supervisor will work closely with our Green Coffee Buyer to assist and lead efforts in the following: cupping of production roasts, developing roast profiles, maintaining blend profiles, coordinating production schedule, roasting and cupping samples, maintaining clean and well organized cupping room. Desired Experience, Skills, and Traits: minimum 3 years working in specialty coffee industry, minimum 1 year coffee roasting experience, extensive knowledge of different coffee brewing methods, strong verbal and written communication skills, strong mechanical and technological skills, strong organizational and time management skills, passionate, driven, independent, loyal, flexible, hard working and patient. Compensation is TBD based on experience, plus benefits which include health and 401k. Please send a cover letter along with a copy of your resume embedded in the email. Mr. Espresso has been family owned and operated since 1978 and is well known for our signature slow roasting over an Oak Wood fire, and direct importation and distribution of quality espresso machines from Italy. Founder Carlo DiRuocco is still involved in the business as are his wife, 3 children, and son in law. The next generation(John, Laurence, Luigi, Alex) are working hard everyday to move the company forward while staying true to its traditions. Send resumes to John DiRuocco at info@mrespresso.com.
Catholic Relief Services seeks a Director for the Borderlands Coffee Project, Quito, Ecuador. The 5 year, $10 million project will assist 3,200 smallholder coffee farmers in conflict-affected communities along the Colombia-Ecuador border to expand high-value market opportunities and reduce their vulnerability to hunger and environmental degradation. For more information, visit www.crs.org/about/careers. Req. # I297.
No. California industry leader has immediate opening for a Green Coffee Specialist. Responsible for managing green coffee quality and quantity. Quality assurance supervisor, supervise quality control team, manage QA/QC procedures. Send resume to mzuniga@rogersfamilyco.com.
Small coffee trading company is in need of a full time employee who is an excellent multi-tasker with outstanding communication and organizational skills. The ideal candidate will coordinate purchase and sales orders along with shipments by serving as liaison among sales people, warehouse staff, vendors, freight providers and customers. Other responsibilities will include updating the daily position and managing the daily close. Proficiency in Quick Books, Excel, Constant Contact, and Microsoft Office preferred. Some experience in logistics is a plus, but not required. To submit a resume, please e-mail lisa@ictcoffee.com.
Serda’s (www.serdas.com) is hiring a full-time roast master. Applicant must have at least 3 years experience roasting coffee. Skills required: roasting, cupping, profiling, blending, purchasing, graphic design, computer and excellent customer service. Duties include: roasting, fixing and performing maintenance on roaster, coffee equipment and general building maintenance, blending and creating profiles, using roasting software to add new profiles and roast coffee, taking and delivering orders and anything else required to contribute to the success of roasting exceptional coffee. Send resume to jobs@serdascoffee.com.
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Northern California coffee industry leader seeks qualified quality manager for corporate plant and oversight of two international plants. Send resume to hiring@tevishr.com.
Mr. Espresso, Specialty Coffee Roaster of progressive Italian espresso and coffees, based in Oakland, California, is searching for a passionate, talented, and motivated individual to become join our team as a Quality Control Supervisor. The Quality Control Supervisor will work closely with our Green Coffee Buyer to assist and lead efforts in the following: cupping of production roasts, developing roast profiles, maintaining blend profiles, coordinating production schedule, roasting and cupping samples, maintaining clean and well organized cupping room. Desired Experience, Skills, and Traits: minimum 3 years working in specialty coffee industry, minimum 1 year coffee roasting experience, extensive knowledge of different coffee brewing methods, strong verbal and written communication skills, strong mechanical and technological skills, strong organizational and time management skills, passionate, driven, independent, loyal, flexible, hard working and patient. Compensation is TBD based on experience, plus benefits which include health and 401k. Please send a cover letter along with a copy of your resume embedded in the email. Mr. Espresso has been family owned and operated since 1978 and is well known for our signature slow roasting over an Oak Wood fire, and direct importation and distribution of quality espresso machines from Italy. Founder Carlo DiRuocco is still involved in the business as are his wife, 3 children, and son in law. The next generation(John, Laurence, Luigi, Alex) are working hard everyday to move the company forward while staying true to its traditions. Send resumes to John DiRuocco at info@mrespresso.com.
Catholic Relief Services seeks a Director for the Borderlands Coffee Project, Quito, Ecuador. The 5 year, $10 million project will assist 3,200 smallholder coffee farmers in conflict-affected communities along the Colombia-Ecuador border to expand high-value market opportunities and reduce their vulnerability to hunger and environmental degradation. For more information, visit www.crs.org/about/careers. Req. # I297.
No. California industry leader has immediate opening for a Green Coffee Specialist. Responsible for managing green coffee quality and quantity. Quality assurance supervisor, supervise quality control team, manage QA/QC procedures. Send resume to mzuniga@rogersfamilyco.com.
Small coffee trading company is in need of a full time employee who is an excellent multi-tasker with outstanding communication and organizational skills. The ideal candidate will coordinate purchase and sales orders along with shipments by serving as liaison among sales people, warehouse staff, vendors, freight providers and customers. Other responsibilities will include updating the daily position and managing the daily close. Proficiency in Quick Books, Excel, Constant Contact, and Microsoft Office preferred. Some experience in logistics is a plus, but not required. To submit a resume, please e-mail lisa@ictcoffee.com.
Serda’s (www.serdas.com) is hiring a full-time roast master. Applicant must have at least 3 years experience roasting coffee. Skills required: roasting, cupping, profiling, blending, purchasing, graphic design, computer and excellent customer service. Duties include: roasting, fixing and performing maintenance on roaster, coffee equipment and general building maintenance, blending and creating profiles, using roasting software to add new profiles and roast coffee, taking and delivering orders and anything else required to contribute to the success of roasting exceptional coffee. Send resume to jobs@serdascoffee.com.
Your mother thinks you’re special, no matter what. We’re not your mother! CafeMakers provides effective consulting services for specialty coffee agriculture, roasting and brand marketing. www.cafemakers.com
Northern California coffee industry leader seeks qualified quality manager for corporate plant and oversight of two international plants. Send resume to hiring@tevishr.com.
CONSULTING / EDUCATION
Your mother thinks you’re special, no matter what. We’re not your mother! CafeMakers provides effective consulting services for specialty coffee agriculture, roasting and brand marketing. www.CafeMakers.com.
USED EQUIPMENT FOR SALE
2011 Probat L-12 with cyclone. Brand new, never been used, still in original crate. $26,400. Call Gadi at 917.642.7499.
2-Kilo Coffee-Tech Solar Automatic Roaster. Roast up to 4.4 lb. per roast, 2009 electric roaster with chaff collector and stainless steel roasting cart. $7,500. Weigh-Right stainless steel packaging machine will do 2 oz. to 5 lb. green/roasted coffee. $8,500. Ohio Location. Call 614.478.9596 or e-mail tnewman@creatingdemand.com.
Sivetz 12 lb. Fluid Air Bed Coffee Bean Roasting System $14,000 OBO. Brand new – parts still in box. Built in April 2010. Call Dale at 702-234-7339 or e-mail red.earth.coffee@gmail.com.
Coffee Equipment. 12 oz. Continental canning line complete with Parsons 9 head filler. Jabez Burns Jubilee 2 bag roaster. Blowers, fans, airlocks, bucket elevator, cyclones, parts for burns 4 bag 23R, 2 stir flex, 2 Gump grinding mill lower sections, granular mixer, bins, 2 antique warehouse grinders, Key-Pak VFFS. For more info e-mail kevin@bluejazzjava.com.
120-kilo Gothot roaster with afterburner, destoner & pneumatic green bean loader with vacuum dust collector; Gemstar Volumetric packaging machine with Jaguar printer. Call or e-mail for pricing and photos; pgill@latitudecoffee.com; 941.556.2600, ext. 306.
2-Kilo Coffee-Tech Solar Automatic Roaster. Roast up to 4.4 lb. per roast, 2009 electric roaster with chaff collector and stainless steel roasting cart. $7,500. Weigh-Right stainless steel packaging machine will do 2 oz. to 5 lb. green/roasted coffee. $8,500. Ohio Location. Call 614.478.9596 or e-mail tnewman@creatingdemand.com.
Sivetz 12 lb. Fluid Air Bed Coffee Bean Roasting System $14,000 OBO. Brand new – parts still in box. Built in April 2010. Call Dale at 702-234-7339 or e-mail red.earth.coffee@gmail.com.
Coffee Equipment. 12 oz. Continental canning line complete with Parsons 9 head filler. Jabez Burns Jubilee 2 bag roaster. Blowers, fans, airlocks, bucket elevator, cyclones, parts for burns 4 bag 23R, 2 stir flex, 2 Gump grinding mill lower sections, granular mixer, bins, 2 antique warehouse grinders, Key-Pak VFFS. For more info e-mail kevin@bluejazzjava.com.
120-kilo Gothot roaster with afterburner, destoner & pneumatic green bean loader with vacuum dust collector; Gemstar Volumetric packaging machine with Jaguar printer. Call or e-mail for pricing and photos; pgill@latitudecoffee.com; 941.556.2600, ext. 306.
HELP WANTED
Team minded roaster needed in Kona Hawaii. Applicant should have at least 3 years experience roasting coffee with cupping and profiling stills, etc. Duties include production roasting of Kona coffee using several sizes and brands of drum roasters, performing maintenance on roasters, creating custom profiles for customers. Send resume to brent@koacoffee.com.
Progressive Salt Spring Coffee Company seeks Head Roaster/Roasting Manager for it’s Richmond, BC, Canada roasting facility. Roasting, roast profiling, cupping, keen learner and great appreciation of ART of coffee roasting. Working with Director of Coffee. Very competitive compensation package. Beautiful Vancouver, BC, Canada area. david@saltspringcoffee.com, saltspringcoffee.com
ORGANIZATIONS
Cup For Education is a non-profit organization designed to help poor rural coffee communities of Central and Latin America build schools within their communities and assist in providing them with teachers and the basic tools needed to educate the future generations of coffee farmers. Cup for Education sponsors a teacher for the Solidarity School in the community of Los Alpes in Jinotega, Nicaragua. Entering its second year, Karen Gordon, president and founder of CFE, says, “We are pleased to have raised enough funds to enable us to sponsor the teacher again for the school. The additional teacher allows this community to send children to school to further their education by another grade level.” For more information, go to www.cupforeducation.org or call 800.458.2233.