Roasting Assistant

Location: Haslemere, Surrey, England, UK

Hours: 35 hours per week Monday - Friday

Pay: £12.60 Per Hour

Contract Type: Permanent

Start Date: ASAP no later than January 2nd 2025

Must have right to work in the UK.

Date Posted: 4th December 2024

Description

Pact Coffee is about making coffee a force for good. With our pioneering direct-trade model, we go straight to the world’s most talented farmers, pay them a truly premium price for truly phenomenal coffee, roast and grind it in our Surrey roastery, and deliver it to customers just days later. By bringing this fresh, exceptional coffee to customers, we can improve the experience of UK coffee drinkers while changing lives at its source. This is about great-quality coffee, not charity. A win-win situation.

What we do

• Source 100% speciality-grade coffee.
• Pay farmers significantly more than the commodity-market price.
• Encourage and fund sustainability projects at home and abroad.
• Roast our coffee within seven days of delivery.
• Have a good-willed, collaborative approach to the coffee industry as a whole.

You’ll join us at an exciting period of growth and be a key player in our next chapter.

Equality Statement

At Pact Coffee, we are committed to creating a working environment which is safe, based on mutual respect and enabling people to be themselves. We acknowledge that the diversity of our workforce should be reflective of the society in which we live. Be that age, disability, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, ethnicity, religion or belief and marital status, education or socio-economic background. Finally, we believe that championing diversity and inclusion among not only our employees but also the farmers we work with is critical to our success.

The Role and Job Description

- Location: Haslemere, Surrey

- Contract: Full-time

- Hours: 35 hours per week Monday - Friday 0800 - 16:00 (subject to change)

- Pay: £12.60 (Real Living Wage Employer)

As the Roastery Assistant, you will be working directly with a small team of coffee specialists. Your main role will be assisting the production roasters in the daily operation of our two 70kg Loring Peregrine roasters by loading and unloading coffee. You will also be responsible for the upkeep of the green coffee area and daily cleaning of the equipment.

This is a fantastic opportunity to enter the world of specialty coffee, with potential for further training in coffee roasting, and offers great exposure to all aspects of the industry.

No prior experience required, but a passion for coffee and desire to learn will be highly regarded. This role does require heavy lifting, moving up to 70 kg sacks of green coffee. This is an entry-level position.

As the Roastery Assistant, your main responsibilities will include:

• Loading sacks of green coffee into the roasters according to the roasting schedule
• Organising stock of roasted coffee lines
• Maintenance of the air filtration system and the two Coffee Roasters
• Owning organisation of the green coffee area, consolidating pallets
• Receiving green coffee deliveries
• Setting up the Roasters ready for the day
• Weekly Green Coffee Stock count

What we’re looking for:

We're looking for someone with a keen eye for detail, an ability to work well in a team, who is well-organised and can do some heavy lifting.

Essential requirements:

• Able to follow procedures
• Organised and detail-oriented
• Physically fit, able to move heavy loads
• Flexible and highly adaptable to a busy, reactive work environment
• Basic knowledge of Excel/Google Sheets

Desirable:

• Forklift trained/certified
• Worked in a BRCGS certified environment

Benefits

If you’re still reading, then we might be the right match for you. At Pact Coffee, Haslemere, we offer the following employee experience:

• Free coffee credit each month to order coffee for home
• Juno Points
• Discounts including 40% off Sage coffee machines
• 28 days annual leave per calendar year (including Bank Holidays)
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Unlimited coffee at work, along with snacks and soft drinks

Start Date: As soon as possible but no later than January 2nd 2025.