Head Roaster

Fieldwork Coffee

We're looking for an experienced coffee roaster to join our team as Head Roaster, in a full-time, permanent position. Your role in our small team will be crucial to our success; pushing forward the quality of our roasted coffee, and leading the team that supports it.
- Take an active role in
- Work exclusively with incredible, elegant coffees
- Be a big part of a small team

About Us

Fieldwork Coffee is a modern Australian micro-roastery. We’re small-scale, quality-focused, and future-minded. We strive to source the world’s best coffees, roast them to the highest standard, and share them with our webshop and wholesale customers around Australia and overseas. In doing so, we hope to champion the work of growers we buy from, and establish a small network of long-term, equitable purchasing relationships, and provide our customers with coffees of exceptional quality.

The Role

We’re looking for an experienced coffee roaster to join our team as Head Roaster, in a full-time, permanent position. Your role in our small team will be crucial to our success; pushing forward the quality of our roasted coffee, and leading the team that supports it. The role also involves a lot of cleaning, pre-weighing, maintenance, record keeping, and organisation.

Who’s The Role For?

Key Responsibilities
- Sourcing
- Making a meaningful and informed contribution to our green coffee buying decisions
- Liaising with supply chain partners about samples, coffee information, arrival updates
- Preparing pre-ship, offer, and arrival green coffee samples for evaluation
- Logging green coffee samples and associated data in Cropster
- Collating sourcing information for our annual Transparency Report
- Roasting
- Roasting our coffee range to ever-increasing levels of quality and consistency
- Overseeing the on-time, accurate, and quality-driven running of our production days
- Ensuring our roastery workflows are safe, efficient, and human-centric
- Establishing, tracking and improving roast goal success rates in Cropster
- Staying up-to-date with developments in modern roasting theories and technologies
- Quality Control
- Setting up and leading cupping and espresso quality control sessions
- Utilising sensory analysis, with key roast metrics and data, to understand roast quality
- Identifying, recording, and actioning roast profile changes required to improve quality
- Maintenance
- Conducting weekly roaster preventative maintenance and deep cleaning
- Troubleshooting and solving mechanical or technical problems in the roastery
- Maintaining an inventory of spare parts, required tools, and maintenance supplies
- Leadership
- Creating a positive, encouraging, and supportive work environment
- Actively leading, training, supervising, and supporting other roastery staff
- Working with the owner to identify and deploy staff training opportunities

Everyone Contributes To:

- Identifying and connecting with potential wholesale sales opportunities
- Providing customer support to our wholesale, webshop, and co-roasting customers
- Picking, packing, and shipping wholesale orders
- Packing and shipping webshop orders using Shopify
- Delivering wholesale orders to customers in Melbourne and Geelong
- General cleaning of roastery, green store, cupping room, and toilets
- Staying informed and communicating with colleagues in Slack
- Pitching in and helping colleagues out when required

Role Requirements
- Three years experience in a similar role, covering sourcing, roasting, and maintenance
- Extensive experience with Probat shop roasters, or similar roasting formats
- An active and connected interest in modern coffee roasting, locally and around the world
- Excellent time-management, leadership, and communication skills
- A bias-towards-action approach
- A full driver’s license with no restrictions or demerits
- Competency with Google Suite: Mail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Calendar

Compensation
- $75,000 - $85,000 per year, dependent on experience
- Statutory superannuation and holidays