Roasting Support

**Your daily mission**:Support our Roasting team to ensure they have all they need to roast the best coffee in the world

**Who Are We?**

We roast Canada’s #1 whole bean coffee. Our Arabica beans are 100% certified Organic and Fairtrade. We’ve been doing this for over 26 years, smack dab in the middle of the Rocky Mountains.

And our coffee beans aren’t the only ones winning awards around here. Our human beans kick ass too Kicking Horse Coffee has been a certified Great Place to Work® since 2015. In 2018, we were named the #1 Best Workplace in Canada. Whoa We believe creating a workplace that offers great careers _and_ access to an exceptional lifestyle. It’s why we’ve made a commitment to become a living wage employer.

The spirit of Kicking Horse Coffee can be summed up in five words: awake, courageous, intentional, sophisticated, and love, yep, love. These are the values at our core, the foundation of our culture.

**Who Are You?**

You love to work with a team. You are a collaborator by nature and thrive in a role where you can support those around you. Your attention to detail shines through your high level of quality and your process-oriented mindset. Because who doesn’t love a solid process? Oh, not to mention, you love a good dance party. Woah. You sound like Roasting Support material.

**What Will You Do?**

You will maneuver, stack, and load green coffee into the roasting hoppers, to get roasted to perfection You will set up the roasting room, follow green bean recipes, clean equipment, and transport beans throughout the facility. From our Roasting Operators to our Packaging team, you will support our crew members to ensure we roast the best coffee in the world.

**Responsibilities**
- Calculate our green bean needs daily, accurately, speedily, right down to the recipe.
- Manually load green beans into roasting hoppers, following a precise bean recipe.
- Safely transport coffee beans throughout our facility, via forklift.
- Follow our departmental checklists and standard operating procedures.
- Operate our Rotary Batch Mixer to create Post Roast Blends.
- Enter and track detailed records of coffee information and recipes into our ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning System)
- Participate and engage in Roasting Department staff meetings. Connecting, problem solving, and bringing ideas for improvement.
- Clean and maintain our roasting equipment, ensuring it is operating as smoothly and safely as possible This includes hoppers, pipes, de-stoners, bins, etc.
- Join our team in brewing and flavour evaluation.
- Provide Roasting Staging and Roaster relief coverage when needed, teamwork makes the dream work

**Qualifications**
- Previous experience working in a physically demanding role or manufacturing environment. Roles focused on supporting a large team through cleaning and staging is an asset
- An ability and desire to work cross-functionally to support all production departments.
- You have a narrow forklift operator certificate or are willing to be trained and obtain one.
- Physical ability to lift up to 25-50lbs, with help from our team and green bean tech
- Legally entitled to work in Canada.

**Culture Characteristics**

We are looking for people that embody our purpose, soul, and spirit. We want to work with folks that will nurture and enhance our culture of belonging, inclusivity, and love. In practice, this means you are:

- **Awake**:Reliable and ready to wake up and kick ass. You have excellent time management skills combined with a strong sense of urgency. You are aware of how you impact the world and those around you, as well as how the world, impacts you.
- **Intentional**:You do everything with good intention. You are a strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communicator. You act with kindness, respect, and professionalism.
- **Sophisticated**:You annihilate mediocrity. You give a damn. You show up. You have a high standard for quality and a sharp attention to detail.
- **Love**: You have a positive and fun disposition. You have a “mug half full” approach to life. You are a collaborator by nature and enjoy working alongside a big team. You are passionate about coffee and people.
- **Courageous**: You are curious, and you ask questions. You are eager to learn. From blend profiles, tastes, to processes. You are adaptable and face change head on You’ve got grit

**Additional Information**
- This is a full-time, permanent position in our Roasting department.
- We work eight hours a day, Monday to Friday. Shift times can fluctuate depending on production demand, which means that start times can vary between 6:00 am and 1:00 pm.

**Perks to Pique Your Interest**

We believe that when individuals thrive, communities thrive. At Kicking Horse Coffee, we offer a wellness inspired, experienced based compensation and benefits package. Alongside discounted coffee beans, we provide:

- Living wages for all our roles, specifically this role starts at $21.39 per hour.
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