Profession coffee roaster
Coffee roasters control gas fired roasters to dry coffee beans. They dump coffee beans into roasting ovens and once roasted, they compare colour of roasting beans against specifications. They perform cooling of the beans by operating mechanical blowers.
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Personality Type
- Realistic / Conventional
Knowledge
- Temperature scales
Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature scales.
Skills
- Stand high temperatures
Stand high temperatures while keeping concentration and efficiency under demanding circumstances.
- Apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
Apply and follow national, international, and internal requirements quoted in standards, regulations and other specifications related with manufacturing of food and beverages.
- Operate weighing machine
Work with a weighing machine to measure raw, half-finished and finished products.
- Apply HACCP
Apply regulations regarding manufacture of food and food safety compliance. Employ food safety procedures based on Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP).
- Operate industrial ovens
Observe temperature and heat oven to the specified temperature. Operate roasting pans and facilitate the roasting process with instruments that prevent grain from sticking to the pans.
- Collect samples for analysis
Collect samples of materials or products for laboratory analysis.
- Tolerate strong smells
Tolerate strong smells expelled by the goods being processed during the production of goods.
- Manage kiln ventilation
Managing a product specific and energy efficient kiln ventilation.
- Apply different roasting methods
Employ different methods to roast cocoa beans, such as oven roasting, air roasting, drum roasting, coffee roaster, and hot air gun. Use the different methods according to the production requirements, type of cocoa beans, and desired chocolate product.
- Monitor roasting
Monitor the roasting of coffee beans and grains for proper degree of roasting to produce the desired flavours and colours.
- Apply GMP
Apply regulations regarding manufacture of food and food safety compliance. Employ food safety procedures based on Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).
- Maintain industrial ovens
Maintaining industrial ovens in order to ensure effective and correct operation.
- Manage flammable substances
Managing flammable substances to roasting operations and ensuring that safety measures are in place.
- Lift heavy weights
Lift heavy weights and apply ergonomic lifting techniques to avoid damaging the body.
- Check processing parameters
Check processing parameters to keep under control the technological processes.
- Operate a heat treatment process
Apply heat treatment aimed at preparing and preserving half-finished or finished food products.
- Monitor temperature in manufacturing process of food and beverages
Monitor and control required temperatures in the different phases of production until the product reaches suitable properties according to specifications.