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.

Personality Type

• Realistic / Conventional

Knowledge

• Temperature scales

  Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature scales.

Skills

• Tolerate strong smells

  Tolerate strong smells expelled by the goods being processed during the production of goods.

• Collect samples for analysis

  Collect samples of materials or products for laboratory analysis.

• 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.

• 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.

• Manage kiln ventilation

  Managing a product specific and energy efficient kiln ventilation.

• 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.

• Apply HACCP

  Apply regulations regarding manufacture of food and food safety compliance. Employ food safety procedures based on Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP).

• Maintain industrial ovens

  Maintaining industrial ovens in order to ensure effective and correct operation.

• Lift heavy weights

  Lift heavy weights and apply ergonomic lifting techniques to avoid damaging the body.

• Stand high temperatures

  Stand high temperatures while keeping concentration and efficiency under demanding circumstances.

• Check processing parameters

  Check processing parameters to keep under control the technological processes.

• Apply GMP

  Apply regulations regarding manufacture of food and food safety compliance. Employ food safety procedures based on Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).

• Monitor roasting

  Monitor the roasting of coffee beans and grains for proper degree of roasting to produce the desired flavours and colours.

• Manage flammable substances

  Managing flammable substances to roasting operations and ensuring that safety measures are in place.

• 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.

• Operate a heat treatment process

  Apply heat treatment aimed at preparing and preserving half-finished or finished food products.

• Operate weighing machine

  Work with a weighing machine to measure raw, half-finished and finished products.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB