Coffee Roaster
What the work is
Selects, blends and roasts coffee beans to ensure flavour consistency, quality and optimal roast levels to produce distinct coffee varieties.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Inspects and sorts green coffee beans for roasting
- Loads green coffee beans into coffee roasting machinery and operates machinery, such as drum or air roasters and quenching equipment
- Monitors and adjusts temperature, time and airflow settings during the coffee bean roasting processes, including the cracking process, to ensure quality and efficiency
- Tests and checks roasted coffee beans for quality and flavour consistency
- Weighs and packs roasted coffee beans accurately, and keeps track of inventory to prepare for distribution
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in a food and drink factory with a bakery line, a dairy room and a packing hall. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- A line runs smoothly for a whole shift and the product coming off is exactly right
- The smell of fresh bread or roasting coffee as you start an early morning
- A batch passes quality check first time and you know your care made the difference
Hard days
- An early start in the cold or heat of the production hall
- A machine jams in the middle of a big order and the whole line stops
- Cleaning down a line at the end of a long shift, when you are very tired
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 831133, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.