Description
Green coffee coordinators organise and manage the operations performed by workers in coffee plants and plan the functioning of machines that blend various types of green coffee beans.
Duties
Here are some of the duties of a green coffee coordinator:
- Organizing and managing the operations performed by workers in coffee plants
- Planning the functioning of machines that blend various coffee beans
- Working closely with green coffee buyers and importers to ensure that the coffee beans meet the required standards and specifications
- Tracking and roasting samples
- Providing feedback to importers and producers
- Ensuring that the coffee beans are of high quality
- Overseeing the logistics of green coffee transportation and storage
- Maintaining records of green coffee inventory
- Monitoring the supply and demand of green coffee
- Working with other departments to ensure that the green coffee is processed and packaged according to the required standards.
Other titles
The following job titles also refer to green coffee coordinator:
coffee coordinator
green coffee manager
green coffee co-ordinator
green coffee supervisor
Working conditions
Green coffee coordinators often work in office settings but may also travel to coffee-growing regions or production facilities for supplier visits or quality assessments. They may work closely with coffee growers, exporters, importers, and roasters, requiring effective communication and collaboration. The role may involve some physical labor, such as lifting and carrying bags of green coffee beans during quality assessments. The work schedule can vary and may include occasional weekends or extended hours during peak seasons or when coordinating international shipments.
Minimum qualifications
The education and training requirements for green coffee coordinators vary by employer, but most positions require a minimum of a high school diploma or equivalent, as well as experience in the coffee industry.
ISCO skill level
ISCO skill level is defined as a function of the complexity and range of tasks and duties to be performed in an occupation. It is measured on a scale from 1 to 4, with 1 the lowest level and 4 the highest, by considering:
- the nature of the work performed in an occupation in relation to the characteristic tasks and duties
- the level of formal education required for competent performance of the tasks and duties involved and
- the amount of informal on-the-job training and/or previous experience in a related occupation required for competent performance of these tasks and duties.
Green coffee coordinator is a Skill level 3 occupation.
Green coffee coordinator career path
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Long term prospects
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Essential knowledge and skills
Essential knowledge
This knowledge should be acquired through learning to fulfill the role of green coffee coordinator.
- Quality assurance methodologies: Quality assurance principles, standard requirements, and the set of processes and activities used for measuring, controlling and ensuring the quality of products and processes.
- Food and beverage industry: The respective industry and the processes involved in the food and beverage industry, such as raw material selection, processing, packaging, and storage.
Essential skills and competences
These skills are necessary for the role of green coffee coordinator.
- Mark differences in colours: Identify differences between colours, such as shades of colour.
- Enter receipt of coffee inventory: Enter receipts of coffee inventory into resource planning system. Pay coffee and warehouse invoices.
- Mix grain according to recipe: Mix grains according to recipe in order to get the desired product. The mixing can be done before or after dumping the whole grains into steel drums for fermentation.
- Perform coffee tastings: Perform coffee tastings and coffee demonstrations whether for improving the product in the production process or for showcasing the final product. Taste coffee to objectively evaluate its quality.
- Ensure public safety and security: Implement the relevant procedures, strategies and use the proper equipment to promote local or national security activities for the protection of data, people, institutions, and property.
- Conduct coffee moisture tests: Test coffee samples for moisture content.
- Examine green coffee beans: Examine green coffee beans ensuring that they are all approximately the same colour, shape and size. Beans of the same size will roast more evenly, whereas smaller beans may roast quicker and affect the overall taste.
- Apply HACCP: Apply regulations regarding manufacture of food and food safety compliance. Employ food safety procedures based on Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP).
- Track coffee deliveries: Track coffee and green coffee samples deliveries from vendors. Receive and record all delivery orders and invoices and report to the director of coffee purchasing.
- Lift heavy weights: Lift heavy weights and apply ergonomic lifting techniques to avoid damaging the body.
- 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 GMP: Apply regulations regarding manufacture of food and food safety compliance. Employ food safety procedures based on Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).
Optional knowledge and skills
Optional knowledge
This knowledge is sometimes, but not always, required for the role of green coffee coordinator. However, mastering this knowledge allows you to have more opportunities for career development.
- Effects of pesticides in food raw materials: Different types of pesticides used for food raw materials to control proper use of those substances preserving main characteristics of products.
Optional skills and competences
These skills and competences are sometimes, but not always, required for the role of green coffee coordinator. However, mastering these skills and competences allows you to have more opportunities for career development.
- Store raw food materials: Keep in reserve raw materials and other food supplies, following stock control procedures.
- Keep inventory of goods in production: Keep inventory of goods whether they are goods in the front end (i.e. raw materials), intermediate, or back end (i.e. finished products). Count goods and store them for the following production and distribution activities.
- Analyse trends in the food and beverage industries: Investigate trends in foodstuffs related to consumers preferences. Examine key markets based on both product type and geography as well as technological improvements in the industry.
- Support management of raw materials: Support management of raw materials and plants required by the department for production. Oversee the needs for material and notify when stock levels reach re-order levels.
- Liaise with colleagues: Liaise with fellow colleagues to ensure common understanding on work related affairs and agree on the necessary compromises the parties might need to face. Negotiate compromises between parties as to ensure that work in general run efficiently towards the achievement of the objectives.
- Work in a food processing team: Collaborate in a team with other food processing professionals in service of the food and beverages industry.
- Liaise with managers: Liaise with managers of other departments ensuring effective service and communication, i.e. sales, planning, purchasing, trading, distribution and technical.
- Grade coffee beans: Grade coffee beans based on their characteristics, defects, size, colour, moisture content, taste, acidity, body, or aroma.
ISCO group and title
3122 – Manufacturing supervisors
References
- Green coffee coordinator – ESCO
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