Careers
We are hiring (March 2025)
HOSPITALITY/COFFEE ROASTERY PRODUCTION ASSISTANT (CASUAL)
To apply – please contact jobs@owenscoffee.com
Who are we?
Owens Coffee is an independent, award-winning organic, and fair trade coffee roaster based in Devon’s Ivybridge. We specialise in producing 100% certified organic and Fairtrade coffee.
What will you be doing?
This is a varied role which involves working as a barista in the on-site 'Perfect Waves Café', as well as supporting our production team in the coffee roastery.
This is a great role for someone with barista experience looking for a new challenge in their coffee career. Whilst barista experience is essential and previous roastery experience would be an advantage, the production work element of this role is entry-level and full training will be provided.
If you are invested in learning more about coffee this could be the role for you!
You will become an important member of our team, supporting customers as part of our production and our café/retail departments.
Duties to include (but not limited to):
- Serving excellent coffee to our café customers, along with other food, drinks and purchases
- Assisting customers face to face in our café/shop – listening, advising, processing orders/purchases and handling cash.
- Working with our production team to fulfil (packing & processing) wholesale and retail orders
- Maintaining good working order of packing and roasting equipment
- Maintaining cleanliness of the production area
- Reading, understanding & ensuring orders (online, trade, retail & subscriptions) are accurately fulfilled
- Assisting the production team to meet order delivery deadlines & delight our customers
- Learning about and helping to maintain stock levels of roasted coffee and other products
- Keeping the roastery spaces clean and organised
You will learn...
- About the process of coffee production
- Customer service skills
- About maintaining stock levels in coffee production and for other stock inventory
- Advanced barista skills (how to make great coffee with an espresso machine and other brewing methods).
- There will also be an opportunity to learn coffee roasting techniques.
What will you need?
You’ll need to be interested in the coffee & beverages industry and ideally have:
- barista skills and experience
- skills in Maths & English required
- good communication skills (in person and in writing)
- a friendly and personable character
- a team-member mentality
- confidence to deal face to face (on the phone/via messaging) with the general public
- a desire to be organised, methodical and tidy
- be physical fit and able to bend and lift
- good attention to detail
- a genuine willingness and enjoyment for learning.
We are looking for someone able to work up to 37.5 hours a week, including weekends/bank holidays.
- Salary from £12.21ph
- Company pension
- On-site parking
- Employee discount on food and drink
- Free coffee allocation
To apply – please contact jobs@owenscoffee.com
