Company: Toffee Coffee Roasters (TCR)

Location: Bengaluru | Work from Office

Experience: 5–10 Years

Employment Type: Full time

About Toffee Coffee Roasters

Toffee Coffee Roasters is one of India's fast-growing specialty coffee brands, on a mission to make great coffee an everyday experience.

With a strong presence across D2C, quick commerce, marketplaces, B2B, and an expanding network of grab-and-go coffee outlets, we're scaling our roasting operations while maintaining exceptional quality and consistency.

We're looking for an experienced Head Coffee Roaster who can lead our roasting operations, develop distinctive coffee profiles, maintain world-class quality standards, and build a scalable roasting function.

Key Responsibilities

1. Coffee Roasting & Profile Development

- Lead end-to-end roasting operations across single origins, specialty blends, microlots, and experimental coffees.
- Develop, refine, and standardize roast profiles for different coffees and brewing applications.
- Operate and optimize commercial roasting equipment, including Probat roasters.
- Use Cropster or similar roasting software to monitor roast curves, consistency, and batch performance.
- Maintain consistency in flavour, aroma, body, acidity, and overall cup quality.
- Experiment with new roasting techniques and innovative coffee profiles.

2. Production Planning & Operational Excellence

- Oversee daily roasting schedules, batch planning, and production targets.
- Scale roasting output while maintaining consistent quality and operational efficiency.
- Optimize roasting cycles, batch sizes, machine utilization, and production yields.
- Minimize roasting losses, defects, downtime, and operational inefficiencies.
- Coordinate with procurement, inventory, packaging, and dispatch teams.
- Establish SOPs for roasting operations, equipment maintenance, cleaning, and safety.

3. Quality Control & Sensory Evaluation

- Lead regular cupping sessions and sensory evaluations.
- Establish rigorous quality standards for green coffee, roasted beans, and finished products.
- Monitor roast development, moisture loss, colour consistency,



and sensory performance.
- Identify and resolve roasting defects and quality deviations.
- Maintain batch-level traceability and roasting documentation.
- Ensure consistency across different production batches and coffee categories.

4. Green Coffee Sourcing & Product Development

- Collaborate with green coffee suppliers, estates, and producers to evaluate new coffees.
- Conduct sample roasting and green coffee evaluations.
- Work with the product development team to introduce new single origins, blends, microlots, and experimental coffees.
- Develop coffee profiles for espresso, filter brewing, cold brew, and other applications.
- Evaluate green coffee quality, processing methods, seasonal variations, and storage requirements.

5. Team Leadership & Training

- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of coffee roasters and production operators.
- Establish structured training programmes covering roasting fundamentals, sensory evaluation, and quality control.
- Build a high-performance roasting team capable of supporting increasing production volumes.
- Ensure adherence to safety, hygiene, and operational standards.

6. Cost Optimisation & Process Improvement

- Monitor roasting yield, weight loss, production costs, and operational efficiency.
- Improve output per roasting hour without compromising coffee quality.
- Reduce wastage through better roasting practices and process controls.
- Work closely with operations leadership to plan future capacity expansion and equipment requirements.
- Implement data-driven improvements in roasting performance.

What We're Looking For
- 5–10 years of hands-on experience in specialty coffee roasting, including experience managing commercial roasting operations.
- Strong knowledge of roasting science,



heat transfer, roast development, and coffee chemistry.
- Experience operating commercial roasting machines, preferably Probat.
- Proficiency with Cropster, Artisan, or comparable roast profiling software.
- Strong sensory evaluation, cupping, and coffee quality assessment capabilities.
- Experience in developing roast profiles for both espresso and filter coffee.
- Deep understanding of green coffee origins, processing methods, defects, and flavour characteristics.
- Ability to manage production at scale while maintaining consistent quality.
- Solid analytical, problem-solving, and team leadership skills.
- Experience managing roasting SOPs, quality standards, and production planning.

Preferred Qualifications

- Q Grader certification (Q Arabica or equivalent current certification).
- SCA Coffee Roasting or Sensory Skills certifications.
- Experience scaling roasting operations in a growing specialty coffee business.
- Exposure to preventive maintenance, equipment calibration, and multi-shift roasting operations.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Roast consistency and quality scores.
- Daily and monthly roasted coffee output.
- Roast batch rejection and defect rates.
- Roasting yield and production losses.
- Equipment utilization and downtime.
- Production efficiency and cost per kg.
- Recent coffee and roast profile development.
- Team productivity and adherence to SOPs.

Why Join TCR?

This is an opportunity to lead the roasting function at a fast-growing Indian specialty coffee company.

You'll play a critical role in shaping the flavour identity of TCR, scaling production capacity, developing new coffees, and building a world-class roasting operation.

We're looking for someone who combines the craftsmanship of a specialty coffee roaster with the operational mindset of a production leader.

Apply: Share your CV, relevant roasting experience, certifications, and details of the roasting machines you've worked with.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka

Contact: +91-(phone hidden) / [email protected]

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