Coffee Worker

Job description

Coffee worker responsibilities include harvesting coffee cherries and the operation of mechanical wet and dry coffee plant equipment to maximize throughput with the minimum of losses while maximizing green bean quality in conformance with State of Hawaii, USDA, and other standards for coffee grades. Coffee workers will utilize various tools and equipment, including, but not limited to conveyors, washers, ripe/green cherry separators, pulpers, demucilage machines, dryers, scales, silos, de-stoners, moisture meters, forklifts, trucks and trailers (on farm only), hullers, polishers, sizers, density tables, color sorters, baggers, containers, cleaning equipment, computers, and various hand tools. Coffee workers will be responsible for regulating the flow of coffee cherries into the cherry washing, cherry separation, pulping, demucilaging and drying equipment. Workers may also load/unload coffee dryers and monitor dryer operation temperatures, moisture levels, drying times, and ensuring proper identification and tagging of coffee lots.

Workers may also operate conveying, de-stoner, hulling, polishing, sizing, density, and color sorting equipment along with bagging equipment while maintaining strict standards for State of Hawaii coffee grades.

Workers may also assist with entering coffee information into software system via field tablets or computers and loading or unloading product and delivering them to milling and storage services. Workers may also utilize farm equipment while maintaining the State of Hawaii's Kona Hills' safety, and quality standards. Coffee workers will also be maintaining and harvesting coffee cherries. Harvesting coffee cherries requires hand harvesting ripe coffee cherries with a basket carried around the waist. Workers must be able to harvest coffee using both hands.

Workers may inspect assigned fields and do repairs when malfunctioning pipes, fittings, low pressure, plugged tubing, or other problems preventing proper irrigation applications. Workers may do field maintenance work such as removing noxious/invasive weeds in the orchard with use of brush cutters, sickles, hedgers, and various other tools. Coffee workers may be assigned orchard maintenance, building maintenance, equipment maintenance and crop maintenance tasks as assigned by Global Ag Services Inc. Coffee workers will be responsible for any farm duties as assigned by Global Ag Services Inc.

Coffee workers will be given the task procedures and specific training for each task. Coffee workers will continuously strive to do each duty with expertise and produce quality product.

Special Requirements

We require two months of recent and verifiable experience within the past two years of working on a coffee farm. This position requires a minimum of two months for the employee to get a full understanding of the job and responsibilities. Workers must be able to perform manual activities with accuracy and efficiency. Drug testing is conducted at employer's expense: post-hire/prior to employment, upon reasonable suspicion, post-accident and at random or periodically. Must be able to understand work & safety instructions in English or Spanish, the languages spoken and written in the workplace.