Production Assistant Job at NOSSA FAMILIA COFFEE in Portland

Description:

Position: Production Assistant

Classification: Hourly, Non-Exempt

Expected Weekly Hours: 27-35

Wage: $17.19/hour starting

Nossa Familia Coffee is looking for people to join our team!

About Us

Located in Portland, Oregon, we operate in an area rich with coffee roasters. So, what makes us different?

• We are very proud to be Oregon's first Certified B Corporation coffee roaster. We take our commitment to sustainability, social responsibility, and environmental stewardship seriously.
• We are truly farm-direct. Ask us about it!
• We hire people who believe in and want to work with us to further our purpose: to deliver delicious farm-direct coffee and create positive relationships locally and globally.
• Our standout team is essential in our goals to create a great coffee company that helps make the world a better place.

Nossa Familia Coffee is an equal opportunity employer who celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees to learn and grow. We seek a diverse team and place high value on positive, hard-working individuals who may not fit the coffee stereotype. If you think you won't fit in, we challenge you to reconsider; if you lack any of the listed experience below, but you have life experience that you believe substitutes, we urge you to apply and highlight that. There are many ways to achieve experience and become adept in all items listed below—please call out your varied life experiences and apply those to the requirements listed below.

About You

You are a motivated, self-directed team player who is passionate about coffee, community, and a positive work environment. The words “sustainability” and “zero-waste,” our Purpose, and our Core Values all speak to you, and you’re excited to promote these efforts and work for a company with these values.

Essential Functions:

• Weigh, process and package roasted coffee.
• Brew, bottle, and package RTD product.
• Produce waffle batter product, working with cheese, milk, oil, and flour.
• Maintain a safe, sanitary and organized workspace.
• Accurately interpret, build and package product for distribution.
• Be on task, on time, follow direction, and be held accountable.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Competency with Google Suite and Microsoft Suite

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job.

Benefits:

• Employees working 25+ hours/week are eligible for 60% covered health insurance, pre-tax dental, supplemental insurance, and paid parental leave.
• All non-seasonal, non-temporary employees are eligible for Simple IRA retirement.
• Employees who work 25 hours/week or more are eligible for long-term disability benefits.
• All employees are eligible for PTO, paid holidays, paid volunteer hours, and free coffee.

Work Environment:

Warehouse: While performing production duties, you may be subject to loud noises, strong aromatics and a fine coating of ground coffee. Warehouse employees are subject to seasonal weather fluctuations -- you will be hot in the summer, cold in the winter.

Physical Demands:

Warehouse: While performing production duties, the employee is required to stand for long periods of time, and the ability to label, fold, roll, manipulate and lift barrels and bags of roasted coffee is required. While performing their duties, production and delivery employees may be required to lift up to 50lbs of coffee in barrels or boxes by themselves.

How to Apply:

If the above description is in line with your personality and skills and you would like to be part of our dynamic and growing company, we’d love to hear from you! Please submit a cover letter and resume through the link in this job posting.

Requirements:

Please see job description