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This job expired on October 25, 2014

Director of Production Blue Bottle Coffee

  • Date Posted August 26, 2014
  • Location Oakland, CA
  • Category Production
  • Job Type Full-Time
Job Description Founded in 2002, we are a growing specialty coffee roaster and retailer currently operating in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York City, and Tokyo. We are united by the simple purpose of getting great coffee to everyone who asks for it.

About The Role:

You will be the leader of our roasting and production facilities. You will lead a team passionate about creating transformational experiences for others. Your team will roast the highest quality coffee and prepare it for delivery to our customers on time, every time. You and your team will model our strongly held company values of deliciousness, hospitality, and sustainability. You will directly manage, coach, and lead our roasting and production facility managers. You will partner closely with every department at the company (retail, wholesale, ready-to-drink, digital, quality control, training, finance, purchasing, logistics, and people operations).

In the near term, you will be responsible for setting and meeting aspirational safety, quality, and efficiency goals for each roasting and production facility. In the medium term, you will be responsible for exceeding these goals and raising your aspirations. In the long term, you will be responsible for building a world-class global network of roasting and production facilities that supports and enables the company’s growth and purpose.

About You:

You are a superb manager and developer of people.
You are an architect of high-performance teams.
You show your team what excellence looks like.
You support, train, and challenge them to achieve it.
You praise and reward them for their successes.
You support them and hold them accountable when goals are not met.
You use mistakes as learning moments, but you do not accept that they become routine.
You build a career track for your team and show them how they can grow further.
You advance and reward team members who commit and succeed.
You have a hunger to operate as lean as possible, but have good instincts for when to invest in the future.
You hold the highest standard for integrity.
You always do the right thing.
You are kind and empathetic.
Your communication is direct and clear.
You are adept at managing yourself.
You are exemplary at getting up to speed quickly, prioritizing, delegating, and getting things done.
You are diligent.
You experience joy in your work.
You make hard things easy. You have led one or more high-performing coffee roasting and production facilities. You understand and have adhered to all OSHA, environmental health, safety, and certification requirements in these facilities.
You can be based in the Bay Area (preferred but not required), Los Angeles or New York City.
You are able to work proficiently with technology and remote communication methods.
You are able to travel frequently to work with your team in other markets.

Next Steps:

At Blue Bottle Coffee, you will be working with the kindest, hardest-working team in the business. We are driven by a passion for getting delicious coffee to everyone who asks for it, hospitably and sustainably.



Compensation this position is : salaried How to apply
This job expired on October 25, 2014
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