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Coffee Roaster resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what coffee roasters actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most coffee roasters should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Coffee roaster with hands-on experience operating Probat and Loring machines to develop consistent flavour profiles across single origins and blends. Skilled in cupping, roast profile adjustment and food safety compliance, with a focus on repeatable quality for cafes and wholesale customers.
Key skills
- Roast profile development
- Cupping and sensory analysis
- Green bean selection and blending
- Operations management
- Food safety and hygiene (HACCP)
- Plant and equipment operation
- Process improvement
- Inventory management
- Packing and dispatch
- Cropster
- Artisan
- Probat roasting equipment
- Loring roaster
- Ikawa sample roaster
- Attention to detail
- Customer service
Experience: example bullet points
- Operated a 15 kg Probat roaster across daily production, monitoring temperature, airflow and time to keep batch consistency within agreed tolerances.
- Developed and adjusted roast profiles in Cropster for new single origin beans, running cupping sessions to confirm flavour targets before release.
- Managed green bean inventory and blending schedules for a wholesale customer base, reducing stock outages on core blends.
- Packed, labelled and dispatched roasted coffee orders, maintaining batch traceability and meeting same-day dispatch deadlines.
- Trained two junior staff in cupping protocol and roaster start-up checks, improving shift handover accuracy.
Education
Common pathways include a bachelor degree in food science or food technology, a diploma or Certificate III or IV in Food Processing, or equivalent industry training, combined with hands-on roasting experience and a Food Safety Supervisor certificate.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- Coffee roaster
- Roasting machine operator
- Food Standards Australia New Zealand
- FSANZ
- HACCP
- WHS
- Food Safety Supervisor
- Certificate III in Food Processing
- Cupping
- Roast profile
- Green bean grading
- Cropster
- Artisan
- Probat
- Loring
- Ikawa
- Inventory management
- Quality assurance
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.