Lead Nut Roaster – Master Level

About the role

The Lead Nut Roaster is responsible for overseeing the roasting of nuts, seeds, and related snack products using both automated continuous systems and traditional drum roasters. This senior position ensures optimal roasting profiles, product quality, and continuous process improvement.

Key responsibilities

• Operate and technically supervise automated roasting lines, including start‑up, changeover, shutdown and real‑time monitoring.
• Establish, validate and maintain roasting profiles for various raw materials, flavors and product specifications.
• Control critical parameters such as temperature, residence time, belt or drum speed, airflow, loading and cooling.
• Apply sensory judgement to assess colour, aroma, flavour, texture and crunch, making adjustments as needed.
• Diagnose process deviations, collaborate with Production, Quality and Maintenance for root‑cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Develop new products, flavor profiles and process improvements while ensuring batch‑to‑batch consistency.

Required profile

• Proven experience in industrial food roasting or similar processing environments.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and take ownership of production outcomes.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and a keen eye for quality consistency.

Required skills

• Automated roasting system operation
• Manual drum roasting expertise
• Process monitoring and control
• Root‑cause analysis and corrective action implementation