Description
Job Summary:
This position focuses on ensuring the quality of green coffee, from its receipt through storage and transportation, via physical and sensory analysis, and inventory management.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Ensure green coffee quality through analysis and monitoring
2. Inventory management and compliance with storage standards
3. Multicultural and challenging environment with professional development
**Company Description**
Louis Dreyfus Company is a global leader in the trading and processing of agricultural commodities. Our activities span the entire value chain—from farm to fork—across a broad range of business lines. Leveraging our global reach and extensive asset network, we serve customers and consumers worldwide. Structured as a matrix organization comprising six geographic regions and ten platforms, Louis Dreyfus Company operates in over 100 countries and employs approximately 18,000 people globally.
**Job Description**
* Ensure green coffee quality by enforcing the company’s quality policy, ensuring proper sampling, homogenization, and physical and sensory analysis of the product upon both intake and dispatch.
* Maintain an orderly and clean laboratory and ensure proper functioning of equipment to guarantee accurate coffee analysis results.
* Ensure compliance with good storage practices and inventory rotation (FIFO); perform sensory classification of inventory in warehouse.
* Verify that transport vehicles meet appropriate conditions to safeguard cargo quality during transit.
* Ensure execution of coffee assignments issued by the Quality Department. Monitor green coffee quality during storage via physical and sensory analysis, and reclassify quality as required.
* Trigger necessary alerts to relevant departments when risks threatening inventory quality are detected.
* Contribute to supplier evaluations.
* Preparation of periodic reports:
* Daily/Weekly: Green coffee quality report upon intake into inventory – Divergence report.
* Upload green coffee quality data to the system.
* Monthly: Warehouse performance presentation.
**Additional Information**
* *Technologist or university graduate.*
* *Minimum 2 years of proven experience in physical and sensory quality analysis of green coffee, applying the Colombian protocol for determining and analyzing the yield factor; experience with hulling machines and quality analysis of export-grade coffees.*
* *Desirable experience in coffee exporting companies and corporate environments; proficiency in office software.*
**What We Offer**
A multicultural, dynamic, and challenging environment that will broaden and develop your capabilities and channel your skills and experience with excellent professional development opportunities at one of the world’s most robust companies.
These are some of our benefits:
* Competitive salary and benefits.
* Flexible work environment.
* Access to training and development programs.
* Health and wellness program.
* Extended maternity and paternity leave.
**Diversity \& Inclusion**
LDC is guided by a set of shared values, high ethical standards, and diversity and inclusion are integral to our DNA. LDC is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a workplace that embraces and values diversity, equity, and inclusion.
LDC promotes diversity, supports local communities, and environmental initiatives. We encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.
**Sustainability**
The principle of sustainability lies at the core of our corporate purpose.
We are passionate about creating fair and sustainable value—for our company and for all stakeholders across the value chain: our people, our business partners, the communities we engage with, and the environment around us.