Job Description: Production Assistant
Who We Are:
Boxcar is a quality-driven food and beverage company based in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. Since 2010, we’ve been committed to excellence—operating an award-winning coffee wholesale program, two vibrant café spaces with extensive bakery and food offerings and a full service equipment repair program. Our mission is to Uplift Lives, and we bring that to life through everyday actions: providing exceptional coffee, food and support while constantly refining the systems that uplift our employees, customers, and partners. At Boxcar, we believe in creating meaningful impact through hospitality, kindness, and excellence—and we’re always growing with that purpose in mind.
Position Overview:
The core duties include order fulfillment, from weighing green coffee batches to final delivery, and maintaining a clean and organized roastery space. Other duties include maintaining roastery equipment, regular QC tastings, and eventually roasting coffee to Boxcar’s high quality standards. A successful production assistant brings a sense of urgency to every task, pays attention to fine details, and sees each day as an opportunity to learn and improve.
Key Responsibilities:- Package and ship coffee orders
- Produce Boxcar's kegged cold brew coffee, wash kegs, and maintain cold brew production space
- Deliver orders to wholesale accounts across the Front Range on a weekly delivery route
- Weigh batches for daily roasting*Roast coffee to Boxcar's strict standards*Maintain coffee roasting machines and other roastery equipment
- Set up and participate in regular cuppings
- Maintain a clean and organized roastery space
- Take on other tasks and duties as assigned
- Roasting begins after the training period and once the employee has demonstrated proficiency in all other key responsibilities
- What we are looking for in you
- Be kind
- Love coffee
- Work with a sense of urgency
- Have an eye for details
- Take ownership of your work
- Be adaptable to the dynamic needs of a busy roastery
- CompensationHourly $23.00 Health insurance options with 75% employer contribution40 hours PTO annually48 hours sick pay annually
- On-job training
- Free drinks at our cafes 50% discount on food at our cafes1 free bag of coffee per week
