Quality & Production Manager job at Comcof Group

Role mission

Protect Comcof's reputation by establishing disciplined quality, traceability, production, and process-control systems across its coffee operations.

About Comcof Group

Comcof Group is a coffee company focused on building long-term capabilities across sourcing, trade, market access, finance coordination, quality, processing, and value addition. We are early-stage by design and disciplined by conviction: we believe respected coffee companies are built through reliable systems, consistent quality, and professional execution. Learn more about the company.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and manage quality-control and quality-assurance procedures.
• Coordinate coffee sampling, inspection, grading, testing, and release processes.
• Monitor supplier and incoming-product quality.
• Maintain quality records, traceability information, and product documentation.
• Coordinate warehouse and production quality requirements.
• Support production planning and process-control activities.
• Monitor losses, defects, inconsistencies, contamination risks, and process deviations.
• Coordinate with laboratories, warehouses, processors, suppliers, exporters, and buyers.
• Support compliance with customer specifications, export requirements, food-safety standards, and applicable regulations.
• Prepare quality and production reports.
• Investigate complaints and quality incidents.
• Recommend corrective and preventive actions.
• Train operational teams on quality procedures.
• Support continuous improvement across sourcing, storage, processing, and delivery.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in Food Science, Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering, Industrial Chemistry, Quality Management, Production Management, Agribusiness, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of relevant quality, production, processing, food, agricultural, warehouse, laboratory, or manufacturing experience.
• Strong documentation and reporting ability.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to work across office, warehouse, production, and field environments.
• High integrity and professional discipline.

Preferred experience

• Coffee quality, coffee processing, cupping, grading, export standards, warehouse management, food safety, traceability, or commodity quality systems.
• Relevant training from coffee-sector or quality-assurance institutions is advantageous.

Skills and attributes

• Methodical, detail-oriented, and disciplined.
• Objective and patient, with strong powers of observation.
• Comfortable enforcing standards consistently.
• Able to investigate causes rather than assigning blame.

What success looks like

• Quality requirements are documented and followed.
• Product issues are identified before delivery.
• Traceability and quality records remain reliable.
• Production and warehouse processes become more consistent.
• Customer specifications are understood and met.
• Quality complaints reduce.
• Corrective actions are documented and completed.

What you will gain

You will define what quality means at Comcof: the standards, records, and habits that every future lot, warehouse, and production line will be measured against, with the authority to enforce them.

• Develop and manage quality-control and quality-assurance procedures.
• Coordinate coffee sampling, inspection, grading, testing, and release processes.
• Monitor supplier and incoming-product quality.
• Maintain quality records, traceability information, and product documentation.
• Coordinate warehouse and production quality requirements.
• Support production planning and process-control activities.
• Monitor losses, defects, inconsistencies, contamination risks, and process deviations.
• Coordinate with laboratories, warehouses, processors, suppliers, exporters, and buyers.
• Support compliance with customer specifications, export requirements, food-safety standards, and applicable regulations.
• Prepare quality and production reports.
• Investigate complaints and quality incidents.
• Recommend corrective and preventive actions.
• Train operational teams on quality procedures.
• Support continuous improvement across sourcing, storage, processing, and delivery.

• Methodical, detail-oriented, and disciplined.
• Objective and patient, with strong powers of observation.
• Comfortable enforcing standards consistently.
• Able to investigate causes rather than assigning blame.
• Strong documentation and reporting ability.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to work across office, warehouse, production, and field environments.
• High integrity and professional discipline.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in Food Science, Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering, Industrial Chemistry, Quality Management, Production Management, Agribusiness, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of relevant quality, production, processing, food, agricultural, warehouse, laboratory, or manufacturing experience.
• Coffee quality, coffee processing, cupping, grading, export standards, warehouse management, food safety, traceability, or commodity quality systems.
• Relevant training from coffee-sector or quality-assurance institutions is advantageous.