Now Hiring Accounting Specialist in Edmonds, WA
If you’re a finance person (or know one!) who perks up at words like “reconcile”, “ACH”, “verify”, “update” and “vendor bills” and desires working in a collaborative office environment of caffeinated coffee professionals, you may be a good fit for our Accounting Specialist role. Atlas offers a competitive benefits package and a salary commensurate with […]
NKG PACE Partners Shuffle the Deck
October was perhaps one of the busiest months for all the NKG PACE Partners thus far, as each of us had the opportunity to travel to enhance our QC training. It’s been noted time and time again that the Partners are experiencing different aspects of the quality control world at each of our respective offices, […]
Watch Us Work: Berenice Santos, Customer Service Specialist
You might be wondering who works behind the scenes at an importing firm, and what actually goes into working with roasters around the country alongside international coffee-producing partners. Although we have fostered relationships with and between producers and roasters for over twenty years, just a small team of twenty people work together to move coffee […]
Watch Us Work: Tiffany Carlton, Customer Service Specialist
You might be wondering who works behind the scenes at an importing firm, and what actually goes into working with roasters around the country alongside international coffee-producing partners. Although we have fostered relationships with and between producers and roasters for over twenty years, just a small team of twenty people work together to move coffee […]
A Farewell Note from Craig
It feels really damn weird to say this, but I’m writing to say thank you and goodbye. After more than two decades of leading Atlas Coffee Importers, I’m stepping aside to let my amazing colleagues at Atlas run the show with the support of the Neumann Coffee Group, and under the leadership of the incredible […]
The Who, How, and Why of Cupping Competitions
We Atlasians see a lot of value in bringing our coffee supply chain partners together to honor the work of microlot producers whenever possible. We do this in a variety of ways, including open cuppings here in the Atlas lab, cupping at origin with roasters and exporters, and – whenever possible – holding community microlot […]
Introducing the Atlas EXPO Passport: Play Along and Travel with Us!
To celebrate the number of ways we’re participating in this year’s Specialty Coffee Expo in Boston, we’re offering attendees the chance to follow along and win a trip in the process! As a Grand Prize, Atlas is giving away a trip, either to a coffee producing country along with Atlas staff, or to the Atlas […]
Thoughts on Sample Roasting
Sample Roasting used to be exhausting when I first began. Twenty to thirty samples a day, five barrels at a time, on a vintage Probat B5 with no gauges and often without enough green coffee sample to do re-roasts. The pressure of expensive buying decisions based on the success of my roasts and the knowledge […]
Watch Us Work: Jeff Webre, QC Technician and Sample Choreographer
You might be wondering who works behind the scenes at an importing firm, and what actually goes in to working with international partners– from large mills to small-holder producers– to select coffees for purchase and bring them into our US warehouses. Although we have fostered relationships with and between producers and roasters for over twenty years, […]