Coffee Educator

Atomic Coffee Roasters•Peabody, MA

9d•$55,000 - $60,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Atomic Coffee Roasters is a second-generation specialty coffee roaster in Peabody, Massachusetts. We roast for a growing wholesale network of cafes and restaurants, as well as for a national direct-to-consumer and subscription business. We also run a public coffee class program out of our roastery — brewing, espresso, latte art, and sensory classes that sell out most weekends. This is a coffee trainer and barista educator role for someone who has been running bar or managing a cafe and wants to take it a step further — teaching at a roastery, in front of a new room every weekend, across a much wider range of equipment and questions than any single cafe will ever throw at you. The majority of the week is public classes on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Mid-week is wholesale training — at the roastery and on-site at accounts — plus event support alongside our Event Coordinator and the prep work that keeps the class program running. Weekend availability is a hard requirement. It is the core of the job, not an occasional ask.

Requirements

Weekend availability. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday are the core of the schedule.
Hands-on barista or coffee experience. You have worked behind a bar, and you know your way around espresso and brewing. We will happily deepen someone's specialty knowledge — but this seat needs a real coffee foundation to build on.
Comfort across a range of brewing and espresso equipment. Our classes cover considerably more of it than any single cafe does.
Teaching or training experience, formal or informal — cafe training, barista onboarding, workshops, classes, or anything where you were the one explaining it.
Organization and time management. You run your own calendar, and things do not fall off it.
Strong communication and real adaptability. Every class is in a different room.
Genuine curiosity about coffee beyond what you already know. In a class, people treat you like the coffee expert of the world — the more you have gone looking, the better they are served.

Nice To Haves

Sensory and cupping skills
latte art
equipment maintenance and troubleshooting
public speaking experience
bartending or broader food-and-beverage background

Responsibilities

Teach public classes on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday — own the room from setup through reset. Every class is a different mix of people, from someone who has never used a scale to someone asking about pressure profiling.
Teach wholesale training for the cafes and restaurants that serve our coffee, at the roastery and on-site at accounts. Teach what a team actually needs for day-to-day service and know what to leave out — the goal is a bar that runs well on Monday morning, not a survey of everything you know.
Teach private and corporate classes booked through our Event Coordinator — team outings, groups, and company events.
Manage your own training bookings. The public class schedule is set in advance and anchors your week. Around it, our wholesale team books training directly with you — you keep your availability up to date, confirm what comes in, and make sure nothing conflicts.
Support in-person events alongside the Event Coordinator — festivals, pop-ups, catering, and brand events across Greater Boston.
Run class prep and execution — training room setup and reset, materials and booklets, equipment, sensory kits, smallwares, and piloting new classes before they go live.
Debrief every class. A short structured write-up after each one, rolling into a monthly class review with your manager. You are our eyes and ears on what is landing, what people keep asking for, and who is coming back.
Reach out to wholesale accounts to proactively book training, using a list the wholesale team maintains.
Keep class communications moving — reschedules, questions, and roster changes for the classes you are teaching.