Careers · West Mount Coffee · Wayanad, Kerala
We are a working coffee factory in the Western Ghats — a dry mill, a roastery, a cupping lab, a packing line, an export desk and an academy, all on one campus at Kinfra, Chundale. We need people at every one of those benches. Students, freshers, apprentices who simply love coffee, management trainees and experienced hands.
Interviews happen every Saturday. But there is one thing we ask before that — and it is not your CV.
Not yet, anyway. A CV tells us where you have been. It tells us nothing about whether you will still be curious about coffee in year three.
So before anything else, send us a short message on WhatsApp in your own words — your goals, and why you want to work with West Mount or in the coffee industry at all.
Six lines is enough. Type it yourself, in English or Malayalam, from your own head. We are not marking your grammar and we are not impressed by a paragraph a chatbot wrote for you — we read a lot of those and they all sound the same. Honest and plain beats polished and borrowed, every time.
Everyone who writes gets a reply. Those we want to meet get a Saturday slot, and then we will ask for the CV, the marksheets and the certificates.
Answer these six. Tap the button and the questions arrive pre-filled in your chat — just type under each one.
Do not attach a CV with this first message. It will not help you and it will not be read at this stage.
Cannot use WhatsApp? Email the same six answers to sales@westmountcaffe.com with CAREERS in the subject line.
The open interview day
Most coffee companies in India hire when a chair falls empty. We do it the other way round. Every Saturday we keep the interview room open, meet whoever turns up, and place the bright ones into the Ghats to Globe project — sometimes into a role we had not even written down yet.
The Saturday is for people who have already written to us. Bring your photo ID, your CV and your marksheets or certificates to that meeting — not to the first message. We have hired people on the strength of one good answer about why coffee tastes the way it does.
Walk-ins are welcome. A message on the recruitment number in advance means we keep a slot and the right person free to meet you.
Who we hire
You do not need a coffee degree. Nobody in India is born with one. Pick the track that describes you today and we will put you on the bench that suits it.
School, polytechnic, degree, food technology, agriculture, hotel management, design, commerce, MBA — project work, summer internships and part-time weekend roles.
First job out of college or ITI. You learn one bench properly, then a second. Most of our supervisors started here.
You already brew at home, follow roasters, argue about grind size. You may be changing careers entirely. Come and turn the obsession into a craft.
A structured rotation for graduates and post-graduates who want to run a function, not just work in one. You rotate across departments before you are posted.
Operators, technicians, roasters, QC executives, sales and marketing professionals, export and e-commerce hands. Bring the experience; we will give you the equipment and the room to use it.
Open positions
Filter by the track that fits you. Every role below is based at the Kinfra factory campus in Chundale, Wayanad unless the role says otherwise.
Buying cherry and parchment from growers across Wayanad, Coorg and Chikmagalur. Price, moisture, outturn, relationships — and a lot of time on estate roads.
The dry mill and the blending floor. Hulling, grading, destoning, grinding, blending and batch discipline. This is where a tonne of parchment becomes a product.
Green grading, moisture and density, defect counts, roast QC and daily cupping to CVA and SCA protocol. Nothing leaves the factory that has not been tasted.
Profile development, production roasting, logging every batch and defending the cup. The most asked-after bench in the building, and the hardest to earn.
Valves, nitrogen flush, labels, batch codes, best-before dates and the warehouse. The last hands on the coffee before the customer's.
The Ghats to Globe story is told in reels, photographs, packaging, campaigns and the words on this website. If you can make people feel something about a coffee bean, come here.
Cafes, hotels, restaurants, offices, institutions, distributors and dealers across Kerala and beyond. Coffee plus machines plus service — a solution sale, not a price sale.
Our own store, the marketplaces, the WhatsApp desk and the loyalty programme. Digital India, run from a hill town — and it works.
The “Globe” half of the project. Documentation, Coffee Board formalities, freight, and the Dubai arm at West Mount Arabia.
Our academy teaches farmers, baristas and cafe owners. If you can teach as well as you can brew, this is the bench.
The counter where the whole chain is finally judged. Espresso, milk, filter coffee, speed and courtesy.
The quiet functions that keep a factory legal, paid and staffed.
We keep writing new roles because the project keeps growing — tourism and the factory visit programme, farmer training, sustainability and traceability, R&D on new products, retail, and the Dubai operation. If you are good at something we have not thought to advertise, bring it on a Saturday and argue your case.
What you get here
You will not be handed a textbook and a desk. You will be handed a sample tray, a scale and a roast log, on a campus where the whole chain — cherry to cup to container — happens within a hundred metres.
Dry mill, roaster, cupping lab, packing line and espresso bar. You learn on production machines, not demo units.
Our own course library comes with the job. Staff, trainees and apprentices study on it as part of the work.
Everyone who works here learns to taste properly to CVA protocol. It is the one skill that travels with you for life.
Procurement, processing, roasting, QC, packing, selling and exporting. Few coffee jobs in India show you all of it.
West Mount Arabia is the Middle East arm. Strong performers get exposure to the export and Gulf side of the business.
Certificates, letters and a documented record of what you actually did — not a vague internship slip.
Stipend, salary and shift pattern depend on the track, the role and your experience, and are discussed openly at the interview. Ask us directly — we will give you a number, not a speech.
How to apply
Send the six answers on WhatsApp — your goals and why coffee. No CV at this stage.
Put CAREERS in the subject line. The template opens pre-filled.
West Mount Coffee Factory
Kinfra Small Industrial Park,
Silver Hills, Chundale,
Kalpetta, Wayanad, Kerala 673122
West Mount Coffee hires on merit. We welcome applicants of every background, and we do not charge any fee at any stage of recruitment — not for an interview, not for training, not for a placement. If anyone asks you for money in our name, call the number above.
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