Brewer

About the position

We are currently hiring a Brewer in Milton, DE. Brewers take raw ingredients and brews delicious and amazing beer. Performs all actions necessary to complete successful beer production, including malt handling, Brewhouse operations, cellaring operations (including yeast), and finishing operations including filtration and clarification. Supports all departmental improvement initiatives as pertain to consistency, quality, safety, housekeeping, sanitation, efficiency, recycling, etc. Preserves and supports a safe working environment for co-workers, vendors and guests regardless of shift.

Responsibilities

• Maintains a continuous workflow and high level of departmental safety, quality, efficiency, cleanliness and sanitation, utilizing inter-departmental resources as necessary
• Performs all brewing and cellaring operations, including all equipment operation and tasks necessary to efficiently make the beer within defined specifications
• Performs rigorous sanitation schedules and CIP procedures, both by process and by equipment; as well as general housekeeping
• Performs the full range of responsibilities related to brewing and cellaring operations, including all related tasks and use of equipment in a safe, efficient, SOP-compliant and quality-focused manner
• Reviews SOPs in the spirit of process improvement, to ensure the procedures are applicable to actual conditions on the floor; makes change recommendations to Supervisor
• Learns continuously through various departmental training initiatives; demonstrates training assimilation, may perform process and procedure training to others as requested by supervision in accordance with departmental standards
• Acts as an ambassador of our team, our brewery and our profession regardless of venue
• Makes suggestions to the Supervisor with regard to issues of concern and/or ideas for the betterment of department operations, processes or procedures, etc.
• Participates in Sensory Panel and unbiased analysis for the betterment of the department and the beer
• Fosters positive working relationships and healthy written and spoken communication both within the brewing department and inter-departmentally; fully utilizes the Dashboard and other available communication tools
• Enforces and adheres to all company and departmental recycling requirements
• Utilizes the Small Batch program to fine tune brewing skills supporting occasional R&D projects, special requests and personal interests
• Shares this knowledge with coworkers outside of Brewing
• Completes special assignments, tasks and/or projects as assigned by management team
• Supports open communication and daily workflow coordination with preceding and following shifts to meet team objectives
• Supports departmental initiatives and standards with regard to sanitation and housekeeping
• Maintains strong working knowledge of equipment and systems operations; advises Supervisor of process concerns and performs basic trouble-shooting and basic repair as indicated by management
• Works with Maintenance and fellow coworkers utilizing Root Cause Analysis to understand and correct process deficiencies
• Utilizes any other new technologies as introduced in the department
• Enforces and adheres to all safety regulations as required by the position and department and company safety policies
• Maintains thorough and accurate documentation related to departmental operations, variances, items of concern, etc., troubleshoots those items as appropriate and keeps Supervisor in the loop
• Ensures all quality specification checks are completed on brite beer; and effectively communicates to the packaging team when this product is ready to be handed off to them
• Ensures beer is brewed/processed as scheduled, per SOP and recipe specifications and adheres to quality specs throughout operations to achieve the highest levels of efficiency, consistency and quality for our customers
• Supports Warehouse team delivery of raw ingredients, verifying that the ingredients prepared by the warehouse are indeed correct and follow the recipe/procedure
• Maintains the supply in an orderly fashion on the floor, helps to ensure adjoining shifts are likewise prepared with materials; maximizes resources by minimizing waste

Requirements

• Associates Degree in Science or Brewing Certificate

Benefits

• Generous healthcare on day one
• Stock purchase plan
• 401k
• Tuition reimbursement
• Fertility/adoption support
• Free financial coaching
• Health & wellness program and discounts
• Professional development & training
• Free beer!