Assistant Brewer/ Production Brewer

Recruiting for all levels of brewing experience. Title and compensation will be determined through our internal leveling assessment.

About the Role

The Brewing team reflects Athletic Brewing’s commitment to quality through meticulous brewing processes, strict sanitation standards, and continuous product verification to ensure every beer meets the highest standards. The position also allows for significant innovation, as team members contribute to a pioneering and rapidly growing segment of the craft beverage industry focused on award-winning non-alcoholic beer.

To be a member of this team is to be collaborative, creative, self-motivated, and detail-oriented to ensure our beer is always the best. This is a hands-on, process-driven role where you will execute world-class brewing procedures, uphold the highest sanitation standards, and perform continuous product verification. Brewing team members are major contributors to an innovative and rapidly growing segment of the craft beverage industry.

This role is deeply connected to the broader Athletic community — from the teammates you collaborate with on the floor to the fans who trust what's in every can.

Responsibilities

• Learn the brewing process by starting in the cellar and mastering basic sanitary practices, including:
  • Cleaning floors, drains, tank faces, and sanitizing brewing parts.
• Participate in all aspects of wort production to assist the brewing team, including:
  • Receiving/storing ingredients, milling, weighing, mashing, boiling, transfer, inoculation, aeration.
  • Monitoring and recording processes in written and digital formats.
• Assist the brewing team with all cellar activities, including:
  • Monitoring and recording, CIP’s and SIP’s, yeast handling, filtration, cleaning, transfers.
• Professional and meticulous use of all chemicals in the brewery.
• Assist in quality assurance by performing DO measurements, CIP verification, pH, and gravity readings.
• Attend GEMBA/GMP/Safety walks and implement corrective actions from findings.
• Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Brewing degree preferred but not required.
• Experience in cellaring and brewing production is valued.
• Previous food production experience is valued.
• Experience with tools is valued.
• Experience with sanitation and cleaning systems is valued.

Desired Traits

• Personal curiosity in improving skills.
• Strong time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, listening, critical thinking, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Honest, dependable, high integrity, team player, and passionate.

Pay

• Assistant Brewer: starting at $25/hour
• Production Brewer: starting at $27.50/hour

Benefits

• Company-paid health, vision, dental, and life insurance.
• 401k with 5% company match.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• Community Program: In addition to Paid Time Off, all team members receive one paid day per month to dedicate to volunteering activities.
• Internal mobility and team equity valued.

Schedule & Location

• Milford, CT
• San Diego, CA

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here represent those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Regularly required to stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl.
• Frequent use of hands to handle, feel, and operate equipment and tools.
• Regularly lift, move, and/or carry up to 50 pounds without assistance; occasional lifts up to 85 pounds may be required.
• Ability to work on feet for extended periods, often for the duration of a shift.
• Work in a production environment with varying temperatures, noise levels, and exposure to wet or slippery surfaces.
• May be required to climb ladders, work at heights, and navigate tight or confined spaces.
• Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Ability to wear and use required personal protective equipment (PPE) as determined by the hazard assessment, including eye and face protection, protective footwear, hearing protection, and hand protection, for the duration of the shift, as applicable.
• Ability to recognize and respond to instructions and alert signals in the work environment.