Brewer (DFH)

About the role

We are currently hiring a Brewer in Milton, DE. Brewers take raw ingredients and brews delicious and amazing beer. Their responsibilities include malt handling, brewhouse operations, cellaring operations (including yeast), and finishing operations including filtration and clarification. They also support all departmental improvement initiatives as pertain to consistency, quality, safety, housekeeping, sanitation, efficiency, recycling, etc.

Responsibilities

• Maintains a continuous workflow in a 24-hour operation 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
• Operates equipment, analyzes data through trending software and accessing data archives
• 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
• Trains and participates in Sensory Panel and performs unbiased analysis for the betterment of the department and the beer
• Works with Maintenance and fellow coworkers utilizing Root Cause Analysis to understand and correct process deficiencies
• 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

Requirements

• Minimum Qualifications: Associate degree in science or Brewing Certificate
• Basic Microsoft Office skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Brewmaxx, or other fully automated brewing software platform
• Level: 7

Pay

The pay rate for this role if hired is $21 - $24.70 per hour. However, it’s important to note that where the person hired starts in this range is dependent on their related experience, skillset and location.

Benefits

• Tuition reimbursement
• Fertility/adoption support
• Free financial coaching
• Health & wellness program and discounts
• Professional development & training
• Free beer!

Qualifications

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Fair Chance Ordinance and the CA Fair Chance Act.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Boston Beer Corporation is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workforce.