We're Hiring: Assistant Brewer
We’re hiring! We’re looking for a full time Assistant Brewer in our beach side brewery. The ideal candidate will have formal brewing experience, relevant work within a production brewery, and outstanding communication and problem solving skills in addition to a keen eye for detail and working well with others. We're now in our 15th year, continued expansion, and this year is looking like another exciting one.
Chief duties include:
-Assisting in all aspects of brewing, from staging grain, setting up hoses and valves, mash-in, rake-out, break down, and clean up.
- Wort production.
-Raw material management.
-CIP of fermenters, brewhouse, and brite tanks.
-Filtering with plate and frame 40 x 40.
-Labelling, bottling, kegging, canning, and assisting with all other packaging.
-Maintaining clean and orderly work environment.
Additional duties include:
-Maintaining jockey boxes and taps for outside use.
-Cleaning in house draft lines.
-Keg cleaning.
-Maintaining keg fleet.
-Preventative maintenance and upkeep up tanks, pumps, compressors, and other machinery.
-Participate in critical assessment of beers, and aiding in developing recipes for occasional or seasonal beers.
The Assistant brewer will put a premium on working safely, have knowledge of safe handling practices for all brewing chemicals. The nature of the work is manual involving lifting of 5 and 15.5-gallon kegs (165 lbs.) and requires safe operational knowledge of both fork lift and pallet jack.
Important Skills and Abilities:
-Formal brewing experience
-Positive outlook and attitude.
-Ability to work unsupervised while maintaining safety and quality standards.
-Strong mechanical aptitude.
-Ability to multitask.
-Ability to work with other departments and work in a diverse team environment.
-Work occasional offshifts, weekends, and holidays.
Qualified Candidates will possess the following:
-Enjoy physically demanding work environment.
-Self motivation.
-Outgoing personality.
-Hard working mentality.
-Strict attention to detail.
-Strong knowledge of the brewing process.
-Ability to understand and follow SOPs.
-Working to high quality standards without direct supervision.
-Ability to lift 55 lbs to shoulder height repeatedly.
-Ability to maneuver beer kegs (165 lbs).
Benefits include:
-Hourly compensation.
-Paid holidays/vacation.
-Monthly beer stipend.
-Employee discounts on beer and merchandise.
Please send all resumes to Laurie@islandbrewingcompany.com
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