Brewer/Cellar Operator Paso Robles, CA 93446
Overview: Salary Range $25.00 - $28.00 Hourly
Description:
Firestone Walker Brewing Company began as a small brewery with roots in the wine country on California's Central Coast. Now a regional craft brewery, our singular purpose remains to craft the world's best beers. Passionately in pursuit of the perfect beer and never satisfied. The Brewer/Cellar Operator is responsible for cleaning tanks, transferring beer, quality management, yeast management, and equipment maintenance. The cellar operator is also required to maintain a neat, clean, and sanitary environment throughout the brewery.
Essential Job Duties And Responsibilities:- Set up, maintain and operate centrifugation equipment
- Brew efficiently and effectively on both brewhouses including grain transfer, mashing, lautering, boiling, and cooling of wort while monitoring quality of product and performance of equipment
- Monitor fermentations-check gravities, identify irregularities, record data, dry hopping, cap, and chill tanks
- Manage yeast through yeast harvesting, checking viability, yeast dumps, and burps
- Complete beer transfers: check product for readiness, set up, transfer and cleanup according to SOP. Ensure clean transfers at low D.O. levels in a timely manner
- Run Filtration: Setup and pre-coat, follow SOP to meet quality specifications; ensure proper operation, CIP, and sanitization
- Complete all necessary paperwork accurately and on time
- Complete tank cleaning and tank sanitization
- Use proper safety equipment and personal protection equipment.
- Uphold the quality standards of Firestone Walker inside and outside the Brewery
- Communicate low level inventory of all items used
- Ensure that safety procedures are adhered to throughout the building
- Communicate regularly and efficiently with Brewhouse Manager, Cellar Manager, and Packaging Manager
- Complete all required safety training
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:- Formal Education in Brewing and Fermentation preferred
- Prior professional brewing experience preferred
- Overnight Shifts are mandatory
Other Skills And Abilities:- Basic mathematical skills
- Ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
- Ability to analyze and interpret technical journals pertaining to brewing and quality control
- Read and understand a variety of scientific instruments
Work Environment:- Work in a wet environment with loud noise
- Exposed to acids, caustics, and cleaning products
- Regularly required to stand, walk, and climb stairs
- Grip and manipulate tri-clamps and drag hoses several times a day
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus
- Regularly required to lift 55lb grain bags and 44lb Hop boxes with assistance
- Employee is occasionally required lift and maneuver a keg (165lbs) with assistance
