Brewer/Cellar Operator

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

Firestone Walker Inc