Range Brewing release multiple beers each week and are one of the country's leading proponents when it comes to experimenting with new ingredients and brewing processes.
If you'd like to join the team brewing those beers, they're hiring a brewer for their Newstead HQ.
Job Description: Role description - Packaging Technician/Brewer
The Packaging Technician/Brewer is responsible for performing a variety of fundamental and supportive tasks within our Newstead brewery, including canning, kegging, wort production, cellar work, and general housekeeping operations, with assistance in maintenance duties and other departments as needed.
The packaging technician/brewer reports directly to the brewery team manager and the head brewer. To do well in the role, they must have a combination of people skills, technical knowledge, an eye for detail and great organisational skills.
The brewer responsibilities at Range Brewing will involve:
- Performs beer production operations, including cellar and laboratory processes, vessel CIP, wort production, and other beer production tasks
- Working in the brewery cellar, ensuring correct centrifugation is performed to hit both sensory and quality targets and to ensure the product is ready for packaging.
- Leads packaging operations, including can, keg, and bottle filling; labelling; palletizing; wrapping; and warehousing
- Ensure that all vessels, equipment and facilities are kept clean and hygienic
- Quality control management through engagement with quality assurance activities and projects; works along with quality control to ensure products meet quality assurance specifications and standards
- Manage the operation of the packaging process and equipment
- Assists in and performs essential warehousing functions, including accepting and fulfilling shipments, and inventory materials
- Brewery maintenance including equipment maintenance, troubleshooting problems that arise and repair as needed
- Use proper CIP procedures to clean and sanitise brewing equipment; maintain a clean and organised brewery workspace
- Maintaining the use of Standard Operating Procedures to ensure all aspects of beer production and packaging align with safety, sanitary and quality protocols while allowing for process improvement and workflow efficiency
- Carry out Research and Development book keeping as required
- Regular communications to appropriate personnel regarding production schedules, new releases, etc.
- Perform other duties as assigned
This role requires:
- Minimum of two years experience brewing and operating a canning line.
- Experience in running a centrifuge and counter pressure line.
- Understanding of how different styles react when packaging.
- Ability to work independently as well as autonomously assisting the key member of the brewery team
- The maintenance of high standards
- Ability to motivate staff
- An inquisitive mind and a preference for prevention rather than cure
- Physical capabilities required for the role include but are not limited to the ability to work in wet and/or humid conditions; extreme heat; ability to frequently lift and/or move 30kgs ; ability to frequently sit, stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl and climb
- A good understanding of the wider business environment (sales, marketing and customers)
- The flexibility to assist particular teams with high-priority tasks as needed
- Fluent written and spoken English; the ability to write articulately and succinctly
The person will be:
- Careful and diligent – with a good dose of common sense
- Demanding of high standards and at ease with demanding people
- Efficient, effective and organised, in both the physical and digital worlds
- Modestly confident and also personable, good-humoured and trustworthy
- At home in the worlds of beer and design
- Mindful of the limited resources of our planet
- Informal but 100% professional
To apply, please send your application to info@rangebrewing.com.
