What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Brewer position at Deschutes Brewery?
At Deschutes Brewery in Bend, Oregon, we unapologetically make award-winning, damn tasty beer. We are determined to innovate, challenge the status quo, and be thought leaders at every turn. Our company culture bonds us together and creates conditions for success. It is lived daily as a behavioral expression of our collective set of core values: Love It or Dump It, One Team One Dream, Blow Our Customers' Minds, Time for Better Is Now, Celebrate, Crafted for Community and Own It! If you are on our team, it means you are part of creating something extraordinary. You're part of Deschutes.
The Brewing Team is hiring for a Lead Brewer! The lead brewer is responsible for providing oversight, coordination and leadership to the shift and department as well as performing the essential brewing tasks required for each of the core areas: Cellar Tanks, Cellar Transfers, Huppmann Brew House and JV Brew House. This position will be required to work day, swing and graveyard shifts.
Job Responsibilities:
- Ensuring appropriate staffing for the duration of assigned shift
- Facilitating smooth shift handoffs
- Ensuring efficient shift operations
- Communication of special operations, SOP changes, process changes and production schedule changes
- Main point of contact between the brewhouses, cellars, maintenance, quality assurance (QA), packaging, shipping and utilities
- Assisting with or leading the training of new brewers
- Ensuring that lunch breaks are taken
- Ensuring appropriate raw materials are available for the current and next shift
- Responsible for ensuring that shift data collection and communication are occurring
- Acts as liaison between brewers and the brewing leadership group
- Assist with personnel scheduling
- Shift coverage for vacations and other absences
- Personnel management and development
Requirements:
- Fully trained in Huppmann, tank and transfer operations.
- High School Diploma or GED
- Must be physically able to perform all related jobs in the work area, including heavy lifting and working from high platforms.
- Ability to lift 55 lb. bags to approximately waist height and tilt up 200-pound hop bales.
