Golden Road Brewing, LA's premier craft brewery, is looking to hire a Lab Assistant to help with the management of quality control initiatives.
Primary Responsibilities:
Qualifications and Experience:
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Primary Responsibilities:
- Take gravities of all fermenting beers and adjusting process timing with coordination of brewers
- Yeast harvesting, analysis and propagation for all house strains
- Sample collection
- Malt and water analysis
- Assist packaging crew with carbonation and seam checks
- Assist brewers with wort analysis
- Assist lab manager with microbiology and spectroscopy
- Assist lab manager with all QA/QC concerns
- Run the lab’s density meter, pH meter and alcolyzer
- Maintain cleanliness of lab, lab equipment and glassware
- Data entry
Qualifications and Experience:
- Interest in learning about the beer and the brewing process
- Attention to detail, tidiness and organization
- Willingness to undertake tasks at hand to full completion
- Ability to work independently and manage one’s time effectively
- Good communication skills
- Basic computer skills: email, Microsoft Excel and Word (SAP is a plus)
- Lab skills: proper lab technique, weighing, organizing, pipetting, titrations, making solutions, ability to follow written lab methods, proper safety, microbiology
- Basic mechanical skills
- General understanding of the brewing process
- Understanding of alcoholic and bacterial fermentations, microbiology
- Bachelor of Science (B.S.) required, preferably related to biology and/or chemistry
To learn more about us, visit www.goldenroad.la
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