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Our purpose at Hidden Springs Ale Works is to craft imaginative products that are nostalgic and fun and bring the community together to experience beer in a way it’s best enjoyed – with friends and family.
We are a family owned and operated brewery located on historical Franklin Street in Tampa Heights. Whether you’re in our tasting room, on the water, or sitting around the fire, our beer will remind you to have fun.
We are looking for a full-time Brewery Production Team Member to join us. You’ll work with our production team to produce wort, cellar and package all products.
ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Understand brewing and cellaring processes, along with Clean-In-Place (CIP), sanitation and sterilization techniques.
- Produce quality wort according to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) by hitting target gravities, IBUs, colors, and volumes, as well as other metrics.
- Perform daily job duties, including, but not limited to CIP, milling, operating brew house, wort transfer, yeast pitching, fermentation monitoring, general cleaning and beer tasting.
- Accurately follow SOPs and understand specific beer process terminologies.
- Monitor individual batches and fermentation of individual tanks of beer, record batch performance, and raw material quality and performance.
- Communicate all pertinent batch related information.
- Follow all safety procedures and adhere to all company policies and procedures, including the safe operation of equipment and helping to maintain a safe, clean work environment that includes general housekeeping and warehouse duties.
- Comfortably work with chemicals of varying composition and maintain adherence to safety standards at all times during routine cleaning of brewing equipment.
- Effectively communicate in a cross-function, cross-departmental team environment,
- Develop and review quality reports/statistics to ensure consistent, quality finished goods.
- Represent Company at various events, festivals and promotions. Promote good public relations and handle complaints and concerns.
- Submit purchase requests as necessary.
- Use EKOS, Google Docs, Production Checklist, and other tools to log batch data, organize and plan production.
- Operate forklifts and other operating equipment, as trained and directed.
- Ensure compliance standards are consistently met or exceeded.
- Keep abreast of policies and procedures and current developments in local, state, and federal laws applicable to the service of alcohol, safe food handling, and health standards, etc.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Brewing Operations
- Assist with monitoring quality and temperature of fermenting beers on a daily basis.
- Unload and organize grain shipments.
- Brew Day assistance, CIP, and clean-up.
- Train in wort production and brewing procedures.
- Assist with the transfer of beer from fermenters, as soon as ready, to other vessels.
- Assist with monitoring quality, flavor and carbonation of serving beers in the Tasting Room(s), Packaging, and throughout the brewing process.
- Utilize brewery personnel, lab, and beer tasting panels to check for quality, off flavors, cell counts, O2 levels, etc. Keep an improvement log on all issues as they develop.
- Work with Production Team Members and lab to monitor and propagate yeast as needed.
- Assist with the packaging of all beer whenever it is ready.
- Assist with racking beer from fermenters to any other vessels and related paperwork.
- Assist with labeling all packaged beer in accordance with federal and state law using appropriate keg collars, dates, batch codes, etc.
- Assist with monitoring carbonation levels in tanks and test for volumes of Co2.
- Assist with general routine cleaning of kegs, brewhouse, tanks, walls, floors, drains, fermenters, kettle, HLT, mash tun, keg washer, etc. per Company procedures.
- Be responsible for maintaining all required paperwork and records including, but not limited to brew logs, inventory sheets, packaging records, recipe sheets, etc.
- Keep abreast of orders, inventory, and availability.
- Monitor and maintain inventory of brewing and safety supplies for daily operations.
- You may be requested to perform additional duties as required by the Company at their discretion.
Cellar Work
- Work under the guidance of the Production Manager to prepare tanks for production, transfer, and packaging in accordance to schedule.
- Utilize Ekos and the Production Checklist and update on a daily basis, track brew logs, manage inventory, submit purchase requests, etc.
- Clean tanks utilizing the CIP process.
- Transfer and carbonate beer.
- Process beers in accordance with the brew schedule.
- Perform daily gravity checks on all fermenting beer.
- Harvest yeast and follow proper yeast storage protocols.
- Crash and dry hop beers. as needed.
- Package beer as directed by the Production Manager.
- Adhere to all Company Quality Assurance standard practices and protocols.
Cold Storage Organization
- Make recommendations to the Facilities Manager for maintenance, repair and upkeep of the facility and all equipment.
- Replenish Tasting Room and local rack, reorganize and consolidate kegs, as needed.
- Organize distribution shipments in accordance with weekly pick-up and delivery schedules.
- Assist in bottle and canning runs.
General Maintenance and Cleaning
- Troubleshoot and report all equipment problems, violations or substandard practices to the Facilities Manager immediately.
- Restock raw materials and products as needed.
- General brewery cleanliness and upkeep
- Monitor overall cleanliness of vessels, including brew deck, heat exchangers, and packaging machinery.
- Monitor valves, hardware, and gaskets on all vessels, flag if damaged.
- Change valve gaskets, tighten screws, etc. as needed.
- Perform weekly, monthly, and quarterly maintenance in accordance with the maintenance checklist.
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