Brewer

**About Bench Brewing**:
Bench Brewing is an experiential craft brewery located in the world-renowned wine region of Niagara, Ontario. Surrounded by Ontario’s finest agricultural land, our location provides the ideal setting for crafting great, approachable beers that reflect our local terroir.

The Bench Brewing campus sits across eight beautiful acres and features a 50hL brewing system, a tap and tasting room, a beer garden, a ‘funk house’ for our wild ale and barrel fermentation program, and our very own hops field. Our brewery is a place for our guests to relax, learn, and experience the craft of brewing beer.

**The** Role**:
**Responsibilities and Duties**:

- Brewhouse Operations_
- Producing quality beer efficiently, accurately, and safely according to recipe, brew log specifications, & SOP on any shift in a 24-hour schedule
- Operating, maintaining, and cleaning all process equipment.
- Brewer is responsible to understand and follow the documented SOPs
- Cellar Operations_
- Fermenter & Brite tank CIP
- Reporting tank analytics for gravity, pH, temperature, pressure, flavour development
- Operating glycol controls
- Capping, chilling, dry-hopping, rousing tanks
- Yeast harvesting
- Racking into & out of barrels/foeders
- Adding fruit and/or spices to vessels
- Blending beer
- Hitting process and fermentation specifications
- Packaging Operations_
- Transferring & carbonating finished beer
- Checking pH, gravity, dissolved oxygen, CO2
- Assist in operating canning & bottling line
- Keg cleaning & filling
- Hitting packaging specifications
- Waste Management & Cleaning_
- Lowering wastewater-to-beer ratio by continually developing best practices: with the goal of reaching 4:1 waste water to finished beer ratio.
- Sidestreaming all hops, yeast, trub, grains into totes for alternative disposal methods
- not to be put down drains
- Ensuring brewery is cleaned & maintained to consumer facing standards
- Safety_
- Responsible for following WHMIS safety protocol
- Utilize a 5S approach to organizing and maintaining a clean and efficient workspace
- Be aware and vigilant at all times when using machinery, equipment, and/or chemicals that could harm yourself or others.
- General Operations_
- Forklift, pallet jack, and scissor lift operation.
- Maintain malt, hop and yeast ingredients in best conditions.
- Maintain all equipment to best conditions
- A formal brewing education from a credited brewing program
- College Degree in a related technical field (Science or Engineering) preferred
- Experience in a Commercial and Craft Production Brewery is considered an asset
- Advanced knowledge of beer offerings (flavors, ingredients, etc.)
- Demonstrated passion for and interest in beer and brewing
- Strong technical knowledge of all aspects of the brewing process
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Team player and a quality leader
- The drive to win as a team - collaborating to achieve success is what we do here at Bench
- A willingness to lift the occasional keg or case of beer

If you have the entrepreneurial spirit and are motivated to work in a fast-paced, fun environment with like-minded people who love what they do, we want to hear from you

**Job Types**: Part-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company events
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Discounted or free food
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Store discount
- Vision care

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift

Application question(s):

- What are your compensation expectations?

**Education**:

- AEC / DEP or Skilled Trade Certificate (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Commercial Brewing: 2 years (preferred)