Now Hiring: Packaging/Cellarhand
Looking for some hands-on experience in a rapidly-growing craft brewery?
Bale Breaker Brewing Company is seeking a hard-working and passionate individual to join the packaging and cellar team at our 30-barrel production brewery in Yakima, WA. Deadline to apply: October 18, 2017. To apply, please email your resume and cover letter, indicating interest in the Packaging/Cellarhand position, to info@balebreaker.com.
Job Title: Packaging/Cellarhand
Position Type: 20-40 hrs/wk, hourly
Position Summary: Works in beer production department helping to operate and maintain equipment needed to condition and package beer, monitor fermentations, and fill distributor orders
Essential Duties:
- Abides by workplace safety regulations while upholding quality standards
- Operates equipment needed for the following activities: product packaging, product transferring, vessel CIP (clean in place), warehouse organization, and order filling
- Continual lifting, dragging, carrying, and manipulating of hoses, parts, pumps, buckets, and reservoirs, requiring standing, walking, crouching, and lifting regularly throughout the duration of the shift
- Assists in general sanitation of all beer contact surfaces and equipment
- Transfers beer between vessels, assembles and dismantles hard and soft piping pathways
- Prepares beer for packaging, packages beer, organizes and records packaged product
- Performs routine preventative maintenance and cleaning on equipment and infrastructure
- Works with rest of packaging team to fill orders and complete daily duties in a timely fashion
- Assembles orders and delivers beer to local markets approx. 1day/week
Materials/Machines/Equipment Used:
- Industrial cleaning and sanitizing chemicals including strong acids and bases
- Works on the canning line and kegging line
- Pumps, hoses, valves, clamps, gaskets, and other brewery equipment
- Sit-down and standup fork lifts, pallet jacks, hand trucks
- Oversized delivery truck
Important Skills and Abilities:
- Positive outlook and attitude
- Ability to work unsupervised while maintaining quality and safety standards
- Attention to detail and hygiene
- Ability to manage multiple processes simultaneously
- Self-motivated
- Good time management
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Ability to effectively communicate with staff throughout the brewery
- Must have a valid driver’s license
Physical Requirements:
- Ability to frequently sit, stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and climb
- Ability to frequently talk, hear, and smell
- Ability to frequently lift up to 50lbs and drag up to 100 lbs
- Ability to frequently reach with hands and arms. Use hands to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls
- Vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to focus on small moving objects
- Must be able to participate in the critical assessment of beers i.e. must be 21+
Work Environment:
- The work environment is usually that of a brewery
- The employee regularly works with hazardous chemicals
- The employee works on wet floors and with wet equipment
- The employee regularly works around high voltage, hot water, and steam
- The employee frequently must work in a sanitary environment
To apply, please email your resume and cover letter, indicating interest in the Packaging/Cellarhand position, to info@balebreaker.com.
Posted October 11, 2017