Brewery Manager at Kiwanda Hospitality Group

The Brewery Manager serves as a critical role for keeping daily, weekly, and monthly operations running to meet a flexible production schedule and a constantly evolving facility. Brewery Operations Manager is also the leader of the Brewery Team and is responsible for leading, recruiting, developing, and retaining the talent necessary for aggressive growth.

Key Accountabilities: will be responsible for tracking the following but not limited to

• Ensure all brewery employees and procedures meet Pelican Brewing Company safety standards.
• Responsible for all aspects of brewing operations, including utilities, raw materials, safety, personnel and training and maintenance.
• Works closely with the Sales and Distribution Manager to coordinate brewing schedule with production and new product development needs.
• Perform brewery audits to ensure consistency and repeatability of brewing.
• Manages/conducts quality checks, process audits to ensure adherence to PBC quality standards.
• Develop reports on brewing execution, quality and exceptions.  Put systems in place to improve process controls.
• Initiates and implements capital projects related to above, and to ongoing needs of PBC.
• Responsible for sanitation of the brew house and cellars to assure compliance.
• Provide timely update on process and formulation, material utilization etc. to PBC finance contact.
• Recruit, hire, supervise and review performance of direct reports and develop staff professionally and technically to meet goals. 
• Providing direction and mentoring to and/or supervising other technical professionals on staff
• Staying current with technical Brewing literature and information about sensory evaluation       
•  This may require occasional night, weekend and overtime shifts as well as response to emergencies that may require action during non-scheduled periods. The work environment characteristics and physical demands described here are representative of those a team member encounters while performing the key accountabilities of the position. The work may be conducted in an office environment; or may require work in a warehouse/production/restaurant/lodging environment.