Brewery Operator-Iowa

Overview

Join the Big Grove Iowa City production team as a Brewery Operator and help produce the exceptional beer we’re known for. This role supports the full brewing process—from raw materials through fermentation to cellar work—while maintaining our gold medal standards for quality, safety, cleanliness, and consistency. If you’re passionate about craft beer, thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment, and take pride in doing things the right way every time, we’d love to meet you.

• Set the Tone
• Thirst for Improvement
• We Care
• Practice Candor
• Passion Driven

You will be given a culture deck explaining these core values. The goal of our culture deck is to show you who we are as a company, and then you can decide if you personally align with us and are excited to begin a career here.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to perform and troubleshoot all functions of the brewery and cellar per standard operating procedures.
• Responsible for maintaining and operating the brewhouse. Operation involves using automation in the millroom, mashing in, mash transfers, lauters, boils, wort transfers, and sending wort to fer mentors, dumping cones, pitching yeast (cone to cone and from the yeast propagator), CIP of brewhouse vessels and equipment. Preventative maintenance such as oil checks, pump seal replacements, and general cleaning.
• Responsible for maintaining and operating equipment in the cellar, including pumps (centrifugal and diaphragm), the Max Lupp (for hop recirculation), CIP Skid for sending caustic and water around the facility, the Alfa Laval Brew
  350 centrifuge, carbonation skid, and hop elevator connected to the catwalk.
• Responsible for Cleaning In Place and maintenance of fermentation vessels, yeast propagator, Max Lupp, and Cleaning in Place of brite tanks under pressure and at ambient pressure. Also responsible for cleaning exteriors of tanks, scrubbing floors, sweeping, and general cleaning of the production floor.
• Responsible for accurate data recording on brewlogs, cellar logs, and centrifuge logs. This includes taking pH readings, wort gravities, RLU scores, lot numbers, tank volumes, etc.
• Ensure a safe work environment through safe work habits, understanding of risks, compliance with regulations, and following corrective action plans for any identified safety hazards and risks as directed by brewery management.
• Communicates any known mechanical, raw material, and/or beer quality issues to brewery management immediately.
• Report, evaluate and interpret wort and beer quality daily, including analytical results, process consistency, and taste. Implement changes to improve processes, recipes, beer flavor and consistency as directed.
• Ensure that production areas are always clean and organized. Organize and rotate hop and grain inventories.
• Continuous problem solver — identify root causes and take action to solve problems rather than stopping at the initial issue.

Join the Big Grove Iowa City production team as a Brewery Operator and help produce the exceptional beer we’re known for. This role supports the full brewing process—from raw materials through fermentation to cellar work—while maintaining our gold medal standards for quality, safety, cleanliness, and consistency. If you’re passionate about craft beer, thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment, and take pride in doing things the right way every time, we’d love to meet you.

Technical & Operational Skills

• Production and Operation:
  Managing all stages of brewery operations. Monitoring fermentation, tracking gravities and managing yeast health, dry hopping and carbonating finished products.
• Mechanical Aptitude:
  Proficiency in troubleshooting pumps, valves, boilers and other brewery machinery as necessary
• Forklift Operation:
  Certification in safely handling forklifts for material transport.
• Quality Control:
  Ensure product meets company standards and regulatory requirements
• Cleaning and Sanitation:
  Executing Clean In Place (CIP) procedures for tanks and equipment to maintain quality standards
• Packaging and…