Technical Brewer

Job Description

**Requisition ID:** 35925 **Molson Coors Beverage Company** is currently seeking a **Technical Brewer** to join our Brewing Team at Creemore Springs Brewery based in **Creemore, Ontario**! The role of Technical Brewer is responsible for ensuring the quality, consistency, and efficiency of all brewing processes. This position combines technical brewing expertise with strong leadership, process management, and biochemical/mechanical problem-solving skills. The Technical Brewer safeguards product integrity, supports continuous improvement, and ensures compliance with safety, quality and regulatory standards. Excellence in this role allows the brewing team to meet its continuous improvement goals and sets the entire production team up for success. **MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:** - Employee Health and Safety (EHS) - Ensure the health and safety of the brewing team is the top priority through shift change meetings to reinforce brewery policies through swift and concise action to deal with presented concerns. - Help maintain our strong culture of health and safety through regular communication, training, enforcement, inspections, incident investigation, and improvement plans. - Production planning - Schedule daily brewing, cellar, and filter operations based on forecast - Coordinate dry-hopping, tank transfers, and maintenance tasks within the brewing department - Manage yeast handling, re-pitching, and internal lot tracking - Inventory Management - Monitor and maintain raw materials - Maintain full traceability and accurate inventory - Production Tracking - Input and maintain production within our ERP system - Maintain accurate BOMs in response to recipe updates or material changes - Maintenance and Projects - Participate in our preventative maintenance program - Respond to emergent equipment related issues including aiding in repair and mitigating downstream effects - Lead and participate in projects from small trials to integration of capital expenditure - Product Quality - Work with the quality department to ensure products meet specifications - Investigate and troubleshoot quality related events and issues - Track and report KPI’s **IF YOU HAVE THE FOLLOWING, WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU:** **EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:** - Formal brewing education or 5 years’ experience in a fast paced, rotating shift, beer manufacturing environment, including at least 2 years at the supervisory level. - Experience in production planning from material management to production scheduling according to the cadence of brewing operations is essential. - Experience with automation in beverage manufacturing, with an understanding of ladder logic programming/PLCs is required. - Experience managing people in the consumer-packaged goods industry is preferred. - Experience with food safety standards in a manufacturing environment, or in a quality lab is an asset. - Innovation experience in the beverage industry, including new product development and new process implementation is an asset. - Experience solving common brewery mechanical problems with a hands-on approach is preferred. **QUALIFICATIONS:** - Proficiency in Word and Excel and familiarity with database applications necessary for maintenance of production schedules, reports, and analysis. - Basic skills in a Windows operating environment and the ability to learn new software a necessity - Strong verbal and written communication skills are required. Must be able to effectively communicate verbally with fellow employees and operators daily to give direction, provide leadership, and understand concerns, and must be able to write clearly and concisely to formulate and maintain standard operating procedures and reports. - Developed ability to reason through problems to find the best possible solutions while taking all variables into account. - Proven ability to trouble-shoot, learn from mistakes, and consider the experiences and ideas of others to determine a course of action. - Ability to think strategically and be a self-starter. **VALUES:** Creemore Springs Brewery requires all employees to work in a way that supports the values of our brewery. - **Hard Work**: Employees are expected to complete regular duties in an efficient manner while maintaining a willingness to complete other tasks as required, ensuring that safe and efficient delivery of a quality product will satisfy consumers time and time again. - **Integrity**: Employees will show pride in the work, striving to continually improve everything they do, and will never compromise on the quality standards on which the brewery was built. - **Independent Thinking:** An ability to complete work independently and with minimal supervision while being mindful of upcoming production requirements and other tasks being performed simultaneously. Molson Coors is an equal opportunity employer. We invite applications from candidates of all backgrounds, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic. If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or recruitment processes, please e-mail jobs@molsoncoors.com. **Pay and Benefits:** At Molson Coors, we’re committed to paying people fairly and equitably for the work they do. **Job Posting Total Rewards** **Offerings:** **$68,900.00** - **$90,400.00** (posting salary range) + **11%** target short term incentive + **$11,000** on average spent on benefits per employee, including but not limited to health, dental, vision, retirement with above market employer match, wellness incentives and EAP + paid time off (including holidays, vacation days and sick days). The posting range provided above for salary is what we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We ultimately pay based on a number of non-discriminatory factors that inform pay decisions including but not limited to the required work location, previous work experience, skill set and internal equity.