St Austell Brewery
Brewing Shift Lead
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There's never been a better time to join us. As demand continues to grow – particularly through our partnership with Harbour Brewery and successes with Proper Job 0.5% – we're expanding our brewing and packaging teams to support this exciting period of growth.
Role Overview
As Brewing Shift Lead, you will ensure that all brewing activities are carried out safely, efficiently, and to our exacting quality standards. You'll play a central role in maintaining smooth operations within our fast-paced production environment, championing Health & Safety, HACCP, quality, communication, and continuous improvement.
This varied and rewarding role offers the opportunity to develop and apply your technical brewing skills across the full production cycle, including fermentation, centrifugation, and filtration. You will work closely with Packaging, Quality, and Engineering teams, supplying finished beer for cask, keg, and bottle.
Responsibilities
- Ensure all brewing activities are carried out safely, efficiently, and to our exacting quality standards.
- Maintain smooth operations within our fast-paced production environment.
- Champion Health & Safety, HACCP, quality, communication, and continuous improvement.
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Requirements
- Solid knowledge of brewing, fermentation, and beer processing, gained through brewery production experience.
- Strong and confident communication skills.
- Practical problem-solving ability and sound decision-making.
- Desire to learn, develop, and support progression and continuous improvement.
- Positive, enthusiastic, and hands-on approach to leading and completing tasks.
- Flexible and collaborative leadership style.
- Comfortable working all of the 3 shift patterns, including nights, from Sunday 10pm to Friday 10:30pm on a weekly rotation.
- Institute of Brewing qualifications (or equivalent).
Shift Pattern
You will be required to work a three-shift pattern: 6am to 2.30pm, 2pm to 10.30pm, and 10pm to 6.30am. You will also be required to work a short weekend rota (paid at time and a half).
Benefits
- 30% discount on food & drink and 50% discount on accommodation.
- Fantastic training & career development opportunities.
- Discounted membership with local businesses.
- Company pension scheme.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Company bonus scheme.
- Health cash plan.
- Free onsite parking.
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Additional Info
- We are not able to offer sponsorship for this role. Please only apply if you have an existing right to work in the UK.
- St Austell Brewery is an Equal Opportunities employer, and we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. We also welcome requests for flexible working.
- Early applications are encouraged as we’ll review applications throughout the recruitment process and reserve the right to close the advert at any time.
- Please note that we politely request no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. Speculative CVs from recruitment agencies won’t be accepted, nor the fees associated with them.
- Unauthorised use, reproduction, or scraping of this advertisement, including any company information or branding, by third-party or non-partner websites is strictly prohibited.
If you would like any further information, please email: recruitment@staustellbrewery.co.uk
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