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You’ll oversee night-shift lab operations across packaging, chemistry, and microbiology, support and coach technicians, and help ensure products and materials meet quality standards. You’ll also drive continuous improvement, troubleshoot issues, and partner with Brewing and Packaging to resolve process deviations.\nWhat You'll Brew:\nOversee night-shift operations across the packaging, chemistry, and microbiology labs, ensuring work meets quality, safety, and operating standards.\nLead and support Technicians by coordinating workflow, providing coaching and training, validating adherence to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and maintaining capability records.\nInvestigate production and process deviations, facilitate Root Cause Analyses (RCAs), escalate issues as needed, and help develop effective resolutions.\nReview, update, and create quality SOPs and communicate process changes through One-Point Lessons (OPLs) in partnership with the Training Department.\nAudit Critical Points (CPs) and Critical Control Points (CCPs), conduct Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) audits, validate processes, and follow through on Quality Assurance Reports (QARs) and Defective Product Material Reports (DPMRs).\nOperate, maintain, troubleshoot, and verify laboratory equipment; maintain Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) tracking; participate in sensory panels; and determine whether products meet specifications for release or hold.\nDrive continuous improvement by recommending process and equipment improvements, supporting new product transitions, maintaining the lab Master Sanitation Schedule (MSS), and building effective partnerships across Brewing, Packaging, and Quality Assurance.\nWork safely in a production environment with constant noise, production equipment, and forklifts, including spaces that may experience extreme temperatures.\nWork overtime as needed, which may include 12-hour days, weekends, and holidays, while following all required brewery safety procedures and using assigned personal protective equipment.\nWhat Ingredients You'll Bring:\nMinimum Qualifications:\n2 to 4 years of work experience in a production facility or laboratory environment.\nFamiliarity with packaging, brewing, and microbiological laboratory practices.\nKnowledge of food safety, sanitation, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP), 5S, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and laboratory and production safety practices.\nMechanical aptitude and experience operating, maintaining, or troubleshooting equipment.\nProficiency with computers and automated equipment used to enter and interpret data, including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and QI Analyst.\nExperience using continuous improvement, analytical, problem-solving, and project-management skills in a production or laboratory environment.\nAbility to communicate and collaborate effectively with stakeholders across multiple functions and levels.\nAbility to lift up to 50 pounds, including repeated lifting, and regularly walk or stand for extended periods of up to 11 hours per day.\nAbility to perform required production activities including crouching, bending, twisting, reaching, climbing stairs, and working from heights or elevated platforms, and to wear assigned personal protective equipment.\nLevel: 8IC\nIn accordance with pay transparency laws the pay rate for this role if hired is $30.40 per hour. However, it's important to note that where the person hired starts in this range is dependent on their related experience, skillset and location.\nSome Perks:\nOur people are our most important \"ingredient.\" We hire the best talent; and we reward, develop, and retain them too.\nIn addition to generous healthcare on day one, stock purchase plan, 401k and more, Full Time Boston Beer Coworkers have the following perks available*:\nTuition reimbursement\n\nFertility/adoption support\n\nFree financial coaching\n\nHealth & wellness program and discounts\n\nProfessional development & training\n\nFree beer!\n\n*Talk to your recruiter about eligibility\nThe Boston Beer Company may use AI-enabled tools to assist with identifying qualified candidates and streamline recruiting operations. These tools help us improve efficiency and consistency. All hiring decisions are made thoughtfully by recruiters and hiring teams. We regularly evaluate our processes to promote fairness, reduce bias, and comply with applicable laws.\nTo ensure the integrity of the evaluation, please refrain from using AI-generated enhancements during your phone and virtual interviews. If we discover that you have used such enhancements without authorization or prior disclosure, you may be disqualified from the hiring process. External AI tools may not be used to transcribe or record the interview at any time. This ensures your privacy, and Boston Beer's confidential information are protected.\nQualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Fair Chance Ordinance and the CA Fair Chance Act.\nBoston Beer Corporation is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workforce. 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