About the Role
Support daily cider production operations while maintaining high safety, sanitation, and quality standards. This hands-on role involves working across cellar, packaging, and cidery functions, assisting with apple processing, equipment cleaning, inventory movement, and production support in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
Responsibilities
- Support apple pressing operations, including equipment setup, cleaning, and teardown.
- Operate forklifts safely to move apple bins, totes, inventory, and materials throughout the site and load or unload trucks.
- Assist with packaging operations, including kegging, canning, and bottling products.
- Maintain sanitation standards in assigned production areas in support of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) requirements.
- Troubleshoot basic utility and process equipment issues.
- Restock materials and manage inventory movement as needed.
- Support a positive cider-making culture and collaborate with production team members.
- Learn cider-making fundamentals including apple processing, yeast management, fermentation, aging, cold processing, packaging, and utilities.
- Work indoors and outdoors year-round in a cider production environment that may overlap with public tour operations.
- Lift up to 50 pounds, stand and walk for extended periods, climb stairs and elevated platforms, and crouch or crawl as needed to perform essential job functions.
Requirements
- High school diploma.
- Forklift experience.
- Experience in cider production, winemaking, or brewing with an interest in cider production.
- Must be at least 21 years old.
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds, including repetitive lifting.
- Ability to stand and walk for extended periods of time, up to 11 hours per day.
- Ability to climb stairs and work at heights or on elevated platforms.
- Ability to step over, crouch under, or crawl beneath equipment and obstacles as needed.
Skills
- Forklift operation
- Equipment setup
- Equipment cleaning
- Equipment teardown
- Packaging operations
- Kegging
- Canning
- Bottling
- Sanitation standards
- Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)
- Utility troubleshooting
- Process equipment troubleshooting
- Inventory management
- Cider making fundamentals
- Apple processing
- Yeast management
- Fermentation
- Aging
- Cold processing
- Viticulture
- Enology
- Brewing
- Fermentation Science
Location
- Walden, New York
Work Type
- Full Time
- Temp/Seasonal
Experience Level
- 1-2 years of commercial experience in cider production, winemaking, or brewing (preferred)
Education Level
- High school diploma
- Technical degree or certificate (preferred)
- Formal education in Viticulture, Enology, Brewing, Fermentation Science, or a related field (preferred)
Salary/Compensations
- $18.27 - $29.81 per hour
Benefits
- Generous 401k
- Health and wellness program
- Free Financial Coaching
- BBC Coworker Relief Fund
- Commuter Benefits
About the Company
- Boston Beer Corporation is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workforce.
Equal Opportunity
- Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Fair Chance Ordinance and the CA Fair Chance Act.
- In order to help ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veteran's Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants who wish to request accommodation in the job application process can contact jobs@bostonbeer.com for assistance.
