Sensory Coordinator

Position Summary: This position oversees all points of quality inspection throughout the three breweries at Fort George. The Sensory Coordinator’s role will be evaluating and monitoring everything from ingredients, processes, finished beer, recipe development, all pre-packaged beers, flawed beers, and flawed ingredients. This position works closely with brew staff, pub department, sales, and marketing departments to ensure all beers are held within spec and adjusted when falling out of spec. Varying schedule to include weekends, evenings, holidays, and extended hours as business dictates.

Essential Functions:

• General
• Running sensory evaluation on pre-packaged beers
• Putting together steep and dry hop tests for all incoming ingredients and ones that are new to the market
• Performing bench top trials on new recipes and new brands
• Evaluating data logged by brew staff and lab personnel to improve our quality and efficiency
• Work with brew, cellar, and packaging teams to ensure best practices are maintained, evolved, and continuously refined/improved
• Recording process changes on core recipes and reviewing sensory data to ensure continuous improvement
• Work with the Marketing/Sales team to constantly improve our beer based upon the changing market; i.e. styles/guidelines, consistency, consumer preferences, emerging trends, and overall just awesome beer people want to drink
• Check-ins with pub staff to confirm the quality of draught systems
• Evaluation of barrel-aged beer stock and blends
• All other duties assigned by supervisors
• Attending industry functions and building key relationships with outside partners in pursuit of goals and overall mission 
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Communication:

• High level of communication with supervisors
• Respectfulness & professionalism in all communication 
• Working with suppliers to maintain quality in the ingredients used by the brewery
• Daily meeting with coworkers at production facility
• Weekly meetings with Brewery Managers
• Quarterly write-ups on the state of sensory for brew staff
• Ability to closely work with pub department, sales, and marketing department to ensure all beers are held within spec and adjusted when falling out of spec

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, & Ideal Qualification:

• Must be 21 years of age.
• At least 3 years experience working in a brewery
• Proficiency in spreadsheet and Draughtlab(Or Current Fort George Sensory Software
• Ability to operate a forklift, pallet jack, and scissor lift; incumbent will need to be certified within 3 months from the date of hire on all three pieces of equipment
• Valid OLCC card acquired within 3 months of hire
• Basic mechanical competency
• Ability to read labels on chemicals and understand SDS sheets
• Knowledge of occupational hazards and safety precautions associated with brewing, cellaring, and packaging
• Must be able to adapt to frequent changes in workload and adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate
• Ability to communicate effectively in a high-noise environment

ORGANIZATIONAL VALUES:

Create a positive force for our community, a safe opportunity-rich workplace, and an excellent beer experience

Commit to a respectful workplace, diversity, equal opportunity, and sustainability at every level of our organization and efforts

Commit to a service model of teamwork, passion for craft, and ownership of our organization's mission

TO BE CONSIDERED:

Anyone interested must complete and submit an application, which can be found at https://fortgeorgebrewery.com/about/careersjob-information/ or in person at our pub at 1483 Duane Street in historic downtown Astoria, Oregon. For more information including a full job description, respond to this posting.