Delivery Driver/Canning Line/Kegging Production Worker

Position Summary

The Production Assistant supports the production team with local deliveries and pickups 2-3 days a week, and assists with canning, kegging, and brewhouse cleaning on other scheduled days. This role emphasizes safe, efficient operations with minimal warehouse involvement.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

- **Delivery Focus (2-3 days a week)**: Pick up and deliver products to Tasting Room locations daily; call and prepare delivery runs; load, unload, and operate a van safely.

- Maintain safe operation and clean appearance by complying with company operational policies, procedures, and standards; operate and maintain vehicle in safe and clean condition.

- Receive materials from North Park location and deliver to proper locations; load and unload trucks using a forklift.

- Make local deliveries and pickups; interface with shipping and receiving personnel to ensure timely deliveries, including pulling orders, receiving, and putting away product.

- **Packaging & Cleaning Focus (Other Scheduled Days)**: Assist in canning, kegging, and other packaging operations; clean and organize kegs and casks.

- Clean the brewery facilities, including the brewhouse, tank exteriors, and floors; assist with maintenance and overall cleanliness of the production area.

- Maintain accurate and legible records for packaging and deliveries.

- Communicate with the public in our tasting room as needed.

- Perform other duties as assigned, including occasional support for inventory control and quality assurance in packaging.

In order to succeed in this role, a person must be safety-minded, efficient, quality-focused, have a great work ethic, a positive attitude, and be a team player. You will be responsible for upholding the high standards of excellence of Hess Brewing Company.

## Supervisory Responsibilities

This position has no direct supervisory responsibilities.

## Interaction

Interacts with all employees and customers.

## Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

- High school diploma or equivalent.

- At least 1 year of experience in a packaging brewery or distribution supply role preferred; forklift experience required.

- Maintaining a good driving record.

- Excellent communication skills and customer service oriented.

- Customer focus, dependability, teamwork, coordination, organization, time management, reporting skills, inventory control, documentation skills, equipment maintenance.

- Some computer skills preferred; data entry skills a plus.

- Knowledge of packaging SOPs; ability to recognize deviations from accepted practices.

- Be able to work independently or as part of a team with minimal supervision.

- Ability to prioritize and organize workflow on a daily basis to accomplish required tasks.

- Punctuality; must be 21 years or older and able to work a flexible part-time schedule (Tues/Wed for deliveries; other days for packaging/cleaning, approx. 2-4 days/week total depending of production needs).

- Ability to regularly lift, push, or pull up to 170 pounds.

## Physical Demands and Work Environment

While performing the duties of this position, the employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must be able to lift, push, pull, and/or move up to 170 pounds (approx. the weight of a half barrel of beer). Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

The employee is frequently required to communicate with others; reach computers and other office and warehouse machinery; stand for long periods of time; talk, hear, and use hands; use fine manipulation and simple grasping to handle equipment and utilize the computer; twist/turn, reach over shoulders, bend/stoop, and stand/walk on a continual basis.

The work environment is fast-paced and demanding. The noise level in the work environment is moderate to loud. Also includes working outdoors in elements/weather.

## Note

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” relationship.