Quality Lab Technician, Late Night Shift | Lakewood, NY

Location: New York

Join our passionate community brought together by our love for great beer, cider, craft cocktails, and the process that makes it all happen. Quality is our thing, and so is staying curious—always learning, evolving, and pushing to get better at what we do. We’re fired up by the people who enjoy our pours and the teams that make it all possible.

If you’re into collaboration, craft, and being part of a tight-knit crew, we’d love to raise a glass with you.
** WHO WE ARE & WHAT WE OFFER
** Artisanal Brewing Ventures (ABV) is a top 10 regional craft alcohol company in the US, made up of 5 long standing, successful craft brands (75+ combined years!):
Victory Brewing, Bold Rock Cider, Sixpoint Brewery, Southern Tier Brewing & Southern Tier Distilling. We have locations in 5 states (NY, PA, OH, VA, NC) including taprooms, production facilities, & our corporate headquarters.
* Competitive Compensation
* Exceptional Health Benefits
- No Waiting Period to Enroll
- Paid Family Leave
* Flexible Schedules & Generous Paid Time Off
* Ample Product Discounts
* Opportunities for Growth Across 5 Successful Brands
** WHAT WE DO
** At Southern Tier, some of the best moments happen with a great beer in hand. That idea—and our commitment to brewing beers that live up to those moments—led us to team up with Artisanal Brewing Ventures back in 2014. Since then, our brewers have been able to focus on what they do best, while Southern Tier has reached more craft beer fans in new places.

Beyond that, sharing resources like marketing, administration, and accounting has created valuable business efficiencies. Access to carefully selected ingredients and the collaborative opportunities that come with scaling have made the Southern Tier-ABV partnership a true match made in craft beer heaven.
** Quality Technician, Late Night Shift |
** Southern Tier Brewing Company - Lakewood, NY
* Hourly Rate: $21 USD
*** WHAT YOU’LL DO
** The Quality Technician executes all daily quality duties in the areas of packaging, cellar, laboratory, and sensory, ensuring the day-to-day operations of the lab are run according to the Quality SOPs. They ensure quality is a priority across the brewery by focusing on quality control testing, analysis, reporting, and troubleshooting in all areas of production. This includes sterile work for microbiological stability screening, fermentation tracking, chemistry, statistics, sensory, and package testing.

They will be trained to be cross-functional in analytical, microbiological, and organoleptic testing.
*** This position will work late night shift hours; 3p-1:30a EST, Monday - Thursday
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* Reports to:

** Quality Manager
** Understands and follows all safety procedures and wears appropriate PPE.
* Executes daily quality duties across the brewery. Able to work with lab team to provide weekend and holiday coverage.
* Ensures that the daily operations of the lab are run according to the Quality SOPs.
* Works with the Quality Manager to continuously improve Quality SOPs, sample workflow, and record keeping.
* Collects, organizes, and reports QA/QC data from raw materials through packaging.  Reviews Quality Records for completeness and accuracy.
* Works independently and closely with laboratory team to complete daily task and longer-term projects. Communicates clearly when handing off a task to another person.
* Escalates issues and out-of-specification results quickly and appropriately to laboratory and brewing leadership.
* Analyzes data and presents findings to brewery leadership.
* Collaborates with other departments and team members to tackle issues as they arise.
* Assists with maintaining consumables and equipment inventory ordering, and recordkeeping in the laboratory area and other Quality work spaces throughout facilities.
* Helps coordinate proper disposal of all laboratory products, including disposables and waste.
* Maintains, calibrates, and verifies accuracy of equipment and instrumentation.
* Maintains clean work spaces including laboratories and all other Quality work spaces.
* Performs chemical and analytical testing on product samples including:  + IBU, color, and acetaldehyde testing on a UV/Vis spectrophotometer.  +…