Lab Manager

Fort Point Hen House - Quality Manager

Location:

Santa Rosa

Role

Title:

Quality Technician

Pay: $60k‑80k/yr (Overtime Exempt)

Hours:

Full Time (40 hours/week)

This is an opportunity to join a growing team of skilled, experienced brewing professionals. As a Quality Manager, you will lead and oversee all aspects of quality assurance and quality control across the brewery. This role is responsible for maintaining and improving product quality, food safety systems, and laboratory operations, while partnering cross‑functionally with brewing, packaging, and operations teams.

The Quality Manager plays a critical leadership role in ensuring that all products meet the highest standards of consistency, safety, and sensory excellence.

Ideal candidates will bring strong technical expertise in beverage quality, proven leadership experience, and a passion for building scalable quality systems in a production environment.

Fort Point Hen House is a Bay Area brewing company made up of leading local, independent brands, San Francisco’s Fort Point Beer Co. and Sonoma County’s Hen House Brewing Co. Together, Fort Point Hen House offers a diverse and complimentary lineup of award‑winning beers and ciders known for their freshness, consistency, and distinguished packaging. Driven by the spirit of what made craft beer so special to begin with – delicious beer that’s local, fresh, independent, accessible, and made with community in mind – Fort Point Hen House is for anyone who enjoys good beer and cider from the Bay Area.

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• 3+ years of laboratory experience within the beer, wine, or beverage manufacturing industry
• Deep knowledge of microbiological testing, including method development and troubleshooting
• Strong understanding of beverage spoilage organisms and contamination prevention strategies
• Experience performing routine quality control analyses (e.g., pH, DO, CO₂, gravity, cell counts) with a high degree of accuracy and consistency
• Strong understanding of GMPs (Good Manufacturing Practices) and lab safety protocols
• Ability to interpret data and communicate results clearly to production and operations teams to support timely decision‑making
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and maintain accurate records

• 322 Bellevue Ave. Santa Rosa CA 95407

• $60-80k/yr

• Saturday thru Wednesday
• 5 x 8 hour shifts per week
• Availability to work days, nights and swing shifts required
• Assigned shifts subject to change

• Laboratory Operations
  • Oversee all laboratory operations, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and consistency
  • Ensure proper calibration, maintenance, and validation of lab equipment
  • Manage inventory of lab supplies, reagents, and materials
  • Review and validate microbiological and analytical data
  • Implement new testing methodologies and improve existing protocols
• Quality Assurance
  • Ensure compliance with policies outlined in the Quality Manual, GMP policy, MSS, and Hazard communication Plan
  • Daily gravity, pH, and cell counts of fermenting beer
  • Microbiological Analysis of in process and finished product
    • Preparing media
    • Plating
    • Recording results
  • Interpretation of micro results through selective media and gram stain
  • Oversee environmental monitoring and sanitation verification programs
  • Density/viability and data management of yeast
  • Manage and maintain yeast schedule
  • Preparation and data management of controlled tastings, D‑force analysis, general sensory analysis and go/no go analysis.
• Quality Control
  • Oversee review and analysis of all Quality Control Point data
  • Ensure accurate and timely reporting of quality metrics to leadership
  • Utilize data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement
  • Investigate out-of-spec results and implement corrective actions
  • Manage sample submission and relationships with external laboratories
• Perform other related duties as assigned.
• Maintain and promote a positive work environment with a focus on customer service based problem solving
• With Quality Director, work to continuously improve quality at Hen House Brewing Company

• Paid vacation time (2 weeks)
• Paid sick time
• Health Care:
  Employer contribution to Kaiser base plan. PPO plan available.
• Eligible for Dental, Vision, Accident, Life, and Identity Theft group plans
• Eligible for Pet Insurance group plan
• Non Matching 401(k)
• Commuter pre‑tax benefits
• Medical and Dependent Care FSA pre‑tax benefits

Fort Point Hen House is committed to equal employment opportunity in all of its employment practices and makes employment decisions for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.