The Cellar Worker is an essential, entry-level position supporting the daily operations of the production floor. This role is heavily focused on cleaning, sanitization, and material handling. It is a highly physical job that offers a ground-floor opportunity to learn commercial mead production from the inside out.
Key Responsibilities
- Cleaning & Sanitization: Perform routine CIP (Clean-in-Place) procedures on fermentation tanks, brite tanks, hoses, and fittings to ensure a sterile production environment.
- Packaging Operations: Assist on the canning and bottling lines. Responsibilities include loading empty containers, monitoring fill levels and seaming, catching and packing finished product, and palletizing cases.
- Wholesale Order Fulfillment: Pick, build, shrink-wrap, and stage pallets for our wholesale distribution across an 18-state footprint. Ensure outbound orders are highly accurate and secure for freight pickup.
- Material Handling: Assist in receiving, organizing, and maneuvering heavy raw materials, including safely handling 55-gallon honey drums, fruits, spices and other brewing ingredients.
- Production Support: Assist the production team with mead transfers, filtering, and packaging runs (kegging and bottling).
- Facility Maintenance: Maintain a clean, safe, and organized cellar workspace, including scrubbing floors, emptying trash, and cleaning exterior tank surfaces.
- Record Keeping: Help accurately log cleaning schedules and basic production metrics as directed.
Requirements & Qualifications
- Physical Capability: Must be able to repeatedly lift 50+ lbs, safely maneuver pallet jacks, and stand, bend, or crouch for extended periods in a wet production environment.
- Attention to Detail: A strong understanding that 90% of commercial brewing and mead-making is cleaning. Strict adherence to safety and sanitization protocols is non-negotiable.
- Work Ethic: Reliable, punctual, and willing to tackle repetitive, physically demanding tasks with a positive attitude.
- Team Player: Ability to take direction well, communicate clearly with the production team, and adapt to shifting daily priorities.
- Experience: No prior commercial production experience is required, though a passion for craft beverages and a willingness to learn are highly valued.
Compensation & Perks
- Pay: $13.00 – $15.00 per hour
- Free shift meals: Enjoy free food from our kitchen during your shifts.
- Discounts: Sweet discounts on Crafted Artisan Meadery merchandise.
- Experience: Build your resume by working alongside one of the most award-winning makers of session meads in the world.
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: $13.00 - $15.00 per hour
Benefits:
Application Question(s):
- This is strictly a part-time role (typically 2+ days a week). Are you specifically looking for part-time work?
- Are you able to comfortably lift 50 lbs and stand for extended periods?
- We craft small-batch meads in a historic church, which is very different from a standard production setting. Factory production experience isn't something we are after in this role but instead we are looking for someone is passionate about craft beverage and learning the industry. Describe why this appeals to you?
Work Location: In person
