Brewer

St Austell Brewery Ltd; Warmley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A quality-driven brewery in Warmley seeks an enthusiastic Brewer to join its growing team. The role offers a chance to learn through the full brewing cycle, ensuring high standards in beer production. Candidates should have brewing experience, communication skills, and flexibility to work rotating shifts, including weekends. The company offers 25 days of leave, discounts on food and accommodation, and career development opportunities. This position requires candidates to have the right to work in the UK.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

30% discount on food & drink

50% discount on accommodation

Company pension scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Health cash plan

Qualifications

• Candidates should have brewing and production experience.
• Strong communication skills are essential.
• Ability to work a rotating shift pattern is required.

Responsibilities

• Participate in all brewing cycles including raw ingredients and fermentation.
• Maintain high standards across Health & Safety and quality.
• Support packaging teams with finished beer supply.

Skills

Brewing and production experience

Communication skills

Problem-solving ability

Ability to support laboratory functions

Flexibility and team-focused mindset

Education

Institute of Brewing qualifications (or equivalent)

Job description

We’re looking for an enthusiastic and diligent Brewer tojoin our Warmley, Bristol site, where our close-knit team works across brewing,engineering, packaging, laboratory, and distribution to produce around 250,000pints each week. This is an excellent opportunity to join a quality-driven,modern, and expanding brewery. The ideal candidate will be passionate aboutbeer, hard-working, reliable, able to work within our fortnightly rotatingshift pattern and committed to maintaining high standards across Health &Safety, HACCP, quality, and communication.

This varied role offers the chance to develop skills acrossthe full brewing cycle—from raw ingredients through to fermentation,filtration, and supplying finished beer (cask, keg, bottle, and can) to ourpackaging teams. It’s well suited to someone passionate about brewing who iskeen to learn.

It is important that any potential candidates are able to commit to theshift-based nature of this role, where working patterns rotate fortnightlybetween early shift (6:00–14:30) and late shift (13:30–22:00).

Candidates will also be required to work a weekend rota (paid at time and ahalf).

What We’re Looking For:

• Brewingand production experience.
• Ideally,the ability to support laboratory and packaging functions.
• Preferably,Institute of Brewing qualifications (or equivalent).
• Happy and cabale of working a rotating shift pattern (two weeks of earlies, two weeks of lates).
• Strong& confident communication skills.
• Practical problem-solving ability.
• A desireto learn and develop new skills.
• Apositive, enthusiastic, hands-on approach.
• Flexibilityand a collaborative, team-focused mindset.
• Physicallyfit and comfortable working in a demanding environment.

What we offer in return...

• 25 days’ annual leave (plus 8 bank holidays).
• 30% discount on food & drink and 50%discount on accommodation.
• Fantastic training & career developmentopportunities.
• Discounted membership with local businesses.
• Company pension scheme
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Company bonus scheme.
• Health cash plan.

Additional Info...

This role will require you to work two different shiftpatterns: 6am to 2.30pm and 1.30pm to 10pm.

For further information and a job description, please [e-mail]

St Austell Brewery Ltd is an Equal Opportunities employer,and we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligiblecandidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation,gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, orpregnancy and maternity. We also welcome requests for flexible working.

Early applications are encouraged as we’ll reviewapplications throughout the recruitment process and reserve the right to closethe advert at any time. Please note that we politely request no contact fromrecruitment agencies or media sales. Speculative CVs from recruitment agencieswon’t be accepted, nor the fees associated with them.

We are not able to offer sponsorship for this role. Please only apply if you have an existingright to work in the UK.