Dogfish Head Craft Brewery is seeking an off-centered leader to orchestrate the brew- and production-centric symphonies; from a departmental perspective this includes oversight of brewing/cellaring, yeast management, sanitation, packaging, warehouse/logistics, scheduling, wastewater, maintenance/utilities.  The successful candidate will be a triple threat:  bringing outstanding people leadership, technical excellence, and off-centeredness in the form of hand in glove fit with our culture.  In loose terms, you will be working with the awesome folks who support the creation, bottling, and shipping of world-class beer to parched consumers all over the place.  You will think strategically and long-term to plan and ensure adequate capacity without compromising safety, quality or efficiency; this will include changes/expansion to departmental footprints, technology, equipment, operating procedures, and so forth.  You’ll champion process improvement through automation, training and seeking out new and innovative techniques.  You will enable the creative geniuses who beer-innovate, by readying people and processes to fully realize their imagination in a bottle.  You’ll model teamwork, collaboration, and open, honest, and healthy communication...it will not be enough for you to merely talk a good game, your record must show it.  If we wikipedia’d leadership, we should expect to find you there, if not, we definitely won’t find you here.  You must also be adept at the business end of the beer, in order to execute vetted, comprehensive budgets and hold you and your teams accountable.  Yeah, you’ll be doing a lot (even more than this), but you know what, you’re going to love what you do, and the talented cast of characters that you’ll be doing it with. 

You should be a strong lead-by-example manager, who believes that your people’s successes are your greatest achievement.  You must also be a strong communicator, both written and spoken, who builds cohesive, collaborative teams.  This isn’t fluff, ya’ll; if you’re not passionate about your people then you simply won’t cut it in our environment.  You should be a strategic and long-term thinker, who maintains a handle on today while planning and positioning for tomorrow.  You must be flexible and adaptable in your approach and comfortable working in an environment where the goals are lofty, but the framework is loose.  Our ideal candidate will have an Engineering Degree in Brewing Science/Technology; however, a BS degree in a production science or engineering is required regardless.  A minimum of ten years of experience directing brewery operations is required; craft brewery experience will likely set our hearts aflutter.  You must be highly proficient in MS Office products; Great Plains experience is a plus.   

Qualified, interested and dynamic individuals should please submit their letter of intention, salary requirements and resume to careers@dogfish.com .  Resumes without cover letters will be hard pressed for consideration, truly.  We offer competitive compensation, including bonus potential, health and dental insurance, and free beer!  Look us up on the web at www.dogfish.com.

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