Key Responsibilities Taproom/Restaurant Operations:

• • Coordinate with kitchen staff to ensure smooth daily operation
  • Ensure bar and service staff are properly scheduled, trained, and resourced
  • Reports to the senior Little Fish management team

• Maintain a welcoming, educational, exciting, and inviting experience
• Actively participate in external-facing events at the taproom

Serve as brand ambassador:

• • Educate visitors about our beers, food, company, and culture
  • Identify additional promotional/event opportunities and foster relationships for promoting the brewery

• • Facilitate inventory maintenance
  • Participate in selection of appropriate merchandise

• • Daily opening and closing of the taproom for public visitation and private events
  • Coordinating facility maintenance as needed
  • Serving as point of contact for all taproom related inquiries
  • Setting up, maintaining, and cleaning draft system
  • Ensuring adequate stocking of beer and sorting merchandise inventory
  • Mitigating and responding to taproom related issues as they arise
  • Communicate with brewery staff and owners on beer stock, beer needs, and any flavor or quality issues that may arise
  • Promoting a safe and healthy work environment for all employees

• 2 years minimum service-focused role in a bar/restaurant/brewery or similar environment with management experience

• TIPS (or equivalent) certification strongly preferred. Selected candidate will be required to become certified upon hire and before starting.
• Cicerone “certified beer server”, or similar training such as BJCP judge, preferred. Selected candidate will be required to obtain Cicerone “certified beer server” or higher within 3 months of hire.
• Knowledge of and passion for craft beer and the brewing industry.
• Excellent customer service, interpersonal and proven leadership skills
• Completion of progressive management training program(s), such as Dare to Lead, preferred
• Ability to troubleshoot draft system & identify beer quality issues Strong communications skills – knowing when to ask questions, offer solutions, discuss issues and bring problems to upper management – and then communicating effectively in these situations deviation
• Attention to detail and adherence to standard operating procedures with minimal
• Retail math understanding required
• Retail point of sales system knowledge and experience highly recommended.
• Knowledge of safe work operations, safety policies and procedures including sanitary handling of beverages and potentially hazardous chemical and materials
• Entrepreneurial team spirit: willing to take initiative and jump in where needed; resourceful in making suggestions and offering solutions
• Problem solving: ability to quickly assess a situation and solve problems in a timely and effective manner
• Dependent independence: ability to work independently but also know when to seek direction/guidance appropriately and as needed
• Understanding and appreciating the brewery's goals of sourcing ingredients locally, seasonally, and operating as sustainably as possible
• Respect for employees and patrons of diverse ethnicities, socioeconomic backgrounds, gender identities, and sexual orientations.
  
  Candidates must be able to effectively perform the following on a regular basis:

• • Ability to function productively while standing and moving for significant periods of time necessary
  • Moving heavy objects repeatedly with minimal assistance required (i.e. moving cases/sixtels/135 pound kegs of beer by self or with use of a hand cart/dolly)
  • Be exposed to wet conditions
  • Ability to operate effectively with continuous, moderate noise levels

• Compensation will be based on experience.
• Pay is biweekly
• Paid time off
• Healthcare reimbursement
• Discounts on merchandise/food/beer
• Little Fish Brewing Company is an equal opportunity employer and values employee diversity with regards to (and certainly not limited to) race, ethnicity, gender, gender-identity, and sexual orientation.