Current Job Openings
Taproom Staff
BASED IN ATHENS, GA
MISSION
Our mission is to build an industry-respected craft brewery that helps people navigate the beautiful and complex world of beer.
PURPOSE
To Foster Human Connection.
VALUES
Crave Curiosity – A curious mind leads to a better living.
Moderation Matters – In life as in beer, being balanced is best.
People Over Product – Products are expendable. People aren’t.
Extend Kindness – Start with trust. No gossip. Give grace.
Make It Better – Whether job or community, make it better. The best idea wins.
Leave A Legacy – Set up your successors for success.
TAPROOM STAFF: POSITION OUTCOMES
- Teamwork, Leadership, & Communication
- Add value to the team each time you are on a shift.
- Pick up in areas where other teammates need help.
- Be always mentally and physically present while clocked in
- Lead by example by performing all duties the correct way every time, even when no one is watching.
- Communicate with other members of the team if you leave your post, if you need help, or if you are doing anything not explicitly stated in your role.
- Always communicate politely and respectfully.
- Taproom and CCBC Education
- Engage with all educational resources.
- Engage with all customers you come into contact with in a positive way to educate and excite.
- Become a Cicerone Certified Server within 3 months of acquiring the position. The necessary training and cost of the exam are provided for by CCBC.
- Customer Experience: Customer Service & Attitude
- Be kind, authentic, and professional while interacting with customers.
- Go above and beyond to make each customer’s visit memorable and positive.
- Maintain a positive attitude while giving excellent customer service to every customer you meet.
- Contribute constructive feedback in a positive way.
- Maintain a positive attitude while on the clock and on brewery property.
TAPROOM STAFF: POSITION VALUES
- Hospitality-Minded: ensure the highest-quality experience for our guests with a focus on education and exciting promotions.
- Team Player: always consider the team first when making decisions.
- Proactive Problem Solving: take initiative in identifying and pre-emptively addressing challenges in the taproom.
- Solutions-oriented: creatively solves all problems directly within their purview and offers potential solutions to any problems needing to be raised to the attention of leadership.
- Professionalism: a commitment to maintaining the highest standards of professionalism, including (but not limited to): punctuality, timeliness, and maintaining a positive attitude.
- Communication Skills: an ability to actively listen and take the correct communication channels to relay direction, a concern, or feedback.
TAPROOM STAFF: PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Ability to work in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
- Ability to work in an unfatigued state.
- Ability to accurately gauge lengths of time and distance.
- Ability to quickly store and recall instructions in one’s short-term memory.
- Ability to concentrate.
- Ability to cope with sudden changes in surrounding and/or emergency situations and/or alarms.
- Demonstrated caring, committed, and concerned attitude about safety.
- Ability to work on your feet for up to 8 hours, maintaining a rigorous pace of activity, including walking the equivalent of ~8-10 miles on a shift.
- The ability to lift an object that weights within the range of 20-80 pounds.
Cellar Specialist
BASED IN ATHENS, GA
MISSION
Our mission is to build an industry-respected craft brewery that helps people navigate the beautiful and complex world of beer.
PURPOSE
To Foster Human Connection.
VALUES
Crave Curiosity – A curious mind leads to a better living.
Moderation Matters – In life as in beer, being balanced is best.
People Over Product – Products are expendable. People aren’t.
Extend Kindness – Start with trust. No gossip. Give grace.
Make It Better – Whether job or community, make it better. The best idea wins.
Leave A Legacy – Set up your successors for success.
POSITION PURPOSE
The Cellar Specialist supports CCBC in helping people navigate the beautiful & complex world of beer by executing at a high level of quality and contributing to a culture of safety as part of the Southern Mill Cellar Team.
ACTIVITIES & OUTCOMES
- Developing foundational knowledge of key cellar tasks:
- Gravities, tank actions, crash times.
- Recording brand data and tank status.
- Pulling sample from FV.
- Prepping sample for Anton Parr 4500.
- Verifying stability.
- Prepping and clearing VDK samples.
- Changing temp on glycol control panel for tank actions/crashing beers
- Carbing and releasing beers for packaging.
- Performing carbonation readings with IDGM.
- Recording carbonation readings on tank hanger
- DH, fruit and adjunt additions.
- Selecting correct hop type, varietal, and weight for DH additions.
- Purging hop cannon.
- Breakdown of hop cannon post DH.
- Purging recirc pump.
- Setting up recirc and documenting recirc start and end times.
- Understanding of sanitary fruit addition.
- Recording all raw ingredients into data app
- Yeast handling
- Harvesting into kegs/brink.
- Taking sample for quality analysis.
- Weighing kegs and label appropriately.
- Performing yeast entry in app.
- Updating white board with yeast info
- CIP, CIP skid, chemicals and titrations
- Set up and break down of all vessels.
- Understanding of all CIP cycles and SOP’s.
- Understanding of chemicals and titrations.
- Filling out tank hanger and white board to record CIP status
- Commitment & Contribution to Culture:
- Culture of Safety: a commitment to a culture of safety.
- Safety Policies: must be competent through the completion of safety training and adherence to all policies in the CCBC Safety Guide, must advocate a culture of safety by following safety policies and encouraging his peers to remain complaint with CCBC safety policies.
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- Good Manufacturing Practices: knowledgeable of and practices GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices). Preventive Maintenance (PM)
- Preventive Maintenance: performs PMs as needed.
- Culture of Self-Development & Leadership:
- Leadership Training: Participates in and completes leadership development training assigned by the team’s manager.
- Leadership Development: They must build and maintain proficiencies in using the CCBC’s leadership program tools, concepts, & vocabulary.
- Skills & Competency Development:
- Learn, understand, and maintain quality cellar initiatives.
- Learn and maintain competency in safety policies, procedures, & regulations.
- Explore, connect, & learn about the Craft Beer Industry.
- Attend and learn about quality in craft beer through sensory class.
- Develop technical aptitude on CCBC equipment.
- Task Excellence & Efficiency:
- Must be able to work a later shift, if needed (2:00- 10:00 pm).
- Perform at a level of excellence with a focus on timeliness and process efficiency.
- Must establish and maintain a basic understanding of timely communication tools such as e-mail & the company communication application, Slack.
- The Cellar Specialist must maintain a flexible mindset during production changes, whether the changes are foreseen or made with short notice.
- Report to their shift on time and follow company clock-punch policies & procedures.
POSITION VALUES
- Technical Aptitude- the ability to learn quickly on specialized equipment & technical processes.
- Solutions-Oriented Positivity- maintains & promotes a positive outlook while seeking out the best solutions.
- Teamwork – reaches out to peers and cooperates with supervisors to establish an overall collaborative working relationship.
- Resilient & Adaptable: The ability to demonstrate support for innovation and for organizational changes needed to improve the organization’s effectiveness; initiating, sponsoring, and implementing organizational change; helping others to successfully manage organizational change.
- Attention to Detail – Does not let important details slip through the cracks or derail a project.
- Commitment to Quality & Excellence– Expects personal performance, team performance, and product quality to be nothing short of the best.
Taproom Assistant Manager
BASED IN ATHENS, GA
MISSION
Our mission is to build an industry-respected craft brewery that helps people navigate the beautiful and complex world of beer.
PURPOSE
To Foster Human Connection.
VALUES
Crave Curiosity – A curious mind leads to a better living.
Moderation Matters – In life as in beer, being balanced is best.
People Over Product – Products are expendable. People aren’t.
Extend Kindness – Start with trust. No gossip. Give grace.
Make It Better – Whether job or community, make it better. The best idea wins.
Leave A Legacy – Set up your successors for success.
TAPROOM ASSISTANT MANAGER
ACTIVITIES & OUTPUTS
Leadership & Communication
- Leads and attends to the taproom staff while the Assistant Manager is on-duty during their assigned shift.
- Effectively communicate expectations and updates to taproom staff during each assigned shift.
- Managing the taproom staff on duty with an focus on maintaining a positive and motivating work environment.
- Participates in the weekly Assistant Manager meetings.
- Constructively & appropriately delivers taproom staff feedback and concerns to management.
- Be always mentally and physically present while clocked in
- Lead by example by performing all duties the correct way every time, even when no one is watching.
Taproom Process & Quality Assurance
- Effectively manage, coordinate, & plan private and special events.
- Ensure that the taproom is operating efficiently according to the set processes and direction provided by the Taproom Manager & GM.
- Maintain inventory and quality control practices.
- Maintaining and enforcing quality and customer service standards to the taproom staff.
- Finding values-driven solutions to quality and customer service issues through thorough analysis.
- Processing and handling cash-outs at the end of shifts.
- Effectively supports the tracking and maintenance of inventory.
Taproom & CCBC Education
- Adaptable to swiftly learn & use new tools and software programs.
- Engage with all educational resources.
- Engage with all customers in a positive way with the goal to to educate and excite.
TAPROOM STAFF: POSITION VALUES
- Hospitality-Minded: ensure the highest-quality experience for our guests with a focus on education & exciting promotions.
- Leadership: the ability to influence or guide individuals or teams.
- Proactive Problem Solving: take initiative in identifying & pre-emptively addressing challenges in the taproom.
- Solutions-oriented: creatively solves problems directly within their purview & offers potential solutions to any problems needing to be raised to the attention of leadership.
- Professionalism: a commitment to maintaining the highest standards of professionalism, including (but not limited to): punctuality, timeliness, & maintaining a positive attitude.
- Communication Skills: an ability to actively listen & take the correct communication channels to relay direction, a concern, or feedback.
Accounts Payable Specialist
BASED IN ATHENS, GA
MISSION
Our mission is to build an industry-respected craft brewery that helps people navigate the beautiful and complex world of beer.
PURPOSE
To Foster Human Connection.
VALUES
Crave Curiosity – A curious mind leads to a better living.
Moderation Matters – In life as in beer, being balanced is best.
People Over Product – Products are expendable. People aren’t.
Extend Kindness – Start with trust. No gossip. Give grace.
Make It Better – Whether job or community, make it better. The best idea wins.
Leave A Legacy – Set up your successors for success.
POSITION PURPOSE
To oversee the AP and AR processes to ensure CCBC is in a financial position to support its mission to be a great and growing company.
Job Responsibilities:
- Manage the Accounts Payable Process to ensure all vendor invoices are received and reviewed prior to being input into Orchestrated Beer (ERP).
- Process weekly payment runs and any one off payments as requested.
- Prepare journal entries as necessary.
- Prepare weekly vendor aging reports and follow up on any past due invoices.
- Prepare all Purchase Orders in accordance with Creature Comforts control procedures.
- Generate distributor A/R invoices for all shipments.
- Manage all distributor billbacks and work closely with Marketing to ensure billbacks are processed timely and accurately.
- Process daily cash receipts and apply to appropriate invoices.
- Process monthly vendor statements and follow up on any outstanding balances.
- Prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliations.
- Participate in year-end audit by preparing work papers and preparing selections.
Job Requirements:
- Associates Degree in Accounting preferred.
- 2 to 3 years of relevant experience.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite software.
- Experience with SAP or other accounting software a plus.
- Strong level of organization and time management skills.
- Detail-oriented.
- Proper treatment of sensitive and confidential company information.
POSITION TITLE OUTCOMES & OUTPUTS
- Vendor invoices and Accounts Payable Process
- Manage the vendor invoicing process to ensure timely and accurate data input with a 95% accuracy rate.
- Ensure vendors are paid timely based on established payment terms 95% of the time.
- Proactively works to make the Accounts Payable process more efficient and accurate.
- Create vendor and customer aging reports
- Create CCBC purchase orders in accordance with CCBC policy
- Accounts Receivable – Distributor Invoices and Cash Receipts
- Manage the distributor invoicing process
- Ensure vendors are paid timely based on established payment terms 95% of the time.
- Proactively works to make the Accounts Payable Process more efficient and accurate.
- Participates in year-end audit by preparing work papers and preparing selections.
POSITION VALUES
- Proactivity — Takes initiative in identifying and pre-emptively addressing challenges in the department and develops solutions with little supervision.
- Detail-oriented — Consistently generates high-quality work products with an emphasis on accuracy, completion, and timeliness.
- Teamwork – Works with other departments to help them understand the financial implications of their decisions, and drive them to meet the companies financial goals.
- Continuous Improvement – Constantly looking for solutions to “make it better” and streamline the department’s daily tasks.
VP of Marketing
At Creature Comforts you can not only work for an industry-respected craft brewery but also join a company culture that seeks in every way to add value to your work experience.
We’re constantly searching for people who sincerely strive for excellence in everything they do, and desire to join a company committed to its employees and its community. We hire great people to keep our company strong.
Our Leadership Team is seeking an experienced partner, highly motivated, and creative-minded individual who wants to elevate our brand with world class marketing. This is a senior level role at Creature Comforts, and a highly cross-functional role that will assist in both large and small scope projects across all aspects of Marketing: Brand Marketing, Field Marketing, Consumer Marketing, Communications, and more.
The ideal candidate for this position will possess the following qualities:
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Creating a strategic Annual Marketing Plan including timeline, budget, deliverables
- Overseeing the execution of the Marketing Plan for a large portfolio of products
- Providing monthly guidance, execution and reporting against the Marketing Plan to the Operating Committee
- This role will be responsible for consumer and field marketing planning and execution
- Creating a measuring system to determine the success of all marketing initiatives
- Working with internal teams to develop consumer insights that inform the Marketing Plan, and testing the effectiveness of marketing initiatives
- Creation and execution of in-market and on-site marketing events
- Oversight of the public relations team to ensure coordinated efforts of campaign and managing media contacts
- Developing and overseeing written briefs for agencies and suppliers (creative, advertising, packaging, consumer promotions, merchandising, etc.) to direct their work and to generate concepts for effective execution of marketing plans
- Acting as subject matter expert to protect Creature Comforts’ trademarks and company rights to all POS, packaging, branding, etc.
- Working closely with the production, on-site Tasting Room, and commercial sales teams to execute new product launches
- Management of all Consumer Marketing Programs (including all social media and website management)
- This role will have people management responsibilities
Desired Qualifications – What qualifications do we hope that you have?
- A genuine love of people, and desire to help them grow and succeed (Required)
- Master’s Degree in Marketing, Sales, Public Relations, Advertising, Business, or related discipline
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Outstanding interpersonal relationship skills
- Strong project/time management skills
- Self-starter with strong follow through on assignments
- Ability to work independently on complex projects with minimal direction
- Eagerness to continually learn and adapt to change
- Detail-oriented and organized
- Authentic, Balanced, Creative, Community minded, professional, and focused on delivering quality in all that you do.
Ideal Work Experience: What do we expect that you have ideally done before?
- 7+ years of marketing experience, preferably with a blend of large scale corporate experience and start-up experience.
- Familiarity within the adult beverage industry, yet also experience outside of our industry
- Developed brand strategy and application across channel, including local and regional marketing
- Created and tracked against key consumption occasions, shopper messaging, and methods of activation
- Developed truly challenging and stretch goals, and driving execution to achieve those goals
- Past working relationships with Brand/Creative/Digital Agencies
- Experience in negotiating agreements with venues, media outlets, distributors, sports teams, etc.
- Ability to develop tools to support the gathering and analyzing of consumer information
- Capable of crafting compelling fact-based stories, preparing presentation, delivering content to a vast array of audiences
Functional Skills
- Knowledge and understanding of brand standards, TM use, legal guidelines and Vis ID SME
- Knowledge of Agency capabilities
- Shopper Marketing Principles
- Demonstrated strong social/digital background
- Event Marketing Experience
- Rules development, legal approval process
DELIVERABLES:
- Develop and implement an effective brand programming calendar and execute on time across target windows for both existing and new markets
- Develop and implement exciting, limited release program and small brewery operations marketing strategy
- Lead strategic innovation efforts to bring at least one new-to-world brand to market
- Evaluate existing legacy brand portfolio to ensure alignment, further develop confidence and skills, and improve story telling
Creature Comforts Values
Crave Curiosity – A curious mind leads to a better living
Moderation Matters – In life as in beer, being balanced is best
People Over Product – Products are expendable. People aren’t
Extend Kindness – Start with trust. No gossip. Give grace.
Make It Better – Whether job or community, make it better. The best idea wins
Leave A Legacy – Set up your successors for success
