Brewery Supervisor

About This Job

The Brewery Supervisor will be crucial in ensuring smooth operations at our main Cold Brew production hub. You’ll oversee daily operations, maintain facility standards, and ensure quality from brewing to packaging. Leading the team, you’ll focus on improving efficiency, inventory management, and team training, while collaborating with regional teams to drive excellence. In the near term, you’ll set goals for safety, quality, and efficiency. In the long term, you’ll help scale systems to support growth in Northern California. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to Blue Bottle’s future growth by developing a world-class team and facility.

This is a full-time, exempt role based in our Berkeley location.

You Will

• Oversee all brewery activities at Berkeley, leading a talented production team.
• Implement systemic improvements to ease workload and clarify complex scenarios.
• Develop scalable production strategies, processes, and systems to drive costs down while maintaining quality.
• Collaborate with regional teams to build strong partnerships and support team success.
• Create and maintain production plans, engaging cross-company stakeholders to ensure output matches customer demand.
• Calculate labor needs, hire, schedule, train, manage, and develop a production-excellence team.
• Review and update SOPs and best practices for consistency.
• Monitor inventory levels, update reorder points, and quantities as needed.
• Measure performance, identify KPIs, and develop continuous improvement strategies.
• Oversee equipment calibration and maintenance, ensuring top performance for output needs.
• Ensure safety processes and strict adherence to state labor regulations.
• Define and sustain production processes and quality standards, providing tools and support for accurate, timely, and high-quality products.
• Collaborate with the Food Safety team to ensure compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices and food safety rules.
• Advocate for brewing and packaging through observation, instruction, and committed study.
  
  

You Are

• An experienced leader of people who empowers and trusts your team delegates responsibility, and finds teaching moments to continuously grow and improve your team’s skills.
• Empathetic and hospitable, always eager to listen, understand, learn,n and field questions for your team and coworkers. You are a quick reader of people and situations, who is able to accurately troubleshoot issues, gauge the capabilities of your team, and deploy the right people to the right problem.
• An excellent communicator (clear, articulate, and hospitable) who is the nexus from which production, retail, e-commerce, quality, and logistics teams are able to gain valuable insight and confidence related to all collaborations between departments. You are a collaborator at your core and a team player who is flexible to changes as our production demands shift.
• A strategic thinker who is never fully satisfied with the status quo and always looking for ways to improve your team’s efforts, but who is also excited to roll up your sleeves and lead with integrity when required.
• Detail-oriented and a maniacal creator of lists, schedules, process diagrams, etc. yet flexible and ‘can do’ when the inevitable surprise pops up that requires urgency and creativity to resolve
• Always ahead of schedule: You anticipate problems beforehand and take preventive measures, actively communicate, and ask for assistance, in order to resolve potential problems before they become an actual issue for our teams, team members, or guests.
• Highly observant of data and metrics and intent on using both to develop new ideas and opportunities for process improvement.
  
  

You Have

• 2+ years leading people in complex, production, or related environments.
• General mechanical knowledge and confidence with brewing systems, equipment, and software.
• Understanding of the many facets of production quality assurance.
• Broad knowledge of a range of leadership strategies and production processes.
• Previous experience in large-scale coffee production and/or cold brewing preferred
• Zero tolerance for inhospitable behaviors and ardor toward providing feedback and working toward a resolution with any team members needing a course correction.
• Clear, articulate, and hospitable communication skills.
• Comfort using online tools including Microsoft Suite and Google Suite.
• Last but not least, a deep love for great coffee, food, and exceptional customer experiences.
  
  

A Few Benefits We Offer

• Health, dental, and vision coverage starting on your first day
• 401(k) plan
• Paid time off
• Discounts on Blue Bottle food items, drinks and merchandise
• One free bag of coffee beans per week
  
  

$68,640 - $70,000 a year

At Blue Bottle, you’ll be critical to guests enjoying delicious coffee. We aim to provide delightful hospitality to everyone who visits us, in person or online. If you’re ready to help bring amazing products to life, please apply and join us.