Brew house operator jobs in Finland
Brew house operators monitor the processes of mashing, lautering and boiling of raw materials. They make sure that the brewing vessels are clean correctly and timely. They supervise the work in the brew house and operate the brew house equipment to deliver brews of good quality within the specified time.
Brew house operator – how much is the pay in Finland?
What the trade paid in 2024
| Median | 16.88 €/h |
|---|---|
| Bottom tenth | 12.74 €/h |
| Top tenth | 23.48 €/h |
| Employees | 14,875 |
Pay by sex, 2024
| Sex | Median | Employees |
|---|---|---|
| Women | 16.31 €/h | 6,974 |
| Men | 17.42 €/h | 7,901 |
Brew house operator - Which skills are essential?
Tolerate strong smells expelled by the goods being processed during the production of goods.
Measuring the density of liquids, including oils, using instruments such as hygrometers, or oscillating tubes.
Operate process control or automation system (PAS) used to control a production process automatically.
Apply heat treatment aimed at preparing and preserving half-finished or finished food products.
Manage employees and subordinates, working in a team or individually, to maximise their performance and contribution. Schedule their work and activities, give instructions, motivate and direct the workers to meet the company objectives. Monitor and measure how an employee undertakes their responsibilities and how well these activities are executed. Identify areas for improvement and make suggestions to achieve this. Lead a group of people to help them achieve goals and maintain an effective working relationship among staff.
Milling process, which combines advanced and conventional wet and dry milling. Milling methods of grain for beverages ensure good husk conservation and optimal grinding of the endosperm, which provide numerous advantages for the brewing process and final products.
Clean machinery used for food or beverage production processes. Prepare the appropriate solutions for cleaning. Prepare all parts and assure that they are clean enough to avoid deviation or errors in the production process.
Apply regulations regarding manufacture of food and food safety compliance. Employ food safety procedures based on Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP).
Measuring pH which is a measure of acidity or alkalinity.
Process of wort boiling where the brewer adds hops to the wort and boils the mixture in a wort copper. The bitter compounds of the wort give the beer a longer shelf-life.
Check bottles for packaging. Apply bottle testing procedures to verify if the bottle is fit for containing food and beverage products. Follow legal or company specifications for bottling.
Sterilise workspaces and equipment using hoses, scrapers, brushes, or chemical solutions.
Be at ease in unsafe environments like being exposed to dust, rotating equipment, hot surfaces, sub-freezing and cold storage areas, noise, wet floors and moving lift equipment.
Support management of raw materials and plants required by the department for production. Oversee the needs for material and notify when stock levels reach re-order levels.
Adhere to organisational or department specific standards and guidelines. Understand the motives of the organisation and the common agreements and act accordingly.
Apply and follow national, international, and internal requirements quoted in standards, regulations and other specifications related with manufacturing of food and beverages.
Managing the mashing process and understanding its influence on wort quality and character of the finished fermented beverage.
Apply regulations regarding manufacture of food and food safety compliance. Employ food safety procedures based on Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).
The most updated systems and best available techniques in the brewing industry.
Process of lautering, where the mash is separated into clear, liquid wort and residual grain. Lautering usually takes three steps: mashout, recirculation and sparging.
Follow production schedule taking into account all requirements, times and needs. This schedule outlines what individual commodities must be produced in each time period and encapsulates various concerns like production, staffing, inventory, etc. It is usually linked to manufacturing where the plan indicates when and how much of each product will be demanded. Utilise all the information in the actual implementation of the plan.
Schedule long term objectives and immediate to short term objectives through effective medium-term planning and reconciliation processes.
The processes and techniques through which raw materials are converted into fermentable substrate for beer manufacturing.
Collaborate in a team with other food processing professionals in service of the food and beverages industry.
Monitor medium term schedules with budget estimations and reconciliation on a quarterly basis.
Ensure the quality of all factors involved in a food production process.
Use air-conveyor chutes to transfer products or mixtures from containers to storage tanks.
Transfer of the wort from the wort copper to the whirlpool to clean the wort of undissolved hops and protein flocks and ready it for cooling.
Operate a grinding mill that grinds grains such as cereals, cocoa beans or coffee beans to obtain powders or pastes with different consistencies and grain sizes.
Basic ingredients of beer, which consist of water, a starch source such as malted barley, brewer's yeast to produce the fermentation and a flavouring such as hops.
Brew house operator - Which skills are useful but not essential?
The set of health, safety and hygiene standards and items of legislation applicable in a specific sector.
Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature scales.
Milling and mills and their operation in theory and practice.
Make up and complete shift schedules and production reports in a timely manner.
Financial operations such as calculations, cost estimations, budget management taking relevant commercial and statistical data into account such as data for materials, supplies and manpower.
Liaise with fellow colleagues to ensure common understanding on work related affairs and agree on the necessary compromises the parties might need to face. Negotiate compromises between parties as to ensure that work in general run efficiently towards the achievement of the objectives.
Assessing barley variety, germination potential, moisture content, nitrogen content, and screening for grain size.
Monitor the roasting of coffee beans and grains for proper degree of roasting to produce the desired flavours and colours.
Details of milling operations related to grind size, particle size distribution, heat evolution. Milling processes for different cereals and grains.
Methods of cleaning and disinfecting reusable packaging to prevent or remove deposits of organic or inorganic nature of the packaging.
Monitor and control required temperatures in the different phases of production until the product reaches suitable properties according to specifications.
Measuring the alcohol concentration based on the information in the spirit safe and maintaining the distillation process and the distillation strength within the parameters asked by regulations for taxation purposes.
Variety of beers and their fermentation, ingredients and processes used during their production.
Identify root causes of problems and submit proposals for effective and long-term solutions.
Follow checklists and ensure compliance with all the items included in them.
Liaise with managers of other departments ensuring effective service and communication, i.e. sales, planning, purchasing, trading, distribution and technical.
Make sure to comply with environmental legislation in food production. Understand the legislation related to environmental matters in food manufacturing and apply it in practice.
Label raw material/ product samples for laboratory checks, according to implemented quality system.
Read and comprehend job-related reports, analyse the content of reports and apply findings to daily work operations.