We are currently hiring a full- time, seasonal Cellar Person at the Angry Orchard Cidery in Walden, New York.
As a Cellar Person, you'll support daily cider production operations while maintaining high safety, sanitation, and quality standards. You'll work across cellar, packaging, and cidery functions, assisting with apple processing, equipment cleaning, inventory movement, and production support. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys working in a fast-paced manufacturing environment and is interested in learning the craft of cider making.
What You'll Brew:
- Support apple pressing operations, including equipment setup, cleaning, and teardown.
- Operate forklifts safely to move apple bins, totes, inventory, and materials throughout the site and load or unload trucks.
- Assist with packaging operations, including kegging, canning, and bottling products.
- Maintain sanitation standards in assigned production areas in support of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) requirements.
- Troubleshoot basic utility and process equipment issues.
- Restock materials and manage inventory movement as needed.
- Support a positive cider-making culture and collaborate with production team members.
- Learn cider-making fundamentals including apple processing, yeast management, fermentation, aging, cold processing, packaging, and utilities.
- Work indoors and outdoors year-round in a cider production environment that may overlap with public tour operations.
- Lift up to 50 pounds, stand and walk for extended periods, climb stairs and elevated platforms, and crouch or crawl as needed to perform essential job functions.
What Ingredients You'll Bring:
Minimum Qualifications:
- High school diploma.
- Forklift experience.
- Experience in cider production, winemaking, or brewing with an interest in cider production.
- Must be at least 21 years old.
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds, including repetitive lifting.
- Ability to stand and walk for extended periods of time, up to 11 hours per day.
- Ability to climb stairs and work at heights or on elevated platforms.
- Ability to step over, crouch under, or crawl beneath equipment and obstacles as needed.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Technical degree or certificate.
- Formal education in Viticulture, Enology, Brewing, Fermentation Science, or a related field.
- Forklift license.
- 1–2 years of commercial experience in cider production, winemaking, or brewing.
Level: 8
In accordance with pay transparency laws the pay rate for this role if hired is $18.27 - $29.81 per hour. However, it's important to note that where the person hired starts in this range is dependent on their related experience, skillset and location.
Some Perks:
Our people are our most important "ingredient." We hire the best talent; and we reward, develop, and retain them too.
In addition to a generous 401k and more, Part Time Boston Beer Coworkers have the following perks available*:
- Health and wellness program
- Free Financial Coaching
- BBC Coworker Relief Fund
- Commuter Benefits
*Talk to your recruiter about eligibility
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Fair Chance Ordinance and the CA Fair Chance Act.
Boston Beer Corporation is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workforce. In order to help ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veteran's Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants who wish to request accommodation in the job application process can contact [email protected] for assistance.
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Skills Required
- High school diploma
- Forklift experience
- Experience in cider production, winemaking, or brewing (interest in cider production)
- Must be at least 21 years old
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds (including repetitive lifting)
- Ability to stand and walk for extended periods (up to 11 hours per day)
- Ability to climb stairs and work at heights or on elevated platforms
- Ability to step over, crouch under, or crawl beneath equipment and obstacles
- Technical degree or certificate
- Formal education in Viticulture, Enology, Brewing, Fermentation Science, or related field
- Forklift license
- 1-2 years of commercial experience in cider production, winemaking, or brewing
The Boston Beer Company Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about The Boston Beer Company and has not been reviewed or approved by The Boston Beer Company.
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Healthcare Strength — Core coverage includes medical, dental, and vision insurance alongside a comprehensive wellness program. Additional resources like financial coaching bolster the overall health and wellbeing offering.
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Retirement Support — 401(k) support is defined with a clear employer match for most non‑union coworkers, with alternate terms documented for certain union groups. This codified structure, reflected in company materials and filings, underscores reliability of retirement benefits.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Lifestyle perks such as two free cases of beer per month (21+), a dog‑friendly HQ, beer education/certifications, and a homebrew competition enhance total rewards appeal. Wellness programming and free financial coaching further support day‑to‑day wellbeing.
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What We Do
We are The Boston Beer Company and together we are heavy. From the very beginning, Jim Koch wanted to create a company that he would want to work for, creating a culture that celebrated beer with a passion and depth of knowledge that can’t help but be contagious to others. Forty years of brewing beer and cultivating talent later, we continue to be a passionate group of individuals who focus on raising the bar in everything we do. We're always looking for hardworking, motivated and competitive people who strive to push the boundaries and never settle. Not to be lost in the shuffle is the ability to have fun – after all, we are a beer company, and if you can’t have fun in this business, there’s something wrong!
