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Distiller – Job Description
Position: Rum Distiller
Cotton & Reed, DC’s rum distillery, looking to hire a highly experienced distiller to lead our production operations. If you’re as excited as we are about taking on the country’s most under-appreciated spirits category, this is the job for you. Every day we change people’s minds about rum, highlighting its complexities and its possibilities with unusual fermentations, top-quality ingredients, and truly original botanical macerations. Now we need a full-time distiller to help meet rapidly growing demand.
Being a distiller is more than making great tasting spirits. The Cotton & Reed team is growing quickly and needs someone who enjoys wearing many different hats and is willing to step up in unexpected ways. Your expertise and enthusiasm for rum, fermentation, quality control, and filtration will maintain our rums’ reputation for excellence and originality. Your professional demeanor and managerial experience will make sure the proper supplies and ingredients are in stock, we never run out of a primary SKU, and the needs of the tasting room staff, event planner, and sales personnel are met.
This is a full-time salaried position. The distiller may need to work early mornings, late nights, and/or weekends as the production schedule requires.
The distiller is responsible for maintaining a “tour-ready” facility after production shifts, maintaining inventory levels of both inputs and outputs, performing general maintenance, maintaining safety standards, and regularly filing TTB paperwork.
At first, you will work with our current distiller consultant to learn our recipes and maintain consistency. Over time, we expect you to improve on our recipes and make your mark on the domestic rum world.
Your Responsibilities
Produce wash for distillation
Produce high quality rums using our 500-gallon hybrid still
Barrel, blend, spice, filter, and proof rums
Clean and sanitize production equipment
Complete production, bottling, & excise tax logs and documentation
Manage bottling operations
Maintain a clean, organized distillery
Ensure regular, proper maintenance of production equipment, including fermenters, boiler, still, pumps, bottle filler, filters, and all related equipment
Coordinate with other QA stakeholdersAbout You
Commercial distillation experience
Track record of independently managing operations
Supervisory experience
Demand quality performance of yourself and your peers
Flexibility to meet shifting market demands
An impressive nose for faults
Must be able to lift 55 lbs
Experience with facility and equipment maintenance
Passionate about rumCompensation:
Highly competitive salary, equity package, bonuses for hitting KPIsContact:
Reed Walker
Email: reed@cottonandreed.comTHANK YOU!
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