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Ezra Fine

Portland,OR

Summary

Dynamic Brewery Operations Lead at Migration Brewing with a proven track record in team management and process improvement. Skilled in preventive maintenance and quality control. Enhanced productivity through effective training and communication, ensuring timely shipments and optimal inventory management. Committed to fostering a collaborative work environment while achieving production goals.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Brewery Operations Lead

Migration Brewing
07.2024 - Current
  • Enhanced team productivity by providing ongoing training and development opportunities
  • Managed and delegated staff and material resources to meet weekly production goals
  • Fostered a positive work environment by promoting open communication, teamwork, and employee engagement
  • Ensure all shipments get invoiced correctly, and make it onto the truck on time
  • Coordinate pub deliveries and ensure orders get assembled and delivered on a weekly basis
  • Manage inventory (cans, paktechs, lids, case trays, labels) and do weekly inventory checks to ensure necessary consumables are onsite when needed
  • Coordinate with head brewer on production needs based off of weekly PO
  • Ensure invoices get adjusted if needed, and posted on a weekly basis
  • Data entry for warehouse/packaging side on EKOS platform

Packaging Lead

Migration Brewing
07.2023 - 07.2024
  • Maintain canning line, and keep up with preventative maintenance
  • Ensure canning line is properly cleaned beginning and ending of every day using the appropriate chemicals at the correct dosages
  • Ensure that product is up to spec prior to packaging (CO2, DO's, clarity as well as taste)
  • Coordinate packaging runs with Brewery Operations lead according to weekly shipments, ensuring to hit all targets to keep shipments on schedule and maintain cash flow
  • Operate the canning line efficiently, minimizing liquid loss and ensuring quality is maintained throughout run
  • Manual seam checks every 100cs
  • DO checks every 100cs
  • Cooler organization, ensuring pallets get put back in accordance to how and when they will be shipped out
  • Training packaging team on filler side to ensure operators understand what to expect and how to fix it
  • Problem solve on the fly, figure out why issues may be happening and come up with solutions on how to fix them
  • Communicate any major maintenance or parts purchases that need to be done

Cellar Production

Imperial Yeast
04.2021 - 07.2023
  • Maintain a clean and sterile production environment
  • Ensure tank parts and equipment have spent appropriate amount of time in chemical sinks
  • Build and prep parts for the next days work
  • Load/unload autoclave with clean parts/carboys
  • Pull QC vials for the lab to sample
  • Check daily gravities on tanks to track yeast growth and ensure everything is on track
  • Ensure aeration gets turned on and off at appropriate times according to fermentation track
  • Ensure pH adjustments get made in timely, sanitary manner according to fermentation track
  • Clean tanks according to written SOPs, ensuring each port gets prepped for caustic and every part gets replaced on the tank post caustic, pre sani
  • Track tank cleanliness with an ATP swab, re-clean tanks if not up to spec
  • Prep media brews for the next day according to recipes/prop sheets, weigh out smaller ingredients and assemble pallets of bags to be dumped
  • Brew media up to spec ensuring to hit all time, pressure, and temp targets
  • Transfer 'media' from kettle to tank using a heatex to ensure media is cooled to appropriate temperature to ensure healthy yeast growth
  • Sanitize and operate sterile water filter (Sanitron)
  • Ensure opening and closing checklists get completed
  • Maintain open communication, updating slack with any major issues that may arise
  • Be a valuable teammate willing to step in to assist with any task that needs to get completed

Warehouse Runner

Imperial Yeast
11.2020 - 04.2021
  • Responsible for communicating needs between departments
  • Delivering Raw materials to production as needed
  • Truck/Equipment maintenance
  • Receiving shipments of raw materials for production as well as various lab supplies
  • Ensuring all QC/Water/Media samples make it to the lab in a timely manner
  • Manage carboy stock, ensure the lab has the clean vessels they need to continue blending, as well as taking dirties back to production to be cleaned
  • Offer a hand to other departments during downtime
  • Maintaining a clean work environment
  • Surrounded items in cling wrap and tape to protect from damage.
  • Strapped items down to secure throughout transportation.
  • Utilizing caution when transporting goods that require a sterile environment
  • Operated moving truck safely to deliver items to destination without nicks or scratches.

Packaging Line Lead

Brew Dr. Kombucha
07.2020 - 11.2020
  • Ensure the line is clean and seams are in operational spec
  • Ensure line is properly connected to the tank, product is stable and the tank has the correct amount of head pressure to run successfully
  • Designate roles and manage a crew of 5 to maximize production as well as efficiency
  • Maintain good communication with the team as well as production supervisors and the production manager
  • Package product while minimizing loss and ensuring product and cans stay within QC standards
  • The ability to package high carb, warm product with minimal loss
  • Log speed as well as loss every hour, report case counts on paper every 100cs and communicate any issues as they come up as well as solutions when they are found
  • Diagnose all issues on the filler, depal, conveyance, as well as the videojet and paktecher
  • Maintain speed to keep up with production demands and minimize downtime
  • Ensure everything is properly shut down and clean at the end of day. Rinse down and scrub auxiliary equipment to ensure no stuck product is building up. Make sure the area is neat and chems are returned to the locker
  • Performed maintenance tasks and adjustments to preserve production efficiency.
  • Log and track sellable case count, consumables used and relay any information needed to the shipping department
  • Blow down tanks
  • Take inventory of consumables once weekly (cans, ends, trays, etc.)
  • Organize dunnage and recycle pickups
  • Handle basic computer tasks such as printing pallet tags as well as case tray labels

Packaging Line Lead and Operator

Craft Canning And Bottling
08.2018 - 07.2020

Wild Goose 250 Responsibilities (Single lane machine)

  • Check scheduling and contact client the day before a run to verify arrival time as well as case count and the need for any extra equipment
  • Communicate with other operators on warehouse arrival time to account for a thorough run through of spare parts, consumables, and equipment
  • Verify all equipment needed is safely loaded and correctly strapped in the trucks. Ensure everything needed for an in field fix is there
  • Maintain open communication with the team to ensure everyone's safety when unloading equipment
  • Communicate with Brewers on correct set up location as well as correct connections for the equipment
  • Be able to manage multiple machines at once, ensuring all sensors are firing correctly, the canning line is set up to maximize efficiency, and all parts are functioning properly
  • Be able to diagnose and repair any mechanical issues in the field, reach out for help for longer than 15min with no solution
  • Communicate with the client as well as the team when an issue arises, explain what is happening and how to move forward
  • Be able to package product with minimal loss and ensure packaged product meets QC Standards
  • Do manual teardowns to ensure seams are in spec every hour or 100cs, post results to Slack and collect cans from the run to cut on the seam saw
  • Be able to operate a wide variety of Quality Control Equipment including D.O. Meters, carbonation testers, and seam saw/cameras
  • Log on google forms and communicate the days sellable case count, loss, as well as consumables and extra equipment used. Post a detailed overview with a photo of the log onto Slack
  • Return to the warehouse, unload the equipment and prep the kit with consumables and the correct equipment for its next run. Ensure seam cans make it onto the correct shelf
  • Communicate the status of the truck to the next crew via Slack

Wild Goose 600 Responsibilities (Dual lane machine)

  • Double check the schedule for the week and verify what consumables are needed
  • Ensure the line has enough chems, the correct ends as well as hygienic swabs. Communicate needs and give enough time in the morning to grab the items needed
  • Ensure the line is clean and seams are in operational spec
  • Designate roles for the crew, having one person manage the depal, two people on fills, and another person to do seam teardowns, weigh cans and help manage transitions
  • Package product while minimizing loss and ensuring product and cans stay within QC standards
  • Log speed as well as loss every hour, report case counts on slack every 100cs and communicate any issues as they come up as well as solutions when they are found
  • Diagnose and repair all issues on the filler, depal, conveyance, as well as the videojet and paktecher
  • Maintain speed to keep up with production demands and minimize downtime
  • Ensure everything is properly shut down and clean at the end of day. Rinse down and scrub auxiliary equipment to ensure no stuck product is building up. Make sure the area is neat and chems are returned to the locker
  • Performed maintenance tasks and adjustments to preserve production efficiency.
  • Log sellable case count, consumables used, as well as loss and report it on the google form. Post a detailed overview of the day to Slack

Ranch Manager

Diamond Double T Ranch
07.2016 - 06.2018
  • Herd management of 40 horses, 35 head of cattle, 6 pigs
  • Property maintenance and repairs
  • Operate multiple pieces of machinery such as a front load skid steer, farm tractors and attachments, and UTVs
  • Use equipment to manage irrigation water flow, land health as well as create new fencing and platforms
  • Keeping up to date with herd health, logging worming and shot dates as well as vet appointments and treatments
  • Hauling livestock
  • Ensure a clean work space
  • Performed repairs and preventive maintenance on equipment and property
  • Inspected and repaired equipment for livestock and pasture management
  • Kept detailed service records for farm machinery
  • Assisted in birth of new livestock including pulling calves and foals
  • Herded livestock using horses
  • Maintained condition of up to 7 stock horses used to herd cattle
  • Budgeted equipment purchases and regular repairs

Education

High School Diploma -

Reading Memorial High School
Reading Massachusetts
06.2015

Skills

  • Preventive Maintenance
  • Cellaring tasks
  • Warehouse/shipping coordination
  • Heavy Equipment Operation
  • Shipment loading/Forklift operation
  • Supervision
  • Team management
  • Process improvement
  • Organization
  • Quality control
  • Packaging solutions
  • Machine adjustment
  • Customer service
  • Problem resolution
  • Communications
  • Critical thinking
  • Creative problem solving

Timeline

Brewery Operations Lead

Migration Brewing
07.2024 - Current

Packaging Lead

Migration Brewing
07.2023 - 07.2024

Cellar Production

Imperial Yeast
04.2021 - 07.2023

Warehouse Runner

Imperial Yeast
11.2020 - 04.2021

Packaging Line Lead

Brew Dr. Kombucha
07.2020 - 11.2020

Packaging Line Lead and Operator

Craft Canning And Bottling
08.2018 - 07.2020

Ranch Manager

Diamond Double T Ranch
07.2016 - 06.2018

High School Diploma -

Reading Memorial High School