What to Expect Your First Day Working at A Brewery
If you’ve read my home page you know that one of my goals has been to get a full-time job at a brewery. I have officially accomplished this goal! This article goes over my first day on the new job as well as what you can expect for your first day working at a brewery.
I’ve worked many different jobs over a wide range of professions and job titles. Some of those include soccer referee, bus driver, customer service, sales, retail cashier, and most recently production at a brewery. With that in mind, I’ve had a lot of first days on the job. Since working at a brewery was new to me I searched the web for what I should expect the first day, and came up short. I’ve worked my first week now, and survived, so figured I would share my experience for anyone else starting their first day at a brewery.
Filling Out Paperwork
One thing that is very common on your first day no matter where you are, is filling out paperwork. My normal hours are 6am to 2:30pm but on my first day I went in at 11am to fill out paperwork for the human resources department. We went through the same basic paperwork on a normal first day at the job. Filled out personal information, signed off on the job description and pay, and filled out tax forms. We then went through the benefits that came with the full-time job.
After that we went to the gift shop where I could pick out three t-shirts, which I use as work shirts. I picked out my three shirts and then went and provided my I-9 forms to verify I could legally work in the United States. After she scanned my documents, we did a quick tour of the main facility and she pointed me in the direction of where I would be working. The brewery I work at has four locations in my town and I work at two of them.
A lot of Introductions
Also like any new job, you’ll probably be meeting a lot of new people your first day, depending on how big your brewery is. Working in a large brewery, I still haven’t met everyone working there after a week. I walked up to the building and had no idea where I was going. It didn’t help that this location is just a warehouse and not marked. I attempted the first door, which was locked. Some people who were leaving then pointed me to another door. I eventually found my way to the correct person and started meeting new people. At first I only met the people working in the same department as me. After a while, I’ve started to meet more people working such as Mechanics and Brewers.
Expect to Work
Up to this point all of these bullets have been common first day topics. Paperwork and introductions come with every new job. Not knowing what to expect, I went in business casual clothes with a change incase I was going to be working. Let me tell you, I worked. After I got to the facility I work at, I was fitted for new steel toed, slip resistant work boots. I changed into my work clothes and put my boots and safety glasses on. After I changed, I was then quickly lead to the production line where I immediately started to work. I worked the line for the rest of my 8 hour shift.
Expect some training
Whether you’ve worked at a brewery before or not, you’ll probably receive some training your first day. At the first facility I worked at, we have to manually load the glass onto the bottling line. I was quickly shown how to remove the glass from the packaging and load the glass onto the line. After we finished the bottling run I was shown how to clean the boxing machine. Throughout the first week, I’ve been shown many more task on different production lines.
I hope these bullets have shown you a little about my first day working at a brewery and help you prepare for your first day. If there is anything else you experienced and I should add to this list please let me know in the comments below! Be sure to sign up to my newsletter and subscribe to my social media to stay up to date on all my adventures!
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