Brewing Area Leader

We’re on the lookout for a passionate and driven Brewing Area Leader (Internal Job Title is Brewing Leader) to join our team at Stone & Wood Brewery in Murwillumbah.

This is an incredible opportunity to make a direct impact on the brewing process and lead a talented team to new heights.

Your Role

Reporting to Brewery Manager, you’ll have full accountability and responsibility for the people, safety, and quality within the brewing area. Through managing a team of brewing leaders, who lead two teams of shift brewers, you will drive a high-performance culture, ensuring our brewing operations run smoothly and efficiently. From people management, through safety leadership, to continuous improvement - this is a role that will let you make a real impact.

Key Responsibilities

People and Capability: Develop your teams by providing mentorship, coaching, and technical expertise. Lead skills development and foster a continuous learning culture to ensure high-performance teamsSafety: Lead a safety culture that develops ownership in safety capabilities and risk assessment and management, ensuring safety is always top of mind across your teamsQuality & Environment: Champion quality and environmental impacts across all brewing operations by ensuring strict adherence to quality systems, processes, and compliance.Delivery & Performance: Manage production targets, deliver key performance indicators, and drive continuous improvements through 5S and TPM methodologiesFinancial & Commercial: Own the financial performance of the brewing area, including budgeting, cost management, and capital planning. Driving value creation initiatives that deliver measurable business outcomes.

What You Bring

You have a number of years in brewing or manufacturing leadership and a passion for building high-performance teams. You’re driven by effective people management, operational excellence, and you know how to foster a culture of continuous improvement. With your leadership skills, you’ll inspire your team to push boundaries and achieve great results.

What's on offer?

Long term career growth at Australia's leading beverage company - Lion Lead a team of passionate brewers and leaders Product allowance - enjoy some free beers on us!

We’re a certified B Corp, which means we care about people, planet and purpose—not just profit. We’re committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, and we celebrate the unique perspectives that help us grow and innovate. We intentionally embrace difference and cultivate belonging every day, whether through our investment in our Reconciliation journey through our Innovate RAP, our commitment to gender pay equity or providing progressive people policies.

If you need specific support or accessibility adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know at talentacquisition@lionco.com so we can make sure that your recruitment process is fair and we enable you to shine. This includes tailored support for First Nations people, individuals with disabilities, those who are neurodivergent, and people who identify as transgender or gender diverse as we understand the unique challenges and concerns you may face.