COOP Product Design SAPB

We are currently hiring a Product Design COOP for our Research & Development Team at the Sam Adams Pennsylvania Brewery (SAPB) in Breinigsville, PA*. This position is from July-December.

*This role is full time on site, which requires that our coworkers reside within commuting distance to be onsite 5 days per week.

Here at The Boston Beer Company, we are always eager to find competitive, motivated, hardworking people who love beer and want to join our team. We work hard and we play hard. We are offering current college students exposure to a dynamic, growth organization that helps to solidify their career aspirations. This CO-OP program is designed to cultivate talent in a truly immersive experience. This position is from July-December 2025.

BBC will provide CO-OPs with meaningful learning, social, and networking experiences, exposure to real life business challenges, platform for creative thinking, and opportunity to work alongside and learn from BBC coworkers cross functionally.

By the end of CO-OP, students will have learned and gained core project management skills, marketing, and core business acumen, built relationships with our teams, have exposure to customer and consumer feedback, develop product launch support and marketing campaigns, and develop other marketing functional skills (depending on department placement).

As a Product Design Co-op, you will support the sensory evaluation and laboratory operations processes. This role offers hands-on experience in product testing, data collection, and analysis. Your work will involve preparing samples, conducting sensory sessions, ensuring the integrity of data collection, and sustaining inventories for both labs. In addition to sensory evaluation, you will assist with daily lab operations, including maintaining equipment, preparing solutions, and managing sample inventories. You will have the opportunity to engage in cross-functional projects. The position is also responsible for maintaining the product and ingredient databases and keeping the labs clean and sensory neutral.

The brewery environment is fast paced but friendly, so the Co-Op should have good time management skills and strong work ethic, but also enjoy the camaraderie and fun team events with the brewery team. You will learn how to organoleptically evaluate beverages and how these evaluations fit into any food and beverage company. You will also learn how to analyze and report data in a scientific and meaningful way to help influence business decisions.

This is a full time position and the brewing team hours are 6:30am-2:30pm.

What You'll Brew:

• Protect the sensory profile of high-quality products and ensure profile consistency
• Learn and understand how sensory assists in quality assurance in an active production brewing
• Support lab operations, including equipment maintenance and inventory management
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely project completion
• Support laboratory operations and sensory team to meet project timelines and goals
• Oversee interbrewery and flavor house shipments, both incoming and outgoing
• Opportunities to complete benchtop prototype development needed for trial work and new product testing
• Opportunities for personal research study

Best if you are interested in:

• Sensory Testing
• Benchtop Prototype Development
• Data analysis and interpretation
• Product development and food science

What Ingredients You'll Bring:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Enrolled in a 2+ year Food Science B.S or M.S program (also acceptable, Brewing, Psychology, Food Science Technology, Biology, Chemistry or )Chemical Engineering)
• Must be able to commit to a 6-month long COOP
• Must be 21 years of age or older
• Must be able to commute daily to the Sam Adams Pennsylvania Brewery in Breinigsville, PA.
• Time management, data analysis, multi-tasking, organizational skills are essential
• Must not require sponsorship to work in the United States, now or in the future
• Ability to lift up to 40lbs

This job role is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of a coworker and are subject to change.

In accordance with pay transparency laws the pay range for this role if hired is $18 - $20 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:

When candidates join Boston Beer's Early Talent Program, Brew Your Future, our early talent coworkers are empowered with impactful projects and learning sessions that contribute to real business outcomes, in addition to an inclusive, welcoming experience. There are many employee resource groups they can join and development training programs they can participate in. Our Early Talent program is made up of hands-on training in the office and at its breweries. Interns and Co-ops have the chance to meet with leaders at weekly lunch and learns to give them more insight into different parts of the business as well as skill building sessions. Each co-op and intern are encouraged to have weekly 1-on-1 check-ins with their manager to ensure their goals are aligned, and they are on the path to be successful at their time with Boston Beer. They are also required to do a final presentation that they present to the business leaders at the end of each cohort to demonstrate what they have learned.

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 jobs@bostonbeer.com for assistance.