COOP Research & Development Sensory SAPB

We are currently hiring a Sensory COOP for our Research & Development Sensory Production 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).

The Co-Op works with the sensory team at the Sam Adam's brewery in Breinigsville to run daily taste panels to approve products and ingredients. Co-Ops will also run additional testing on a weekly basis including difference tests, consumer testing in the tour center of the brewery, and descriptive panels to identify and describe flavor profiles of products. The position is also responsible for maintaining the product and ingredient databases and keeping the sensory 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 in to 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. Additionally, you will be working closely with the brewing and research and development teams to schedule testing and go about your daily tasks.

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

What You'll Brew:

• How to set-up internal tastings including descriptive panel and alignment tasting panels from start to finish
• Gathering data and analyzing to find compelling information needed to communicate to stakeholders
• Manage small, medium, and large datasets, databases, and dashboards
• Support sensory technologists/sensory team to meet project timelines and goals
• Reviewing survey links prior to launching to ensure the content programmed matches original documents created
• Opportunities to run your own study using our consumers who come through the tour center (Depend on restrictions/no restrictions)
• Ongoing research in sensory for alcoholic beverages and/or opportunities for personal research study

Best if you are interested in:

• Consumer Product Testing
• Data analysis and interpretation for use in product development
• Consumer psychology and consumption behavior

What Ingredients You'll Bring:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Enrolled in a 2+ year Food Science B.S or M.S program (also acceptable, statistics/data science, psychology, sociology program)
• Must be able to commit to a 6-month long internship
• 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

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.