Having cemented our position as one of the South West’s most established breweries, Wiper and True is a multi-award winning brewery. In 2024, we were awarded the prestigious Brewery of The Year award, and we can continue to move through an exciting period of growth. Today, Wiper and True has two operational sites, each with differing demands from a facilities and maintenance perspective.

The Role

You will join an exciting team whose focus is to maintain and develop the buildings and grounds of one of the most renowned craft breweries in the country. Your role will span across both of our two sites: Wiper and True’s iconic brewery and taproom in Old Market, Bristol, and our characterful Barrel Store venue, in the heart of St. Werburghs. You will also be instrumental in helping develop new sites that will be added to our portfolio over the coming years. This role is not responsible for brewery production equipment and maintenance.

You will report to our Facilities and Sustainability Manager.

You will be responsible for maintaining the best facilities in the South West, by supporting the management, maintenance and health and safety of the sites, to ensure a safe and productive workspace for all. Alongside this you will assist in installation and infrastructure of exciting new projects throughout the business.

Objectives

• To be responsible for maintaining the smooth running of all facilities with safe, efficient and functioning working sites for all staff and visitors including taproom clientele. This does not include the brewery production equipment maintenance.

• To assist in and support the smooth running and delivery of new projects, fundamental to the growth of Wiper and True, for example; taproom development and infrastructure upgrades.

Key Responsibilities

• Regular weekly meetings with Facilities and Sustainability Manager

• Attending regular Health and Safety meetings

• Conducting regular health and safety checks throughout the site, including fire alarms, emergency lighting, fire escapes and legionella risk.

• Supporting our venues teams directly by leading weekly H&S and maintenance meetings with the management teams of both venues

• Managing maintenance tasks and conducting regular maintenance of the building, fabric repair and maintenance, and booking in specialist contractors when needed.

Maintenance

• Conducting maintenance when required, including conducting preventative maintenance to reduce issues and down time facility infrastructure. Including but not limited to: carpentry, decoration, basic plumbing, fabric repair, fixing equipment

• Allocating tasks in-house or to external contractors

• Categorise the maintenance priority list based on need, hazard/risk, resource and availability/capacity

• To help manage the building maintenance schedule for the site, including downpipes and gutters, fire extinguishers, entrance ways, general wear and tear on facility infrastructure.

• On call out-of-hours, to deal with security and fire alarms

Contractors

• Support and first point of contact for the external contracted cleaning teams.

• Help organise attendance of contractors in the event of more complex facility issues, including plumbing, electrics, drainage. Liaison for regular and ad-hoc contractors.

• Ensuring inductions are conducted and RAMS where necessary are signed off.

• In charge of relationship with contracted waste company, dealing with issues and improving recycling rates.

Health and Safety

• Completing and maintaining checks and tests on health and safety platform (currently Safesmart) - including fire drills, equipment maintenance (not relating to production)

• Participating in and addressing issues raised in the weekly H&S meetings

• Assist in workplace risk assessments

• Management of Pest Control company

• Reviewing and scheduling bi/annual compliance works, ensuring we are up to date: Fire Risk Assessments, Fire Extinguisher etc. and follow up on any actions from these.

• Ensuring delegated due diligence checks (to venues teams) are being undertaken

• Ensuring issues raised by site risk assessments are communicated to relevant responsible persons and actioned within the given timeframe

• Writing, reviewing, updating or consulting on general site SOPs, risk assessments, SSW practices e.g. building security, evacuation plans

Development Projects Facilities Support

• You will be instrumental in the implementation of infrastructure development within Wiper and True as our business grows. Including the installation of fabric, new equipment, fixtures and fittings for projects

• Collaborate with relevant departments involved with these projects, communicating and updating as the project evolves on the facility aspects

• Departmental project support as required pre-project, most often in research and development, finding of contractors, and quotes.

• Delivering site inductions for new contractors attending to complete work.

Skills & Experience Requirements

• Exceptional organisational and time management skills

• An ability to juggle multiple tasks and projects simultaneously without compromising on attention to detail.

• Excellent communication skills, both with internal team members and external contractors

• Competent in general maintenance of the fabric of the buildings. To include but not limited to, carpentry, decoration, basic plumbing & electrics, fabric repair, fixing equipment.

• An ability to work independently, but also to know when it’s time to call in support on a task/decision.

• Motivated and enjoy working on complex projects

Why come and work for us?
Wiper and True is a Brewery dedicated to making Beautiful Beer and providing an extraordinary place to work and visit. Our employees enjoy a work culture that promotes trust, inclusivity, team-work and a continuous drive to improve and support each other.

Wiper and True is a registered Real Living Wage Employer and our benefits include pension, cycle to work and tech schemes, beer and merchandise allowance and family and friends discounts on products and at our taproom and opportunities for continuous professional development.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities.

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, ideally 8am to 4pm but flexibility around this will be considered.

Salary: £28,000.00 to £32,000.00 per annum, depending on qualifications and experience.

How to apply

Please click on the link above and follow the instructions on our vacancies page and you will be able to upload your CV. Please also include a cover letter to tell us, in approximately 300 words, why you think you would be the perfect person for Wiper and True and this role.

If you require a different format to help with your application, just get in touch with jamey@wiperandtrue.com.

If you require any adjustments to be made to the application process to ensure there are no barriers in the process for your application, please get in touch and we can look at what accommodations we can make with you.

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