Brewer resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what brewers actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most brewers should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Brewer with hands-on experience operating brewing systems from mashing through to packaging, with a strong grounding in food safety and quality control. Comfortable managing fermentation parameters, reading lab data, and adjusting recipes to hit target flavour and alcohol specifications. Works well under batch deadlines while keeping hygiene and compliance standards front of mind.
Key skills
- Brewing kettle and mash tun operation
- Fermentation tank and temperature control
- Wort and beer sample testing
- Food safety and hygiene practice
- Hydrometer and pH meter use
- Cleaning and sanitisation systems
- Batch data recording and analysis
- Regulatory compliance
- Process improvement
Experience: example bullet points
- Operated and monitored brewing vessels and fermentation tanks across multiple batches per week, maintaining consistent temperature and pressure control
- Measured and mixed ingredients against recipe specifications, reducing batch-to-batch variation in gravity readings
- Tested wort and beer samples using hydrometers and pH meters, flagging out-of-spec batches before packaging
- Cleaned and sanitised brewing equipment between batches in line with food safety procedures, maintaining zero contamination incidents over the review period
- Recorded batch data and adjusted fermentation parameters to bring finished beer within target flavour and alcohol ranges
- Supported process improvement reviews that shortened turnaround time between brew cycles
Education
Typically a Certificate III in Food Processing (Brewing) or Certificate IV in Process Manufacturing, or a Diploma of Food Science and Technology, often gained through a traineeship or by progressing from a process worker or production role within a brewery.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- HACCP
- Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ)
- Food safety program
- Excise licence (Australian Taxation Office)
- Craft brewery
- Wort analysis
- Mash tun
- Fermentation management
- Batch records
- Quality assurance
- Hydrometer
- pH meter
- Sanitation procedures
- Alcohol content testing
- Cellar operations
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.