Ben Bonham

Experience

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  Croxfords Catering

  Jun 2008 - Aug 2019

  Front Of House Manager (ad hoc)

  Lead and work in a team to provide a professional catering service to clients in a high-pressure environment. Typical duties include managing front of house staff, food preparation, waiting on clients (including royalty and members of parliament), cleaning, and training of new staff members.

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  LJ Construction Carpentry Contractors Ltd

  Jun 2010 - Sept 2015

  Commercial Assistant

  Based in the commercial team helping to maintain efficiency and consistency in the pricing of new housing developments: aiding the improvement of specialised software systems, sub-managing and complete subcontractor wages input and reconciliation, and analyse financial documents to find errors in pricing/input. Responsible for the creation of excel workbooks to improve the accuracy of input, reduce the time needed for completion of specific tasks and prevent monetary loss through human error.

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  POLO RALPH LAUREN

  Nov 2012 - Dec 2013

  Cashier Administrator

  Responsible for delegating daily duties to all cashiers, organising a structured break timetable, cashing up the daily takings and commencing investigations into any loss or gain of money.

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  Kombucha Kat

  Nov 2017 - May 2018

  Lead Brewer

  Involved in all aspects in the production of the fermented beverage, kombucha. This included cleaning, brewing, setting up fermentations, monitoring fermentation progression and other process parameters, taste testing, bottling, packaging, developing process aids/procedures and research into other fermented beverages.

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  Vocation Brewery

  Aug 2019 - Jun 2021

  Key responsibilities• First contact for any site or plant issues.• Rapidly responding to, troubleshooting, and fixing/escalating any issues encountered • Liaise with brewing, cellaring and packaging teams to monitor and adjust schedules during delays.• Ensure site adherence to health and safety protocols.• Consult directly with contractors during commissioning work to aid with fault finding.• Completing stock takes of raw materials and laboratory consumables• Monitor weekly and monthly KPIs and highlight any points of potential improvement/concern.• Brewing and cellaring Show less Main duties• Monitoring fermentation• Green beer processing (e.g. attemperation, fermentation additions, yeast cropping, etc.)• Beer centrifugation and carbonation• Vessel CIP and CIP verification• Beer analysis including cell counts, pH, gravity, colour, bitterness, haze, dissolved oxygen concentration, carbon dioxide concentration and sensory analysis.• Process optimisation.• General brewery maintenance and cleaning.Other duties• Cask and keg cleaning and filling Show less

  • Shift Leader

    Jul 2020 - Jun 2021

  • Brewery Operator

    Aug 2019 - Jul 2020
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  Hawkstone Brewery

  Apr 2022 - now

  • Technical Director

    Jun 2023 - now

  • Production Team Lead

    Apr 2022 - Jun 2023