Harvest Cellar Worker (Wine Jobs: Vineyards & Cellars )

Full Time

  Inglenook

  Rutherford, California

Job Summary

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  1.  Cellar Duties (95%):
  • Barrels: transport, wash, fill, empty, top, identify accurately on work order
  • Sanitize tanks, hoses, press, pumps, and crush equipment
  • Inspect, measure partial tanks, gas headspaces
  • Follow Safety Procedures: Confined Space, tank entry, fall protection, respiratory, slips and falls
  • Measure, weigh, and make additions of chemicals
  • Clean floors with the pressure washer
  • Clean tanks, walls & crush equipment
  • Operate pumps, hoses, barrel steamer, barrel washer, ozone machine, crush equipment
  • Evaluate fruit quality on the sorting table
  • Check oxygen levels in tanks
  • Pump over and punch down fermenting tanks
  • Removal of pomace from fermentation tanks
  1. Laboratory Duties (5%):
  • Obtain samples requested from production staff
  • Experimental monitoring and report
  • Take samples of grapes, juice or wine as requested from bins, barrels, tanks, or bottles.
  • Record analysis correctly
  • Alert supervisor to any abnormal results or those that might risk wine quality
  • Monitor equipment, calibrate, notify supervisor if out of specifications
  • Understand MSDS information sheets, hazardous material handling, wear PPE
  • Respect all safety policies and procedures; insure correct operating status of safety equipment
  • Weigh, measure, using scale, volumetric pipettes or flasks, graduated cylinders

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Job Requirements: detail-oriented, curious, scientific perspective, open minded, good relationship and teamwork ability

Education/Experience: BS Degree in Fermentation Science or related International equivalent preferred; or up to three years related experience or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. A minimum of one year’s cellar experience is preferred.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:   

  • Analytical Skills - Ability to use thinking and reasoning to solve a problem.
  • Autonomy - Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
  • Communication, Oral - Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word.
  • Creative - Ability to think in such a way as to produce a new concept or idea.
  • Deductive Reasoning - Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems.
  • Detail Oriented - Ability to pay attention to the minute details of a project or task.
  • Honesty / Integrity - Ability to be truthful and be seen as credible in the workplace.
  • Initiative - Ability to make decisions or take actions to solve a problem or reach a goal.
  • Reliability - The trait of being dependable and trustworthy.
  • Safety Awareness and Accountability - Ability to identify and correct conditions that affect employee safety, be responsible for personal safety and safety of others, adhere to company policies and procedures.

Physical Demands:

N (Not Applicable) - Activity is not applicable to this occupation

O (Occasionally) - Occupation requires this activity up to 33% of the time (0-2.5+hrs/day)

F (Frequently) - Occupation requires this activity from 33% - 66% of the time (2.5-5.5+ hrs/day)

C(Constantly) - Occupation requires this activity more than 66% of the time (5.5+ hrs/day)

Other Physical Requirements

Vision (Near, Distance)

Sense of Sound (i.e. Machinery/tractor sounds)

Sense of Touch

Ability to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) (Steel toe boots, safety glasses)

Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, and outside weather conditions.  The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; risk of electrical shock; and vibration.  The noise level in the work environment is frequently loud.  Employee works around dangerous, automatic machinery.

Other:

  • Must be certified to drive/operate a forklift; in house training and certification will be completed as necessary to comply with Cal-OSHA regulations.
  • Valid U.S. Driver’s License and clean DMV record required (if applicable)
  • Forklift License or knowledge is a preferred but not essential
  • English and Spanish skills preferred (Bilingual)
  • Wine knowledge preferred
  • Must be able to lift and carry heavy objects of 40 pounds (1 case of wine)

How To Apply

https://www.inglenook.com/careers/job/oVL34fwx

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