Cellar Worker (Wine Jobs: Vineyards & Cellars )

Full Time

  Inglenook

  Rutherford, California

Job Summary

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:  (List the primary duties and responsibilities that are a critical part of this job.  For each major responsibility, indicate the estimated percentage of time spent.) 

  1. Cellar/Harvest Duties: (70%)
  • Receive and weigh grapes
  • Transport bins of grapes using fork-lift
  • Sterilize tanks, pumps, hoses, and crush equipment
  • Perform pump-overs and punch-downs as directed.
  • Make additions, sample tanks for QC
  • Empty tanks of pomace
  • Barrels: inventory, transport, wash, fill, empty, top monthly, identify, record location
  • Inspect, measure partial tanks, gas headspace.
  • S02 additions to wine in barrel
  • Safety Procedures: Confined space, tank entry, harness safety, respiratory, slip and fall
  • Measure, weigh, additions and cleaning supplies.
  • Cleans floors with pressure washer
  • Lifting of heavy objects, empty barrels and cellar supplies, hoses, buckets of wine
  1. Bottling: (10%)
  • Place empty bottles onto bottling line, inspect labels and foils, supply bottling truck with bottling supplies.
  • Lift 36 pounds (one case of full bottles) from line to pallet.
  • Bend at the waist, twisting of the waist.
  • Squatting and lifting a case of wine, carrying 40 pounds ten feet and place on pallet.
  • Outdoor environment with noise protection, eye protection required.
  1. Equipment Operations: (20%)
  • Operating of equipment on property to include:
    • Fork-lift
    • Crusher
    • Press
    • Pumps and hoses
    • Ozone machine
    • Steamer machine
    • Barrel filling machine
    • Small bottling line, hand bottling equipment

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Job Requirements:

Education/Experience: High school education or equivalent; or up to five years related experience or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:  

  • Accountability - Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.
  • Ambition - The drive to achieve personal advancement
  • Autonomy - Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
  • Communication, Oral and Written - Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken and written word.
  • Creative - Ability to think in such a way as to produce a new concept or idea.
  • 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)

Stand – O, Walk – O, Sit – O, Handling/Fingering – O, Reaching Outward – O, Reaching Above Shoulder – O, Climb – N, Crawl – N, Squat or Kneel –O, Bend – O, Working at the computer - O

Lift/Carry

10 lbs or Less, F

11 – 20 lbs, F

21 – 50 lbs, F

51 – 100 lbs, O

Over 100 lbs, N

Push/Pull

12 lbs or Less, F

13-25 lbs, F

26-40 lbs, F

41-100 lbs, O

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)
  • 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)
  • Respect all safety policies and procedures, insure correct operating status of safety equipment

How To Apply

https://www.inglenook.com/careers/job/o8MG5fwp

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