Seasonal Bottling and Harvest Positions (Wine Jobs: Vineyards & Cellars )

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  Patricia Green Cellars (http://patriciagreencellars.com)

  Newberg, Oregon

Both are positions we are looking to fill. We will need 1-2 people for bottling and a total of 4-5 people for harvest.

It’s sorting fruit and cleaning up equipment and floors all the time. Forklift driving experience is a major plus. Previous winery experience and familiarity and experience with pumps, electric pallet jacks, presses and the like is also a plus.

We do manage our fermentations by doing a daily pigeage (foot treading in the fermenters). This is strenuous work that requires upper body strength, stamina, a relative lack of modesty, good hygiene, determination, generally positive human energy and skin that’s either tough or well-taken care of.

What Patricia Green Cellars offers in the whole deal: This is a progressive and team-oriented operation. The work environment is pretty low stress even if there will be days and stretches of days that are pretty intense. We will hopefully end up processing around 300 tons of fruit, most of it will be Pinot Noir from some of the best, oldest and most historic vineyards in Oregon. This should be around 6 weeks of work sort of give or take a week on both ends of harvest with the additional two month of bottling for 1-2 of the crew. You will work with an extremely experienced core group that will provide training, direction, motivation and hopefully inspiration.

What we don’t provide: We don’t have guest quarters or a winery house. We don’t necessarily have any transportation although that is a little flexible depending on things.

What we expect of you: You will have been vaccinated for Covid-19. Everyone here is vaccinated. This is not an optional situation. If you either don’t want to get vaccinated or don’t want to disclose your status that is your business, but we won’t be hiring you. You can physically and mentally handle the amount and intensity of work. During harvest this is 70 hours/week on your feet doing work that ranges from monotonous to strenuous, during bottling it is 8-10 hours/day of repetitive motion and lifting.

Bottling will begin in the first week of July and we will have 4 solid weeks between July 1 and August 31 of bottling with some lighter weeks/workless weeks mixed in. While it is basically impossible to predict when harvest will exactly begin at this point we are expecting, based on current trajectory, for harvest to begin sometime in the first 15-20 days of September but that is a wait and see sort of situation at this juncture.

The pay ranges from $16-$20/hour depending upon experience, there is time and a half pay after 40 hours. This will be 7 days/week of 8-12 hour days. We don’t pull over-night shifts. We don’t work past 12 hours/day other than in crisis management situations which we hope to avoid. Breakfast, lunch, snacks and beverages are provided daily. Dinner is provided when necessary.

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