Winemaking Intern - Woodbridge (R&D)
An industry leader, The Wine Group is one of the world's foremost producers of award-winning wines across more than 60 wine brands and many winery facilities in California, New York, and Australia. Headquartered in Livermore, California, TWG is an industry innovator when it comes to developing, marketing, and selling wine brands beloved by consumers around the world, including Cupcake, Franzia, Benziger, Imagery, Tribute, 7 Deadly, Cooper & Thief, The Dreaming Tree, Charles Smith Wines, and more. The Wine Group believes in producing wine using sustainable and earth-friendly practices to foster healthy land and agriculture for generations to come. The company demonstrates environmental stewardship through its commitment to clean energy and by ensuring that all its owned vineyards are certified sustainable or biodynamic. To learn more, please visit: www.thewinegroup.com.
JOB SUMMARY
This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a passion for making high quality wine. This position works directly with the Winemaking Team and will be an integral winemaking support position, helping to facilitate daily harvest winemaking responsibilities. As our Winemaking Intern, you will monitor fermentations, generate data, and produce reports which will aid our team in making accurate and timely decisions.
This is a temporary assignment, generally between July through November. Schedules are determined on an as needed basis to keep up with grape processing. This may include weekend work, and overtime
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Conduct daily fermentation monitoring including tasting, evaluating analysis, and managing tank temperatures.
- Visit vineyards and assist in evaluation of the fruit prior to harvesting.
- Work with winemakers and cellar leads on pressing, grape receival, facilitating and prioritizing workload.
- Prepare fermentation samples and perform analysis on Spectrophotometer, upload to Wine Xray.
- Collect data from the winery press systems to generate white yield data.
- Under direction of winemaker, generate work orders for grape and wine processing.
- Perform bench scale additive trials.
- Taste and evaluate produced wines with Winemaking team after harvest.
- Assist Winemakers as needed.
QUALIFICATIONS
- High school diploma or GED equivalent required.
- Ability to work from June through the end of November.
- Ability to work various shifts including weekends and overtime.
- Recent graduate or pursuing a degree in Enology and/or Viticulture or related field.
- Excellent organizational and communication skills – oral and written.
- Experience in computer applications (Excel, Word, and Outlook).
- Must be at least 21 years of age.
- Previous harvest experience in winery production.
- Self-starter, willingness to take initiative.
- Able to work independently with a minimum of supervision.
- Agile mindset-harvest is fast paced and changes gears often.
- Well-developed wine tasting skills.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
- Working conditions in certain areas of the winery are cold, warm, wet, slippery and noisy. Involves exposure to loud noises, fumes, toxic chemicals, near moving mechanical parts and lift truck traffic.
- Frequent walking, standing, sitting, stooping, kneeling, crouch or crawl, going up and down stairs and ladders.
- Must be able to move up to 55 lbs.
- Must have a valid driver's license.
- Occasional travel with ability to work weekends and overtime.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
COMPENSATION
- Hourly Pay Range Posted: $19.00 – 29.50/hr.
- Actual compensation will be based on factors such as experience; skills, knowledge, and abilities; education; and other position related factors.
At The Wine Group, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristic protected by law.
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