Harvest Cellar Hand - Niagara Falls, Canada - Arterra Wines Canada

Arterra Wines Canada

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Niagara Falls, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Job Description:

As Canada's original estate winery, we're an industry pioneer committed to the production of premium wines made from quality grapes grown in Canada for over 40 years. With wineries in NiagaraontheLake, Ontario and the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, we're leading the way with our full collection of world renowned, awardwinning VQA table wines and Icewines crafted by progressive, artisanal winemakers. We are currently recruiting Cellar Intern (6 positions)

Start date:
Beginning of September 2023 thru to November 2023

Duties/Responsibilities:
- _ Crushing and Receiving grapes_- we average 1200 tons a year. You will see medium scale grape receiving and processing, running the crusher/de-stemmer and receiving hopper.
- _ Additions_- will be a huge task, you will gain experience with multiple types of additions for juice, must, ferments and possibly finished wines.
- _ Inoculations_

You will be ask to aid in or complete inoculations with proper training and guidance from our staff.

- _ Pump overs /pulse air_

We maintain a daily cap management sheet, we use a pulse air system for that majority of our reds, manual pump over, automatic punchdown tanks, rotating fermenters and manual punchdowns in bins.

- _ Cleaning_

Cleaning is a huge part of making great wine We strive to keep everything as clean as possible always. You will be trained in cleaning various sized tanks, totes, bins, crushing equipment, barrels, and floors.

- _ Barrel work_

You could be involved in barrel maintenance, sulphur, cleaning, rehydrating, filling and storing of red/white barrels. We still manage quite a large barrel room. Could be involved in receiving/ preparing new barrels for production.

- _ Daily fermentation checks_ - you will be involved in checking tank temps, barrel ferment checks, red fermenters and bins and reporting to the winemaking team any issues and concerns.
- _ Questions_

We encourage anyone to ask questions, you will be working alongside some experienced people, we want you to gain something out of it. No question is too silly, we will always answer.

Eligibility Requirements:

Highly motivated to work hard, enthusiastic and passionate about wine
Good communication skills and ability to work with a team
Willing to learn basic winemaking techniques and procedures
Need to be punctual, organized, willing to go above and beyond
Driver's license, and own transportation required
Any lab skills are an asset
Fluent in English, 2nd language is an asset.
Forklift license an asset

Other Considerations:
Some competitive advantages of this winery or important details to note

We have a few pieces of newer wine technology student will get to see and possibly trained on.
Large 8 membrane crossflow filter
Juclas ceramic disk lees filter 10m2 unit

Compensation Information:
(this can be contingent on applicant's experience)

Harvest schedule we run a split shift during the harvest, Days and Afternoons, shifts will be 810 hours depending on work load that day. We do pay overtime after 44 hours