Cellar Operations

Usual entry point
- Cellar Hand
What would help you get a job
- Any previous experience in a winery
- Written and verbal communication skills
- Mathematical aptitude
- Certificate 1 in Food Processing(wine)
- Forklift licence
- Understanding how pumps work
- Understanding how fermentation works
- Any WHS or food handling training or experience
- Work in Confined Spaces Certificate
What type of work
- Cleaning and sanitising tanks, pumps, hoses barrels and other equipment
- Operating equipment to crush grapes and to clarify, filter wine crushers, centrifuges, filters and presses
- Operating pumping equipment
- Making additions to wine on instruction from winemaker to aid blending and fermentation
- Wine transfers
What Type of training
- Forklift licence
- Work in Confined Spaces Certificate
- WHS certificates
- Certificate in Food Processing (Wine)
Opportunities for promotion
- Cellar supervisor
- Leading Hand Winery
- Production Manager
- Cellar Manager
Related jobs in the field
- Laboratory Technician
- Assistant Winemaker
- Winemaker
What would help you succeed
- Experience as a Cellar Hand and completing certificates in Food Processing (Wine)
- Leadership or Frontline Management Certificates
- HACCP or ISO Accreditation
Additional benefits in the work
- Opportunity to travel
- Becoming a Winemaker could lead to own wine business