WINEMAKER (Wine Jobs: Vineyards & Cellars )

Full Time

  Australian Vintage Ltd

  Mildura & Murray, Victoria

  • Customer focussed and innovation driven wine company
  • Great team environment & working culture
  • Competitive benefits offering including 26 weeks of paid primary carer parental leave

About AVL:

Australian Vintage Ltd (AVL) is an ASX listed multi award winning Australian wine company with a strong global reach. AVL’s portfolio consists of the McGuigan, Tempus Two, Barossa Valley Wine Company and Nepenthe Brands amongst others.

At AVL we believe in making the world a smaller place through sharing good times.

Championing a fully-integrated wine business model, the breadth of AVL’s capabilities extends to vineyard management, premium winemaking, large scale winemaking, low/no alcohol winemaking, grape juice concentrate production, wine packaging, marketing and distribution.

We are proud that our Buronga Hill Winery and Merbein Packaging Facility are 100% powered by wind and solar energy. Specifically, 30% coming from solar panels on site at the Buronga Hill winery and the balance coming from offsite wind and solar parks through our partner Flow Power.

About the role:

We have an exciting opportunity for a qualified Winemaker or a studying Assistant Winemaker to join our Buronga Hill Winemaking team based in the Mildura region.

The efficient and well-equipped Buronga Hill Winery has capacity to process everything from small premium fruit parcels to large scale winemaking and has technological capabilities such as Spinning Cone Column, Flash Detente and Electrodialysis.

Reporting to the Senior Winemakers (Mildura based) your primary duties will include:

  • Vintage grape and juice processing.
  • Ferment monitoring and processing.
  • Blend determination, fining and maturation.
  • Preparation of wines for bottle.
  • Production planning and scheduling.
  • Adherence to market compliance and specifications.
  • Sharing of ideas around innovation and efficiencies.

We are looking for:

  • Formal qualifications: Tertiary qualifications or currently working towards the completion of Tertiary qualifications in Wine Science (or equivalent) is essential.
  • Communication skills: We are looking for someone with strong communication skills who has the ability to build positive relationships within our business.
  • A team player: We are looking for someone who thrives in a team environment where collaboration is at the forefront of day-to-day operations.
  • Computer literacy: The ability to demonstrate sounds computer skills is essential. Previous experience using Ezy Wine is advantageous.

AVL Benefits:

  • Primary carer parental leave offering 26 weeks paid leave
  • Secondary carers parental leave offering 4 weeks paid leave
  • Mental health and wellbeing training and support
  • Annual wine allowance
  • Options to purchase additional annual leave
  • Sabbaticals and career breaks
  • Continuation of superannuation while on paid and unpaid parental leave

Applications close: March 21st 2022

How To Apply

https://careers.australianvintage.com.au/job-details/query/winemaker/in/mildura-andamp-murray/8522561/

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