Job Description
Job Description:
About Foley Family Wines
Established by Bill Foley in 1996, Foley Family Wines is a portfolio of highly acclaimed wines and spirits from some of the world’s greatest estates. The company owns more than 24 wineries and a distillery, each with its distinct style, legacy, and approach to hospitality.
At The Four Graces we aim to make rich, complex wines that showcase the quality of our fruit and expression of our vineyard sites. We source grapes from our four estate vineyards situated in different AVAs within the Willamette Valley. In addition to working with a diverse set of vineyard sites, The Four Graces utilizes aspects of both traditional techniques and modern technology in winemaking, offering potential for plenty of learning opportunities. We’re a small, passionate, dedicated team and we strive to ensure maximum efficiency, safety, and wine quality. The harvest cellar team will be involved in a variety of cellar duties, with an opportunity to help sample in the vineyard if desired. In addition to the general cellar positions, we have a hybrid cellar and lab position open for one individual with laboratory experience.
Applicants must be available without interruption from September through mid-November and willing to work overtime (early mornings, evenings, weekends, swing shifts). ** In addition to the $500 sign-on bonus paid at the end of your internship, we also provide some meals! **
Job Summary
Previous experience is valued, but we’re willing to train the right motivated individuals. The ideal applicant is dependable, organized, enthusiastic, detail oriented, and self-motivated. You should possess a positive attitude, sense of humor, communication skills, and interest in working on a dynamic team to make great wine in a fast-paced work environment.
Roles and Responsibilities of Cellar workers:
The harvest cellar team will assist the production team in the following areas:
• Winery sanitation
• Grape sampling, receiving, crushing and pressing
• Fermentation cap management
• Racking and barrel filling
Lab/Cellar position applicants should have a basic understanding of wine chemistry (pH, TA, brix) as well as some education or work experience in a laboratory setting.
This person will be responsible for cellar tasks, and well as:
• Daily fermentation tracking (brix and temps)
• Additions and inoculations
• Collection and analysis of tank and barrel samples
• Lab calibration and recordkeeping
• Data entry
• Maintaining a tidy and organized workspace in the lab
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
• Must be reliable, punctual, and engaged
• Accurately follow and complete work instructions
• The ability to work both independently and as a team member
• Understand and comply with all safety requirements
• Perform the physical labor necessary - lift up to 50 lbs, work in various temperatures
• Effective communication skills
• Ability to read, write and speak English
• Must have a positive attitude
Experience and Qualifications:
• Basic math skills
• Willingness to work long hours including weekends and swing shifts as needed
• Previous cellar and forklift experience is a plus but not required
• Candidates must be organized and detail oriented
• Current driver’s license and an acceptable driver record for our insurance carrier
• Must be 21 years of age or older
Company Core Values:
Teamwork – Be a Spirited Partner
Commitment – Crush Every Day
Quality – Good vs. Grape: It’s All in The Details
Integrity – It Takes a Community
Safety – Tend the Vines
Entrepreneurship – Love the Wine You’re With
Fun! - Smile! You Have Purple Teeth!
Foley Family Wines provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law.
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Temporary work, Work experience placement, Internship, Local area, Relocation package, Day shift, Afternoon shift, Early shift