Vineyard Manager - Mount View, Australia - Tallavera Grove Vineyard

Description

Reporting to the property owners and consultant viticulturalist, this role involves the day-to-day operation of the vineyard and management of the property on which it is located.

• Experience operating vineyard machinery (or similar) is essential.
• Experience maintaining agricultural machinery and general property maintenance would also be desirable.
• Detailed viticultural knowledge would be highly valued but not essential due to ongoing liaison with our consultant viticulturalist.
• Demonstrated ability to work unsupervised (please provide references)
• Broader farming experience in other agricultural industries will also be highly valued.

• Full Time Monday to Friday, 8 hours a day including lunch break.
• Certain aspects of this role may need to be conducted outside of regular hours when weather and other conditions are suitable.

• Spraying fungicide and undervine herbicide, including the ordering of chemicals and farm supplies
• Slashing
• Foliage trimming
• Irrigation repairs and maintenance,
• Trellis maintenance
• Organisation and management of crews (who undertake tasks such as desuckering, wire dropping/lifting, pruning, hand picking and other manual tasks).
• Harvest support (including organising/booking the harvester, forklift hire and chaser drivers if required)
• Ordering of PID water supply and carrying out irrigation schedules
• Ensure assets including plant and equipment are kept secure and in good order and repair
• General property maintenance
• Record keeping (diary of vineyard operations undertaken, employee hours and spray records)

• Valid driver's license
• Chem Cert (can be acquired prior to spray season)
• Forklift license (can be acquired prior to vintage)

• We encourage the vineyard manager to attend relevant local viticultural training and education (e.g. workshops, field days and more formal training).