quinta-feira, 26 de junho de 2008

US: Enólogo Assistente

Job Title: Winemaker Assistant       Salary: N/A / Yearly
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia     Type: Full-Time
Zip Code: 22903    
Description:
Under general supervision, supports all activities of the winemaking process. This role encompasses responsibility for influencing the growing of grapes (raw materials stage) through the quality of wine delivered to the consumer.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Responsible for tasting wines to conduct evaluation and recommendation of treatments to improve wine quality.
• Assists all winemaker’s and operations staff with delivering the highest quality wine to the consumer across all brands and wine varieties.
• Manages wine process operations as assigned including, but not limited to management of: wine temperature, sulfur dioxide, and acidulation.
• Supports all winegrowing, winemaking, brand winemaking, and wine processing operations at assigned location(s).
• Conducts Fining Trials and manages certain winemaking and wine processing trials and experiments, including reporting results.
• Responsible for the completion and success of the trials and experiments.
• Assists with management of grape receiving and wine production operations during harvest, as assigned. • Assists with certain aspects of the wine grapes: grape assessment, harvest, and analysis.
• Maintains wines within internal “gold standard” specifications from grape to bottle.
• Participates in wine tasting at all levels of the winemaking process.
• Contributes to the continuous improvement of the winemaking processes and procedures.
• Must maintain satisfactory attendance, to include timeliness.
• Responsible for understanding and complying with applicable quality, environmental and safety regulatory considerations. If accountable for the work of others, responsible for ensuring their understanding and compliance.
• This job description reflects management's assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

May train and mentor lab technicians and/or Enologist's.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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