Viticulture apprentice

As a viticuluture apprentice you will attend an apprenticeship programme through our preferrred apprenticeship provider.

Key responsibilities

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Working with our Vineyard team to oversee multiple young vineyards.

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Crop walks looking for diseases, pests, nutrient deficiencies, phenology, and general vineyard health and performance.

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Training, supervising and working with operatives during manual work, e.g. shoot selection, pruning and harvesting.

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Record keeping and reporting details of vineyard activities and management requirements to the Vineyard team.

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Working closely with the Vineyard Team to design timely, budget conscious and

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environmentally sustainable vineyard work programs.

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Continually improving the vineyard sustainability, both environmentally and financially through strong management techniques.

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As well as the core requirements, set out above, as a team player you will be expected to undertake other ad-hoc work and engage fully with other business activities.

Requirements

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Comfortable speaking with clients and staff.

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Fluent in spoken and written English.

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A strong work ethic and willingness to travel.

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Full clean driver's license and own transport.

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Good IT and mobile application skills.

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Working a 5 over 7 shift pattern.

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Flexibility on start and finish times upon request

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Work well in a team and be a team player.

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A flexible, can-do attitude and ability to embrace change.

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Attend and be part of weekly team meetings

Desirable

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3-years minimum cool-climate vineyard employment.

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Personable, passionate, confident and a desire to learn and advance your career.

Benefits

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Be part of an exciting and disruptive English Sparkling wine producer that has the ability and aspirations to become the largest in the UK

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Generous staff discount.

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Career development.

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Potential to earn a performance related bonus.

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PERKBOX, EAP, Doctor on call/ online service