Cellar Hand

Our new Cellar Hand will be able to competently perform tasks in maintaining cellar hygiene, safe chemical handling, preparing, and making additions to wine, and have an understanding between centrifugal and positive displacement pumps. They will be able to safely transfer product including:

- Wine, Must, and Ferments
- Racking
- Blending
- Flow meter
- Heat Exchange
- Oak filling and emptying
- Road tankers

Throughout Mollydooker's vintage operations, they will display competency in the following winery operations:

- Crushing
- Pressing
- Cap Management
- Tank Cleaning
- Barrel Work
- Sound understanding of ferments

Other duties included within the Cellar Hand responsibilities include:

- Barrel washing
- Full understanding of cellar notes
- High Risk Forklift licensed and a competent operator
- Confined space procedures
- Setting up and maintaining the running of the Spit Water Barrel Washer
- Filling of LPG bottles
- Filling items with diesel such as forklift etc.
- Competency in performing any task in the Mollydooker Winery, according to Mollydooker procedures, without supervision
- Effective liaison with Cellar Manager, Winery Management and Cellar Team Leaders

Job Requirements

To be considered for this position you must
- one year previous experience as a cellar hand
- have the physical fitness and the ability to lift weight - e.g. lift and roll a barrel, lift and walk out hoses, walk up and down stairs on a regular basis, carry buckets etc.
- be legally entitled to work in Australia..
- current high risk forklift licence is advantageous