Job Description:

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

Key responsibilities 

• Working with our Vineyard team to oversee multiple young vineyards.  

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

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

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

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

• environmentally sustainable vineyard work programs. 

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

• 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 

• Comfortable speaking with clients and staff. 

• Fluent in spoken and written English.  

• A strong work ethic and willingness to travel. 

• Full clean driver's license and own transport. 

• Good IT and mobile application skills.  

• Working a 5 over 7 shift pattern. 

• Flexibility on start and finish times upon request 

• Work well in a team and be a team player. 

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

• Attend and be part of weekly team meetings

Desirable:

• 3-years minimum cool-climate vineyard employment. 

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

Benefits

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

• Generous staff discount. 

• Career development. 

• Potential to earn a performance related bonus.  

• PERKBOX, EAP, Doctor on call/ online service