Winemaker- Montezuma Winery Seneca Falls Location
Full Time • Seneca Falls
Benefits:
- 6 paid Holidays
- Life Insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Competitive salary
- Dental insurance
- Employee discounts
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Essential Job Functions:
Duties: All aspects of the wine operations including but not limited to:
Duties: All aspects of the wine operations including but not limited to:
- Establish and maintain grower relations
- Coordinate and supervise fruit/honey reception and processing
- Maintain detailed records of winemaking operations and data
- Development of adherence to standard operating procedures, safety protocols, and cGMP
- Adherence to TTB guidelines for wine production and reporting
- Training and supervision of winery staff
- Manage all aspects of premium wine production including but not limited to:
- Raw material processing
- Fermentation management
- Wine movements and additions
- Laboratory analysis/bench trials
- Sensory evaluation of wines in process and identification/mitigation of faults
- Centrifugation/filtration
- Stabilization
- Fining
- Packaging
- Maintenance, cleaning, and sanitation of winery equipment, vessels, and facility
- Tracking and maintaining inventory of winemaking and packaging materials
- Development of and adherence to production forecasts and deadlines
- Public relations, when necessary
Knowledge and Skills Required:
- Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) from 4-year college or university; and two to four years related experience/training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Certificates and licenses: - Valid Driver’s License
- Forklift certification
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands; reach with hands and arms, and taste or smell. The employee is frequently required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to work near moving mechanical parts. The employee is frequently exposed to wet or humid conditions (non-weather); and works in high, precarious places and risk of electric shock. The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outdoor weather conditions and vibration.
The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
Work Schedule:
This position requires you to be available days, nights, weekends and flexible during harvest period (extended hours when needed)
Compensation: $55,000.00 - $75,000.00 per year
A Martin Family History
For more than thirty years, George Martin had been a beekeeper. George, along with wife, Virginia and son Ed, maintained and built a honey production and pollination business which contained two thousand hives and took place in Maine, New York, Florida and South Carolina.
In 1998 with dropping honey prices and increasing costs the family now with son Bill, began niche marketing their honey. Bill had always dabbled in mead making and home brewing. The Martin Family applied for a farm winery license in 1999 and commercial production of honey wine began. Soon after Martin’s Honey Farm and Meadery in Sterling, New York was born.
In 2001, the Martin’s realized the importance of their location in the fruit belt of New York and decided to try their hand at making fruit wines. The concept of Montezuma Winery was then formed. Montezuma Winery quickly took off and was a great success, so much so that we moved the production facilities and gift shop to our 14,000 square foot building in Seneca Falls. Although we do produce high-quality grape wines, the focus of our product line is still towards fruit and honey wines.
Montezuma Winery, Martin’s Honey Farm and Meadery and Hidden Marsh Distillery have been awarded numerous awards including Gold, Double Gold, Best of Class, Best Fruit wine, and Commercial Mead Champion. Our wine list offers a range from dry to sweet and includes Riesling, Blueberry, Rhubarb and our most popular, Cranberry Bog.
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