Job Description:

• 1) Performs any combination of following tasks involved in winemaking: Lifts bulk grapes or dried pomace onto conveyor leading to crusher, disintegrator, or de-alcoholizer still, using pitchfork.

• 2) Connects portable pumps between tanks and turns valves to pump wine and alcohol from fermenting and fortifying tanks to tanks that cool wine to prevent further fermentation.

• 3) Pumps chilled wine into clarifying tanks and adds prescribed chemicals to wine.

• 4) Starts agitator that mixes solution to induce sedimentation of wine particles.

• 5) Pumps clarified wines through filtering tanks into tank to obtain blended wine.

• 6) Pumps wine through pasteurizer to prevent wine spoilage.

• 7) Pumps pasteurized wine through filtering device to collect sediment and precipitates and into tanks in bottling room.

• 8) Tends press that separates juice from pomace and starts conveyor that transports pomace to disintegrating machine.

• 9) Starts disintegrating machine and de-alcoholizer steam still that salvages alcohol from pomace, and starts conveyor that transports residue to storage.

• 10) Cleans and sterilizes fermenting and fortifying tanks and railroad tank cars, using airhose and soda ash.