Vineyard Worker

Work site environment

• Outdoors
• Viticulture
• Wet/damp
• Dusty
• Hot
• Cold/refrigerated

Work setting

• Staff accommodation provided
• Rural area
• Remote location
• Relocation costs not covered by employer

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Apply the technique of hoeing between the row
• Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
• Clear fields of wood and stones
• Cultivate on vertical farming system
• Guide growing shoots into optimal development positions
• Hand harvesting vegetables
• Maintain and manage growth of vines, vine canopy and grapes
• Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
• Remove manually all suckers and water sprouts
• Tie and secure plants
• Weeding
• Harvest crops
• Cut horticultural crops

Experience and specialization

Type of crops

• Grapes

Additional information

Transportation/travel information

• Own transportation

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Repetitive tasks
• Handling heavy loads
• Physically demanding
• Hand-eye co-ordination
• Ability to distinguish between colours
• Attention to detail
• Standing for extended periods
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Walking