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Title Vineyard Technician with Living Arrangement
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Category Wine
Created 2009-08-23
Owner artisan
Job Type Vineyard Worker
Location Napa, CA
Company Name  
Education Requirements Degree in Viticulture and Horticulture
Experience Requirements 5+ years
Job Requirements Strong Leadership skills
Description Mapping and preparing field for planting new vineyards, New vineyards establishment and development.

Pest and disease monitoring. Modeling spraying and fertilization programs

Hiring and instructing new and existing workers for chemical and work safety.

Communicating with vineyard foreman, supervisors and administration. Resolving conflicts. Managing chemical storage, field sampling, field experimentation. Collecting and entering data into computer.

Negotiating with wineries, monitoring grape ripening and determining picking time. Quality control, weather station service, working with field data and forecasting pest and disease management.

Vine training and canopy management. Determining vigor and capacity of vines adjusting the amount of pruning/pruning formulas/, vigor control, rootstocks and clones, irrigation, machinery and equipment inspection and maintenance.

Vineyard evaluation and trouble shooting, vineyard abandonment, erosion control, cover crop. Modeling vineyard annual plan and budget, record keeping.

Pruning, shoot thinning, spraying, canopy maintenance and repairing.
Compensation DOE
Employee Type Contractor
Manages others Yes
Promotion level None
Zip 95835
City Sacramento
State California
Country United States