Viticulture apprentice

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