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Works directly with Winemaker in all facets of winemaking process. Ensures smooth workflow of winemaking operations, prioritizes tasks that need to be accomplished, and maintains the production calendar. Prepares work orders, assists in data management, maintains reports and inventory through Vintrace software. Reviews and implements SOPS for winery equipment and procedures. Responsible for quality and execution of work performed. Engaged in safety training and management of compliance issues in the laboratory and cellar environment to provide a safe workplace. Manages all harvest intern hiring, training, and scheduling. Creates a positive atmosphere within production team to promote teamwork, quality of work, and enthusiasm. Generates and produces all lab analysis. Conducts physical, chemical, and microbial analysis. Oversees and maintains laboratory safety and updates procedures and safety material data sheets. Responsible for all calibrations, instrument maintenance, repairs, and maintaining lab supplies. Conducts and coordinates all trials and lends expertise to investigate new products appropriate for fining and additives. Inspects incoming wine additives to ensure they meet the company’s quality standards. Maintains analytical records for all packaged wines and additives. Performs Quality Control inspecting for bottling line. Microbiology monitoring, fill height checks, CO2, DO, alcohol, and SO2 before and during bottling. Inspects all packaging to ensure it is correct. Provides sensory analysis in cellar to ensure wine quality. Prepares and participates in blending and fining trials. Provides technical winemaking support to Winemaker and production staff. Assists in supervising wine production operations, grape receiving, crushing, pressing, and all harvest operations. Participates in wine tasting at all stages throughout the winemaking process and is responsible for conducting evaluation and recommendations of treatments.

Mattawa, Wa

Work directly with Head Winemaker and Assistant Winemaker to execute and make important winemaking decisions. Tastes wine inventory with Winemaking team to build familiarity with wine style and wine quality issues. Reports wine analysis to winemaking team and alerts them of any potential issues either with the analysis or with any off-aromas and or issues observed while sampling. Acts as a technical resource regarding treatments that would reduce wine quality issues or advance wine style. Supports Winemaking team at harvest time by assisting with tank additions, fermentation management, harvest time fining trials and special analyses and tracks fermentations. Ensures all numbers generated by the lab are accurate and communicated to Head Winemaker and Assistant Winemaker. Organize lab workload and tracks lots through fermentations, monitoring RS, ML, VA of the entire current vintage during harvest and past vintages throughout the year. Regularly reviews lab analyses of wine inventory for anomalies or missing information and conducts follow up analysis or broad-based analysis on barrel lots. Ensures that bottling blend analysis matches bottled wine analysis. Captures details of bottling blends for reference on future blends or future vintages. Engages daily and checks proficiency with the Winemaker’s Database to check history of wine movements and the accuracy of data.Participates in blending trials with Winemakers. Prepares blends or trials as agreed upon with Winemaking team, following with tasting and cellar implementation of results. Conducts special technical projects as needed in the winery to resolve quality assurance or wine quality issues. Consults, selects, and organizes competitive tastings for the staff. Participates in continuing education programs when available, or technical forums, which enhance job performance and technical contribution to the winery.

Quincy, Wa

• Mange all the laboratory operations and staff. This includes all quality and aspects of the wine making process while driving business decisions based on the analytical results. Prioritizing work according to production schedules, compliance and regulations with all local, state, and federal governance. • Manage, supervise, and train all laboratory staff and seasonal workers. Follow company procedures for running various analyses for wine and juice samples. • Conduct physical, chemical, and microbial analysis, including QC for bottling. Oversee and maintain laboratory safety, updating procedures and safety material data sheets.• Manage and analyze the wine properly to ensure quality and health of the wine. Support the wine maker and consult on evaluating juice, taste and smell all the wine.• Adheres to applicable procedures as they relate to Quality Control Department which include Quality Control Inspect for proper function of all production line and bottling equipment. • Microbiology monitoring including swabbing and finished bottle plating. Prepares wine tanks prior to production and finished bottle analysis and perform incoming inspections to ensure supplies meet specifications. • Inspect cases for correct printing, glue application, label placement, case weight and pallets for the correct pallet formation and stretch wrap.

Paso Robles, Ca

• Routine operations production cellar work such as sanitation tanks, lines and equipment, cellar fittings, hoses, hoists, fixed process lines, stack and unstack barrels, barrel maintenance, and other wine processing cellar equipment.• Wine movement for Harvest, grape receiving, pressing, pump overs, wine transfers, racking and barreling down, stirring and topping, filling and emptying and sampling.• Wine movements - set-up and movement of wine and juice to and from tanks, barrels and tanker trucks. Forklift certified.• Make additions to wine and juice after a confirmation of the calculations, blending chemistry and diligent record keeping.

Healdsburg, Ca

• Evaluate the chemical characteristics of grapes throughout their maturation process, develop rapid chemical methods to measure and monitor positive grape attributes and defects, and correlate wine chemical characterizations with sensory attributes to model wine aging and to determine product shelf life.• Working daily with various instruments within the laboratory to analyze various wine samples from our site as well as others. Inventory is taken weekly from tanks and barrels. Pulling various samples of the wine in a specific verity on every lot and run full panel analysis to enhance quality and stability. Measuring out how many appropriate chemicals additions and laboratory reagents. While also tracking and maintaining wine quality from fermentation to finished wine. Review bulk wines for suitability as blending components such as hot and cold using the IST-C50 and DIT instruments.• Research and analyze phenolic compounds in wine and juice samples using the FTIR instrument. • Proficient and comfortable with the following lab tools: Advia, FTIR, Auto Titrator, Alcolyzer, Carbon Dioxide and Dissolved Oxygen Meter, Flame AA Spectroscopy, Hand Titrating for Sulfur, Brix Meter, Refractometer.• During the bottling process we check CO2 levels when bottling is in production. • Experience working in a global organization.

Ellensburg, Wa

• Gained the confidence of senior faculty to present subject matter to students. I lead labs using lectures and discussions and grade all lab reports. • Responsible for supervising, tutoring and assisting all students to master assignments and reinforce chemistry learning concepts taught by professors.• Comfortable working in a lab. Calibrate, standardize and inventory laboratory equipment, chemicals and any other functions as necessary. • Instruct lab safety and maintain clean work stations at all times. • Biochemistry skills: enzymes, proteins, amino acids and how they work in the body and other organisms. Perform protein analysis and enzyme characterizations. • Quantitative analysis skills: proper lab technique for precision and accuracy with laboratory equipment and instruments Examples: volumetric flasks, volumetric pipettes, GCMS, FTIR, UV-vis spectrophotometer. • Instrumental analysis skills: various instruments used in the laboratory; how they work, the theory behind them, what they are used for, detection limits, sensitivity, resolution, and spectra produced. Examples: fluormeter, XRD, ICPMS, and HPLC.