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Arterra Wines Canada

Makes and markets Canadian and imported wines

Vinificateur

Process EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeRougemont, QC, Canada

About the Job

Requirements

  • Experience in the agri-food, beverage, or wine industry.
  • Demonstrated leadership, autonomy, flexibility, and ability to make decisions in the field.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to coach and manage a team.
  • Ability to meet or exceed targets while maintaining attention to detail.
  • Ability to manage time, stress, and priorities across multiple tasks.
  • Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing in French.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, and familiarity with cellar management systems such as JDE and Red Blend.
  • A college or university diploma in oenology, chemistry, food science, or a related field.
  • More than five years of experience in a production facility.
  • Understanding of production-facility processes.

Responsibilities

  • Supervise and perform daily cellar activities, including fermentation, racking, blending, fining, and filtration.
  • Monitor wine quality using sensory analysis, laboratory results, and production data.
  • Ensure product consistency and strict compliance with winemaking protocols established by the principal winemaker.
  • Resolve production issues in close collaboration with laboratory staff and the cellar team.
  • Perform cold-stability test checks on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays and incorporate them into the production plan. Ensure current-week production meets requirements and, if it does not, consult the cellar master on the appropriate stabilization method, including CMC, KPA, metatartaric acid, or cold-treatment standardization, dosage, and best practices.
  • Analyze trial blends using chemical analyses and tests and validate compliance with specifications.
  • Verify physicochemical, ICP, and protein analyses for blends, receipts, fermentations, transfers, and related processes.
  • Review pre-bottling laboratory analyses, compare them with specifications, and approve blends ready for bottling.
  • Determine and provide the required SO₂ and CO₂ additions for bottling.
  • Manage SNCR non-conformity processes in Red Blend and Max RNC blends.
  • Create fermenter records in the computer system, scan and archive trial-blend records, and serve as the cellar point of contact for Red Blend.
  • Maintain current recipes and specifications in Red Blend at the cellar level.
  • Update quality-system documents related to the role.
  • Lead the Paperless project for the Winemaking department, including development, modifications, and training.
  • Plan wine blends to meet short-term MPS requirements over two to four weeks and anticipate medium-term blending needs over four to six weeks to avoid production interruptions, working closely with the production planner.
  • Prepare and issue operation sheets for operators covering blends, additions, filtration, receipts, shipments, cubitainers, bulk wine, barrels, and related activities.
  • Support short-term regional planning.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in a wine production facility is an asset.

About the Company

Arterra Wines Canada

Makes and markets Canadian and imported wines

Arterra Wines Canada makes and markets Canadian and imported wines for shoppers, restaurants and wine retailers. Its portfolio includes Jackson-Triggs and Inniskillin, whose table wines and ice wines come from Canadian growing regions. The business spans vineyard cultivation, winemaking and bottling, while its estate wineries sell bottles and host tastings for visitors. It earns money from wine sales and distribution, and also sells kits and supplies that let consumers make wine at home under its RJS Craft Winemaking business. With operating roots in the Niagara Falls Wine Company founded in 1874, Arterra is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Mississauga, Canada
Founded
1874

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