Lab Technician - Harvest (Seasonal)

Job Description:
Rodney Strong Wine Estates is currently looking for seasonal Lab Technician, to join our team in Healdsburg, California for Harvest 2025. This is a great opportunity to build your resume working for a company with iconic wine brands.
The Harvest Lab Technician provides analytical information to the winemaking and viticulture teams to help ensure quality in all aspects of the winemaking process. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: a wide variety of wine chemical analysis, chemical standardization, fermentation tracking, tank and barrel sampling, data entry, reagent preparation, equipment maintenance, microbial plating, and daily lab cleanup.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
•  Sample wine, juice or must from tanks or barrels
•  Perform analysis using a variety of manual and automated methods
•  Daily fermentation monitoring
•  Use sensory skills to identify and report any potential flaws
•  Help to prepare required reagents and maintain lab chemical inventory
•  Interact with other members of the production and viticulture staff to satisfy requests, disseminate information, problem solve and meet company goals
•  Enter data in computer database daily (InnoVint)
•  Perform general housekeeping and clean up tasks daily
•  Be available and flexible to overtime and weekend work as required by lab and grape schedules, especially from August to December
•  Perform other duties as are directed by the Enologist or Winemakers, as needed
•  Perform some duties at elevated heights (e.g. elevated walkways, ladders/stairs, etc.), as required
•  Always follow company safety rules and regulations to ensure a safe working environment for all employees

Qualifications:
•  Education: minimum HS diploma; college science background preferred
•  Previous winery lab experience preferred
•  Must show initiative, discipline, and focus to start a project
•  Ability to follow procedures with an attention to detail
•  Self-motivated with the ability to work with minimal supervision
•  Excellent oral and written communication and organizational skills
•  Computer skills to include, MS Excel, Word and Outlook

Physical Demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk and hear effectively. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste and smell. The employee must frequently and safely climb a ladder while carrying some equipment. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include adequate close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and to perform analysis based on differences in color, precise number reading and meniscus level.
Working Environment:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly working with strong acids, strong bases, oxidizing chemicals, and poisonous chemicals. The employee is frequently exposed to very hot glass containing boiling water, moving forklifts and other moving mechanical parts, and will be required to perform some duties at elevated heights. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, and outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Benefits Include:
- Employee discount on wine and apparel
- Food provide during the peak of harvest

The internship begins in early August and continues through November/December.
Pay Range: $19-21 (DOE)

https://www.rodneystrong.com/

Please email resume and cover letter to jobs@rodneystrong.com