About Boat O’Craigo

Boat O’Craigo is a second generation family-owned boutique winery nestled in Victoria's highly acclaimed Yarra Valley wine region. With vineyards in Healesville and Kangaroo Ground, we have specialised in hand-crafting bespoke, single vineyard wines for over 20 years. We have experienced huge growth and awareness in recent years. We were recently awarded by James Halliday as ‘5 Star’ and the ‘Dark Horse Winery of the Year’ and have just completed a major rebuild of our cellar door and function space. We are now one of the most loved premier wineries and venues in the Yarra Valley.

About our Team

Our cellar door, located in the picturesque regional town of Healesville and at the foothills of the Black Spur ranges, is the true home of our brand. Led by an experienced and diversely skilled team, we are proud of our work in creating an approachable, relaxed and positive vibe for our cellar door, whilst delivering outstanding customer service. It’s why our crew enjoy working at Boat O’Craigo and our customers come back to visit us time and time again.

About the Role

Our new cellar door and function space has really taken the business forward and increased our capacity and patronage. With this growth comes the need for passionate and experienced people to grow with us. We are searching for a number of experienced (or wine enthusiast) wine tasting and sales professionals to join the Boat O family.

About You

We are searching for experienced, passionate, dynamic, engaging and outgoing individuals who are excited about sharing their wine knowledge and passion with others. We are looking for people who take delight in getting to know and educating people about wine and making their day by delivering knowledgeable, down to earth and memorable wine experiences for our customers.

Responsibilities of our Cellar Door Tasting and Sales staff will include assisting with daily venue setup and close, conducting wine tastings and imparting wine knowledge, recommending, selling and serving wine by the bottle or glass, processing food orders and taking payment via our POS system and promotion of our Wine Club. As a brand ambassador, you will help customers to engage and connect with our brand, our wines and our venue.

As the ideal candidate, you’ll have:

· A minimum 2+ years relevant industry experience

· WSET Qualifications in Wine viewed favourably but not essential

· An RSA Certificate, or the willingness to obtain one

· A passion for wine

· Excellent communication skills

· Reliability, punctuality and enthusiasm

· A collaborative team attitude and a positive work ethic

· A willingness to learn and refine your skills whilst being mentored by qualified and passionate staff

· Flexible rostering and shifts between Thursday to Monday, 10-5pm

· Willingness to work at least one weekend day

· The legal right to work in Australia as an Australian citizen or Permanent Resident

What’s in it for you?

· A team-focused, inclusive work environment supporting you to thrive and be your best

· Opportunities to build skills in a variety of areas within the business

· Generous staff discounts on our wines

· Rostering flexibility with day shifts Thursday to Monday with nights only by prior agreement for special events or weddings

· Hospitality Industry Award wages including weekend and public holiday penalty rates

Interested?

If this all sounds pretty great, we’d love to hear from you. Follow the link below to apply.

Please include the following with your application.

· Cover Letter; introducing yourself and why you think that you're the right person for the job

· Resume; detailing your qualifications, skills and experience

Don’t feel like you meet every requirement above? That’s ok, we’d still love to receive your application if you think you’ll be a great fit for this role. We commit to responding to every applicant who engages with us throughout this process.

We consider ourselves an employer of open opportunity and welcome applications from people with a diversity in age, sex, gender identity, race, status, sexual preference, disability status or religion. In particular, we welcome applications from more mature candidates who are passionate about wine with a desire to share their knowledge.