841216 — Vineyard Worker

Performs routine tasks on a vineyard such as cultivating and fertilising soil, planting, training and pruning vines, and picking grapes.

• planting trees, seeds, seedlings, roots, bulbs, vines and other plants using hand tools and farm machines
• building trellises for climbing vegetables and vines
• operating farm machines to cultivate, fertilise, spray and harvest fruit, nuts, grains and vegetables
• spraying trees, vines and other plants with chemicals to control weed growth, insects, fungus growth and diseases
• thinning, weeding and hoeing row crops, and pruning trees and vines
• irrigating land for crop growth
• selecting and picking fruit, nuts, grains
• vegetables
• and mushrooms
• according to size and ripeness, and discarding rotting and over-ripened produce
• grading, sorting, bunching and packing produce into containers
• loading filled fruit, nut, grain and vegetable containers onto trucks