Note: The following required skills should be applied as appropriate to the equipment and processes that are used in the particular winery or workplace. Ability to: Access workplace information to identify nursery requirements Select, fit and use appropriate personal protective clothing and/or equipment Liaise with other work areas and customers Count, bundle and label cuttings as required Treat cuttings as required prior to callusing. This may include: fungicide treatment re-hydration scoring root promoter treatment cutting just below basal bud assimilation after cool storage Store cuttings. This may include maintaining and monitoring cold storage facilities Prepare sand bed or callusing room. This may include: packing sand or vermiculite lining boxes ensuring heaters and ventilators are working correctly to required temperature Plant or place cuttings in callusing environment. This may include: feeling into ground or sand packing into boxes with vermiculite watering in correct number of cuttings per box spacing (e.g. not too tight) correct way up (e.g. basal end at bottom) arranging according to variety, clone and source labelling and mapping of beds adding hormone mixes Maintain optimum callusing environment. This will include consideration of: temperature relative humidity moisture levels of growing medium weed and pest prevention Trim rootlings (top growth and roots) ready for planting Grade rootlings according to workplace or customer requirements and standards Pack rootlings. This should include consideration of: customer requirements maintenance of rootling health minimisation of vine damage mode of transport destination time storage time and method prevention of dehydration Recognise problems and anomalies with vines, equipment and materials Take corrective action in response to out-of-specification results, activity or non-compliance Report and/or record problems and/or corrective action Identify, rectify and/or report environmental non-compliance Collect, sort, grade, treat and/or dispose of waste as required Handle cuttings or rootlings to minimise damage Select and operate equipment as required Select and use materials as required Maintain work area to meet housekeeping standards Clean equipment as required Prepare and mix chemicals as required Conduct routine maintenance of equipment according to enterprise procedures Use oral communication skills/language to fulfil the job role as specified by the organisation, including questioning, active listening, asking for clarification and seeking advice from supervisor Work cooperatively within a culturally diverse workforce |