Careers

We believe in finding the strengths that lie within every candidate and strive to build diversity in our shared work environment. With a woman winemaker and Asian-American woman co-owner, we are committed to interviewing, hiring, and developing a diverse team. 

Now Hiring: Tasting Room Associate  

We seek a candidate who will challenge wine tasting traditions’ status quo and create world class experiences that excite and engage customers. The Tasting Room Associate is responsible for ensuring all guest receive exceptional customer service along with promoting the history and uniqueness of La Mesa Vineyards. The associate is responsible for building customer relations that will lead to wines sales, wine club memberships, and ticket sales for special events.

Essential Duties

• Greet and assist guests in a friendly and prompt manner in person, over the phone, or by way of email
• Pour wines for tasting in accordance with La Mesa’s policies and procedures
• Educate guests on La Mesa’s wines, history, possible pairings, and wine selections
• Promote wine sales, wine club subscriptions, non-wine merchandise, and special event initiatives
• Process wine orders and Wine Club pick-ups through POS and Wine Club software
• Efficiently handles basic POS transactions such as operating cash register, taking credit card payments, processing returns, and applying discounts
• Promote and capture new email subscribers to La Mesa’s Newsletter
• Process and take shipping orders as requested by customers
• Stock wine, non-wine merchandise items, and supplies as needed
• Work onsite winery events as well as off-site events for winery related functions
• Follow procedures and policies for depleting wines for daily pours, donations, promotional, and wine club purposes
• Must be able to handle various equipment such as hand-trucks and dolly’s to move heavy objects
• Maintain tasting room’s interior and exterior appearance and cleanliness such as dusting, sweeping, mopping, cleaning glasses, pour buckets, pouring spouts, counters, and so forth
• Perform all other duties assigned by Tasting Room Manager and Ownership as directed
• Perform all opening and closing duties as directed
• Follows all appropriate rules and regulations in accordance to COVID related procedures and policies
• Acts in accordance with all ABC rules and regulations

Other Duties

• Set-up and break down as needed for special events and daily agendas
• Assist with inventory procedures with wine and non-wine related items
• Assist Tasting Room Manager with wine club packaging and shipping
• Contact wine club members for account updates, bad credit cards, declined wine club shipments, etc.
• Other duties assigned as needed

Qualifications

• Education: High School/GED preferred
• Experience: One-year customer service experience
• Cover Letter: Please attach cover letter

• Must be 21 years of age or older with a valid Drivers Licenses
• Ability to lift and carry 50 pounds
• Excellent customer service
• Ability to stand for long periods of time not limited to bending, leaning, and pouring in a continuous manner
• Required to work weekends, holidays, days, and nights as needed
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Excellent time management skills
• Ability to multi-task while working with little supervision, and is a team oriented
• Strong problem solving, organizational, and analytical skills

Now Hiring: Assistant to Tasting Room Staff

The Assistant to Tasting Room Staff is responsible for assisting the needs of the servers in efforts of providing such experience.

This position is hourly and requires flexibility to work weekends and holidays. This position may offer more hours and days at a later time depending on the needs of La Mesa Vineyards.

Hourly Rate: $15

Tips: 20% of shared tips

Essential Duties

• Assist with opening duties such as prepping outdoor bar, setting up outdoor patio for guests, setting up COVID check-in station, and various other duties as needed
• Efficiently clears tables of dirty glasses, menus, carafes, water glasses, tasting boards, etc.
• Performs regular sanitizing procedures for frequently touched items
• Sanitizes tables and chairs after each customer
• Washes and polishes all glassware
• Re-stocks glass wear for both the tasting room and the server’s outside bar
• Re-stocks the server’s bar with clean pens, tasting boards, glass wear, and other items
• Re-stocks the tasting room with wine
• Re-stock the tasting room with clean towels, bags, and other supplies
• Perform routine checks of restroom to ensure toilet paper is stocked and restrooms are clean
• Performs routine sanitizing of door handles and other frequently touched items
• Builds wine orders as they come in
• Assist with guest welcome/check-in (including Covid-19 safety protocols)
• Assist as needed with pouring wine tasting flights
• Assist customers with carrying wine out to their vehicles
• Assist with closing duties such as cleaning, re-stocking, depleting wines, and so forth
• Must be able to handle various equipment such as hand-trucks and dolly’s to move heavy objects
• Perform all other duties assigned by Tasting Room Manager and Ownership as directed
• Follows all appropriate rules and regulations in accordance with COVID related procedures and policies
• Acts in accordance with all ABC rules and regulations

Qualifications 

• Education: High School/GED preferred
• Experience: One-year customer service experience
• Cover Letter: Please attach cover letter 

• Must be 18 years of age or older with a valid Drivers Licenses
• Ability to lift and carry 45 pounds
• Excellent customer service
• Ability to stand for long periods of time not limited to bending, leaning, and pouring in a continuous manner
• Required to work weekends, holidays, days, and evenings as needed
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Excellent time management skills
• Ability to multi-task while working with little supervision, and is team oriented
• Strong problem solving, organizational, and analytical skills

To apply, send a cover letter and resume to info@lamesavineyards.com