How much does an Blender (wine) earn
A Blender (wine) earns between $1.165 and $2.696 per month, with an average monthly salary of $1.532 and a median salary of $1.462 according to an Averwage.com salary survey along with to data of professionals hired and fired by companies in the labor market.
Our research is based on the salaries of 985 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).
| Monthly Salary | Annual Salary | Salary Per Week | Hourly Salary | |
| Average wage | 1.532 | 18.379 | 383 | 7 |
| 1º Quartile | 1.165 | 13.981 | 291 | 5 |
| Median Salary | 1.462 | 17.544 | 366 | 7 |
| 3º Quartile | 2.056 | 24.677 | 514 | 10 |
| Higher Salary | 2.696 | 32.357 | 674 | 12 |
Professional job categories
- Workers in the production of industrial goods and services
- food, beverage and tobacco manufacturing workers
- equipment operators in food and beverage preparation
- workers in the manufacture of cachaça, beer, wines and other beverages
Related Positions:
Main workplaces
Workers in the manufacture of cachaça, beer, wines and other beverages they operate in the manufacture of food and beverage products as employees with a formal contract. They are organized as a team, under occasional supervision and in a closed environment. They work predominantly in the shift system (day or night), however, in the occupations of wine making, vinegar and syrup maker, activities are carried out during the day. In the development of some activities, they may remain exposed to the action of toxic materials.
What does it take to work in the field of Workers in the manufacture of cachaça, beer, wines and other beverages
For the exercise of these occupations, schooling corresponding to high school and professional practice at the job is required.
Functions and activities of Blender (wine)
Workers in the manufacture of cachaça, beer, wines and other beverages must:
Activities
- add ferments (yeast) to the wort;
- break malt;
- carry out the loading of transport vehicles;
- register materials evaluation data;
- store dry malt;
- demonstrate color discrimination ability;
- control liquid volume;
- evaluate the conservation and cleaning conditions of transport vehicles;
- weigh raw material;
- control volume of wines in maturation barrels;
- replace electromechanical components;
- assist maintenance personnel, in the exchange of machine parts and components and equipment;
- assist maintenance personnel in the exchange of machine parts and components and equipment;
- exhaust must from crushed grapes from tanks;
- fill dryers with malt;
- stir the fermented mass (maceration);
- crushing grape grains;
- fill tanks and vats with raw material;
- boiling the must (liquid load);
- add coadjuvants and additives to the must;
- discriminate flavors;
- control drying time and temperature;
- control time and temperature of must;
- inspect the mechanical and electrical parts of machinery and equipment;
- prepare filter media;
- control malt stocks;
- control germination time;
- select filter media;
- distill fermented sugar cane and grapes;
- perform sensory tests (visual, odoriferous) and density measurements and wort temperature;
- perform aeration of musts;
- control the maturation of wines by sensory analysis;
- show objectivity;
- prepare wines for maturation;
- perform asepsis of equipment;
- carry out loading of transport vehicles;
- reason quickly;
- evaluate malt blends;
- propagate ferments;
- control volume of liquids;
- separate raw material;
- humidize cereals;
- package beer for maturation;
- control time, temperature and filtering pressure;
- remove lees from fermentation tanks;
- extract sugarcane juice;
- decant the must from the exhausted wine;
- control cereal temperature;
- record data from production processes, in the manufacturing order;
- press the grape pomace;
- unloading malt from dryers;
- record data of production processes, in the manufacturing order;
- request maintenance of machinery and equipment;
- record material evaluation data;
- homogenize malt drying;
- discriminate odors;
- preparing malt blends of different varieties;
- remove the fermented bagasse from the fermentation tank;
- dilute the sugar concentration of the cane juice must;
- lubricate machinery and equipment;
- remove yeast and by-products of fermentation and maturation;
- control fermentation time and temperature;
- interpret manufacturing orders;
- record data from production processes, in manufacturing order;
- refrigerar o must;
- clarify musts;
- testing the operation of machinery and equipment and the quality of materials;
- show self-organization;
- evaluate the degree of attenuation of sugar in the wort in fermentation;
- maintain simultaneous attention in diverse tasks (diffuse attention);
- perform aeration of cereals;
- control degree of humidity of cereals;
- clean machinery and equipment.;
- add sugar (sucrose) to grape must;
- perform sensory inspections on germinated cereals;
- demonstrate a sense of detail orientation;
- order laboratory tests;
- cool the must;
- program filtering stations;
- unload raw material from tanks and vats;
- separate the grain from the woody part of bunches of grapes (stemmed );
- adjust machine and equipment parts and components;
Sectors that hire Blender (wine) the most in the job market
- wine making
- manufacture of sugarcane brandy
- manufacture of electronic components
- manufacture of refreshments, syrups and powders for refreshments
- manufacture of other spirits and distilled beverages
- manufacture of alcohol
- wholesale beverages with associated fractionation and packaging activity
- manufacture of beer and draft beer
- soft drinks manufacturing
- grape growing
