Lab Assistant - Winemaking

Lab Assistant - Winemaking

Location: Modesto, CA, US, 95354

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Date: Nov 13, 2026

Company: Gallo

Job Req ID: 107854

Job Type: Full-time

Work Category: Onsite,

Application Close Date: 11/20/2026

Sponsorship: Not Available

Compensation: $ 23.08 - $ 31.15

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We are GALLO

We’re a family-owned company with a 90+ year legacy, that’s consistently recognized as a Glassdoor “Best Places to Work.” We have 130+ brands (https://www.gallo.com/portfolio/) in our total alcohol beverage portfolio including wine, malt, spirits, and ready-to-drink beverages. We’re home to the #1 wine and spirits brands in the U.S. - Barefoot Wine & High Noon and are the official sponsors of the NFL, NHL, UFC, and PGA of America.

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A Taste of What You'll Do

Join GALLO’s Winemaking team in a hands-on role that helps bring our wines from cellar to glass. Under general supervision, you’ll provide essential day-to-day support across the winemaking laboratory and winery, contributing to a safe, organized, inclusive, and high-performing environment. This is an opportunity to build practical knowledge of winemaking operations while partnering closely with winemakers, lab staff, interns, and cross-functional colleagues.

You’ll maintain clean, sanitary, and well-stocked lab spaces; care for equipment; manage supplies and incoming materials; and keep work areas, hallways, and carts orderly and ready for use. You’ll collect, receive, log, prepare, deliver, and clean up wine samples for testing, tastings, sensory analysis, and winemaker-directed projects. Responsibilities also include supporting bench blending, trials, centrifuging, filtering, lab-solution preparation, and pH/Brix measurements, as well as collecting data for reports and appropriately disposing of liquids, glass, cardboard, and expired inventory.

During harvest and throughout the year, you’ll assist with red fermenter spreader checks, tank-top inspections, and MOX processes—including cleaning and sanitizing equipment, placing or removing air stones, and troubleshooting cellar units. You’ll also help train interns on routine tasks, follow applicable winemaking SOPs, and adapt to evolving winemaking and spirits making processes with guidance from Winemaking Leadership.

Success in this role comes from reliability, attention to detail, collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to quality, environmental stewardship, safety, and inclusion. If you enjoy working in a dynamic production environment and take pride in helping teams operate at their best, we encourage you to apply.

What You'll Need

• Associate’s degree; OR High School Diploma or State-issued equivalency certificate plus 2 years of laboratory support experience.

• Required to be at least 21 years of age.

• Required to work overtime, weekends, and any shift, when needed.

• Requires availability for a 6 day work week during harvest, when needed.

• Required to lift and move up to 50 pounds.

• Required to conduct work at extreme heights.

• Skilled in the use of MS applications.

• Skilled in reading, comprehending, interpreting and executing simple instructions, short correspondence and memos.

• Skilled in writing simple correspondence.

• Skilled in adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing using whole numbers.

• Required to travel to company offices, sites, and/or meeting locations for onboarding, training, meetings, and events for development, department needs, and business delivery up to 5% of the time, with or without reasonable accommodation. This may be in addition to travel requirements, if applicable, as listed in this job description.

• Required to be 18 years or older. This may be in addition to other age requirements, if applicable, as listed in this job description.

How You'll Stand Out

• 2 years of experience in a winemaking laboratory or winery environment.

• Skilled in the use of Tableau.

• Candidates for this position must have a valid driver’s license and a safe driving record. Required to obtain a California driver’s license or appropriate state driver’s license within 30 days of hire.

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Our Benefits & Perks

We are committed to providing competitive compensation, perks, and a culture that supports your well-being. Benefits depend on your work category and may include medical and dental coverage, 401k plans, profit sharing, pet insurance, company holidays, access to an employee wine shop, and more! Additional information will be provided before your first interview.

The Fine Print

• The Company does not sponsor for employment-based visas for this position now or in the future.

• We offer a broad salary range to allow for long-term growth. Actual compensation paid within the range will be determined by multiple factors, including, but not limited to, education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, internal equity, and alignment with market data. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed between the entry point and middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors. In addition to the salary, this position may be eligible for bonuses, incentive plans, or participate in tasting room tip pools, as applicable.

• This position will be based in the location(s) specified in the job posting and requires working on-site with no telecommuting option. You will be expected to live within a commutable distance.

• It is the Company’s policy for job postings to be open to internal candidates for a minimum of 5 days and to external candidates, if applicable, for a minimum of 3 days.

Gallo’s policy is to afford equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees and not to discriminate on the basis of race, traits associated with race, including but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles (such as braids, locks, and twists), color, national origin, ancestry, creed, religion, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition as defined by applicable state law (including cancer and predisposing genetic characteristics), genetic information, marital status, familial status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation (actual or perceived), transgender status, sex stereotyping, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, reproductive health decision making, age, military or veteran status, domestic violence or sexual assault victim status, or any other basis protected by applicable law. Nor will Gallo discriminate based on a perception that an individual has any of the foregoing characteristics or is associated with a person who has, or is perceived to have, any of those characteristics.

Gallo will comply with state and local laws prohibiting discrimination for lawful out-of-work behavior, such as off-duty use of cannabis away from the workplace (subject to federal and state law exceptions), the existence of non-psychoactive cannabis metabolites in hair, blood, urine, or other bodily fluids as determined by a drug screening test (subject to federal and state law exceptions).

We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Gallo is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please let us know at 209.341.7000.

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