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Wine Industry Careers

Producing New Zealand’s world-class wines creates career opportunities – join us in the vineyard, in the winery, or in one of the many other roles that make up our industry.

Viticulture and Grape Growing

A career in viticulture can offer a range of opportunities to work hands-on and outdoors, whether you're new to the industry or have transferrable skills and experience.
Winemaking and Science

A career pathway into wine production offers a range of scientific, creative, and operational opportunities, whether you’re new to the industry or have specialised qualifications.
Wine Business

Beyond the industry’s more widely known vineyard and winery positions, there is a diverse range of corporate and hospitality opportunities.

Join the wine industry

Learn about wine education, scholarships and both permanent and seasonal jobs available right now in the New Zealand wine industry.

Industry resources

Vine to Wine Book

A teaching resource for Years 11 to 13

Vine to Wine

The future success of the wine industry will be assured by attracting and retaining talented people. To attract these people, they first need to understand the industry and the many opportunities for rewarding careers it offers. This challenge prompted NZW, as the body representing grape growers and winemakers, to consider how it could broaden awareness of the industry and the varied career options available.

The Vine to Wine book has been developed to empower teachers with resources to enable inclusion of wine industry related topics in Years 11 to 13. The content includes industry-sourced data and examples to assist teachers to build their knowledge and create resources for teaching students.

Skilled Wine Workforce Report

Insights to inform business, industry, and government activity to deliver a sustainable wine industry workforce.

Skilled Wine Workforce Report

NZW, Wine Marlborough and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's Sector Workforce Engagement Team are pleased to release A Skills-based Wine Workforce - a report and accompanying dashboard which provide workforce insights to inform business, industry, and government activity to deliver a sustainable wine industry workforce.

Real stories

Learn about how different people have entered the wine industry. Read more stories here.