Description

This Qualification provides vocational skills for work in the wine industry. A range of specialist electives are included covering skills used in the following wine industry operational areas:
bottling and packaging
cellar door sales
cellar operations
laboratory
warehousing
wine grape growing.

Testamur issued for this Qualification are to be titled ‘Certificate II in Wine Industry Operations’.

An additional descriptor in brackets after the Qualification title e.g. FDF20411 Certificate II in Wine Industry Operations (Cellar Operations) may be added by a Registered Training Organisation (RTO). Any additional descriptor should reflect a minimum selection of at least five (5) specialist Units from one of the following Unit groups:
bottling and packaging
cellar door sales
cellar operations
laboratory
warehousing
wine grape growing.

Job Roles The FDF20411Certificate II in Wine Industry Operations targets those working within a production or production support role. Job roles in the industry often vary in the degree of skill specialisation and the Qualification packaging rules reflect this diversity through allowing a choice of specialist electives in one specialisation area or a combination of grape growing, cellar operations, bottling and packaging, warehousing, laboratory and cellar door sales work.

This Qualification is designed for application in supervised environments where the work is predictable with some basic problem solving requirements.

Those performing a purely warehousing role in the wine production industry should consider the TLI21610 Certificate II in Warehousing Operations.

Those performing a purely laboratory operations role in the wine production industry should consider the MSL20109 Certificate II in Sampling and Measurement.

Those performing a purely cellar door role in the wine production industry should consider the SIT20207 Certificate II in Hospitality

Additional Qualification advice
Units selected from other Training Packages must be relevant to the work outcome, local industry requirements and the Qualification level.

Many Units in this Qualification assume a basic level of mathematics equivalent to a school sector Year 10 standard. If a student does not possess this level of mathematics then the Unit FDFOP2061A Use numerical applications in the workplace, should be selected as part of this Qualification.

Note: AgriFood Skills Australia expects that the design of any training delivery and assessment program to support the achievement of this Qualification is based on:
the context required by the industry and/or enterprise
a holistic and integrated training delivery and assessment plan that identifies learning activities and evidence required
flexible delivery options, including on-the-job and work-based training, that support the development of competency.