We blend, bottle, and can distilled spirits and ready-to-drink cocktails for the biggest beverage-alcohol brands in the world, names you'd recognize from any back bar. We run two bottling lines and two canning lines, and every one of them runs on checks: before the run, all through it, and after.
This job does the checks. Before a run starts, you confirm the line is clean and set up for the right product, the right label, and the right code. During the run you pull bottles or cans off the line at set intervals and check them against the spec. After the run you close out the paperwork and sign the line off. When something is wrong, you say so, and the product stops until it's right. We run first and second shift, and we'll talk through which one fits you.
Clear the line to start. A pre-op inspection before every run: the line is clean and sanitized, the right materials are staged, and the right label and the right date and lot code are loaded. The run doesn't start until you've signed it.
Check product all through the run. Fill level, closure torque or can seam, date and lot code, label placement, case count and case labels, against the spec sheet for that product. Every check goes on the quality log as you do it, with the actual reading.
Pull the samples. In-process and finished-product samples during the shift, labeled and logged so anyone can find them a year from now.
Stop what's wrong. A failed check stops the product, and you tell the line lead right away. You put it on hold, mark it, and write down what you found and when. Nothing you've flagged ships until it's fixed and someone has signed off.
Keep the paper trail. Pre-op and post-op sheets, batch sheets, quality logs, sample logs, hold tags. When a brand audits a lot, these are what they read.
Keep the floor to its rules. Food safety and sanitation rules apply to everyone on the line, and you're the one who notices when they slip.
What it takes At least 18 years old.
You check carefully, and you check all of it, including the last case at the end of a long shift.
Numbers don't put you off. We'll teach you to read a spec sheet, use a scale and a torque tester, and write a reading down the same way every time.
You put product on hold and tell someone when it's wrong, even with the line running well and a lead trying to make up time.
Plans change most days here: a run moves up, a changeover gets pulled forward, a brand changes a label the night before. You take it in stride, and you still check everything.
Comfortable logging checks on a computer or tablet, and with email and a spreadsheet.
You get here on time, every day, on a full-time schedule. Reliable transportation.
On your feet for the full shift, beside running lines, in a plant that is loud and warm. Regular lifting up to 50 pounds.
You don't need QC or manufacturing experience. If you've run the pass in a restaurant, done load-in for live events, kept inventory in the military, or worked any job where a missed detail came back to you, we want to hear from you. We'll teach you our specs, our paperwork, and our lines.
Helps, but not required: QC or inspection work in food, beverage, or pharma · time on a bottling, canning, or packaging line · a food handler or food safety course · reading a spec sheet or a control chart · Spanish · a reputation as a stickler.
This is the wrong job if: you'd rather keep a line running than stop it for twenty minutes while you find out why the fills are drifting.
Compensation $18 to $26 per hour depending on experience, plus opportunities for shift differentials, overtime, and discretionary performance bonuses. Full-time, on-site in Fort Worth.
Why join:
Very Good Work directly with industry-leading alcohol brands on projects you'll recognize on a back bar. Your friends will be impressed. We have fun doing cool stuff.
Every bottle and can that leaves here carries a brand people know around the world, and every run gets checked by someone in this job before it ships. Later you'll spot those bottles on a back bar or a store shelf and know they went out right, because you checked.
Nearly every manager in this building started here at entry level. We promote from within and we cross-train on purpose. And our quality department is being built right now, so the people in it early help decide how it works.
Fine print This position works in and around an active production facility: moving machinery, forklift traffic, glass, and ethanol vapors, with noise and temperature variation. It requires standing and walking for the full shift beside running lines, frequent bending and reaching, and regularly lifting up to 50 pounds. PPE is required in designated areas. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Very Good Manufacturing is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. This job description describes the general nature of the work performed and is not an exhaustive list of duties, responsibilities, or qualifications. Offers of employment are contingent on satisfactory completion of a background check and a post-offer drug screen in accordance with company policy. Employment with Very Good Manufacturing is at-will.
Very Good Manufacturing is a high-speed beverage production facility in Fort Worth, Texas. We run contract production for leading alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverage brands. We specialize in distilled spirits, ready-to-drink (RTD), and canned cocktails, and our high speed canning and bottling lines run all TTB-approved sizes and fill levels. We are the #1 co-packer in the country for 100ml cans (specialty format for craft distilled spirits and high proof canned cocktails), and we have a full on-site R&D Beverage Laboratory for private label beverage concepting & formulation.
