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. Everything they use comes in through receiving, and everything they make goes out through shipping.
This job stands at both doors. Inbound material stays on receiving hold until it has been fully counted and its certificate of analysis is on file. Outbound, you check every pallet before it goes on the truck. Every one, every shipment. We have shifts starting around 5am (first), 8am (swing), and 2pm (second), and we'll talk through which one fits you.
Hold what comes in. Inbound glass, cans, closures, labels, and liquid sit on receiving hold until you release them. Nothing goes to storage or a line without its COA on file and matched to the lot.
Count all of it. Full counts on every receipt, checked against the packing list and the purchase order. Shorts, overages, wrong lot numbers, and damage get written down and photographed the same day, so purchasing can take it up with the supplier while it's still fresh.
Check every pallet that ships. Product, lot codes, case count, labels, wrap, and the pallet itself, against the order. A pallet that fails stays here until it's fixed.
Keep the inventory honest. Cycle counts, lot tracking, and correcting the records when the floor and the system disagree.
Keep the paper trail. Receiving logs, COA files, shipping checks, discrepancy reports. When a brand audits a lot, these are what they read.
What it takes
At least 18 years old.
You count carefully, and you count everything, including the last pallet at the end of a long shift.
Paperwork doesn't put you off. We'll teach you to read a bill of lading, a packing list, a purchase order, and a COA, and to match lot numbers and quantities across them line by line.
Plans change most days here: a run moves up, a truck shows up a day early, a brand changes a label the night before. You take it in stride, and you still count everything.
You put a pallet on hold and tell someone when it's wrong, even with a driver waiting and a line asking for the material.
Comfortable entering receipts and counts 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, on the dock in Texas heat. Regular lifting up to 50 pounds.
You don't need warehouse or QC 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 system.
Helps, but not required: receiving or shipping in a warehouse or 3PL inspection or QC work in food, beverage, or pharma cycle counting time on a forklift Spanish a reputation as a stickler.
This is the wrong job if: you'd rather keep a driver happy than make one wait twenty minutes while you recount.
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 pallet that leaves here carries a brand people know around the world, and none of it ships until you sign off on it. 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 and loading dock: moving machinery, forklift traffic, glass, and ethanol vapors, with noise and outdoor temperatures on the dock. It requires standing and walking for the full shift, climbing on and around trucks and pallets, 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.
