We're Hiring — Beverage Co-Packing Jobs in Fort Worth, TX

WAREHOUSE TEAM

$18 - $22 per hour DOE

About Very Good

We run bottling and canning for the biggest spirits and beverage brands in the world — names you'd recognize on any back bar. The mission is operational excellence: make excellent products, and continuously improve how we make them. It's relentlessly challenging and a lot of fun.

Our best hires have come from a wide variety of backgrounds. What they share isn't a résumé or a single career path — it's a mindset: they notice what others miss, they care whether the thing they just did is actually right, and they don't walk past problems.

They don't ask whether something is good enough. They ask how it can be better.

We're looking for someone who's been around long enough to have an opinion. Not just someone who can operate a forklift — someone who has developed a way of doing it. Someone who's made mistakes, learned from them, and changed how they work because of it. Someone who knows not just the mechanics, but the judgment: when to slow down, how to read a floor, what the machine is telling you before it tells you loudly.

If that sounds like the kind of operator you've become, we want to hear from you.

The role

The Forklift Operator reports to the Warehouse Manager and is the person who keeps material moving through this facility — accurately, safely, and without creating problems downstream. You'll operate a forklift to transport, position, and stage product across the warehouse floor, prepare and secure loads for inbound and outbound shipments, coordinate priorities through radio communication with the team, and perform routine maintenance and pre-shift inspections on the equipment you operate.

This is physical work and it is repetitive, and that's the point. A warehouse runs on rhythm, and you're responsible for maintaining yours. The value isn't in the variety of the work — though the moments when the dock is backed up and three trucks need to move at once and you're the one threading the needle have their own kind of pressure. It's in the kind of person who brings the same standard at hour seven as they did at hour one, because one lapse in attention is all it takes.

But this role isn't just moving product from point A to point B. You're the person who stages the outbound pallets in the right sequence so the pick team isn't backtracking across the floor. You're the person who notices the receiving dock is about to create a bottleneck and repositions before it does. You're the person who keeps your equipment clean, charged, and ready — not because someone's checking, but because a machine that goes down mid-shift is your problem and everybody else's. The best operators we've had don't react to the floor. They read it.

There's a real path forward here. Small operations promote people who prove themselves, and we're no exception. Whether that's into a lead operator role, warehouse coordination, receiving, or inventory management — the people who advance are the ones who treat the floor with ownership. What you build here is yours to build.

What you'll do

Operate a forklift to load and unload trucks at the dock, move materials between receiving, storage, and production areas, and stage product for outbound shipment — accurately, every time, without creating rework for the next person in the chain.

Store materials in assigned locations and maintain warehouse organization throughout the shift. You know where everything is, and so does anyone who comes behind you.

Verify inbound and outbound shipments against BOLs, Purchase Orders, and Packing Lists. Coordinate with Operations on daily shipping and receiving schedules so nothing moves without confirmation and nothing gets missed at the door.

Conduct regular cycle counts across inventory categories. Identify and record inventory locations with the kind of precision that makes the next count easier, not harder.

Operate stretch wrappers and electric pallet jacks in addition to the forklift. Handle trash and baler operations as part of the daily floor routine — this is a small operation and everyone takes care of the facility.

Perform assigned daily, weekly, and monthly cleaning tasks. Comply with all facility sanitation and safety regulations across receiving, storage, and shipping — not because it's on a list, but because the standard doesn't change based on how busy the day is.

What matters to us

You operate with precision and consistency. Every load staged correctly, every pallet wrapped the same way, your pre-shift inspection done because you actually want to catch the problem — not because it's on a checklist.

You communicate clearly. When something is off, you say so — a count that doesn't match, a machine that doesn't feel right, a load that looks wrong. You don't wait to see if someone else notices.

You're comfortable when the day doesn't go according to plan. The dock doesn't wait, priorities shift, and the schedule changes. You already know that, and it doesn't throw you.

You follow the process — and when you think it could be better, you say that too.

Backgrounds that tend to do well here:

• High-volume distribution or 3PL
• Food and beverage production
• Military logistics or supply chain
• Retail receiving or inventory management
• Construction or industrial materials handling

Familiarity with BOLs and working knowledge of GMPs are useful and will help you ramp up faster.

Work environment

You will work in an active warehouse facility, moving between receiving docks, storage areas, and shipping. The role is physically demanding — expect to be on your feet for 8+ hours, regularly lift and carry objects up to 50lbs, and work in variable temperature conditions. PPE is required and will be provided.

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.