Forklift Operator, Full-Time $18 - $22 per hour

Very Good Mfg; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Very Good Manufacturing is hiring full-time forklift operators for first and second shifts on-site in Fort Worth, TX. You’ll keep lines fed, move materials, and ensure pallets and labels match as products vary for different runs.

Responsibilities include unloading, receiving, and shipping pallets, and handing off staged materials to the next shift. Safety and daily equipment inspections are required, with potential overtime and bonuses based on performance.

Qualifications

• Must be at least 18 years old.
• Real time on a forklift.
• You perform the pre-shift inspection every day.
• Reliable transportation with a plan for the morning when the car won’t start.
• You notice when a pallet doesn’t match its label and speak up.
• On your feet for the full shift and able to lift up to 50 pounds.

Responsibilities

• Keep the lines supplied by moving materials from storage to the lines ahead of the run.
• Deliver the right material to the line as product changes require.
• Clear finished product from the lines, wrap, and store properly.
• Receive inbound shipments and ship outbound orders.
• Handover: stage materials for the next shift and brief the next operator.
• Inspect and care for equipment: forklifts, pallet jacks, stretch wrappers.

Skills

Forklift operation

Pre-shift inspection

Punctuality

Manual lifting

Tools

Stand-up reach truck (optional)

Job description

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. Four lines run under one roof, two bottling and two canning. Every one of them runs on what the warehouse brings it: glass, cans, caps, labels, case packs. And every finished pallet goes back through the warehouse on its way out.

A line that runs out of glass stops. So does a line with finished pallets piling up at the end of it. Keeping both from happening is this job. We are hiring full-time operators on first shift and second shift.

• Keep the lines supplied. Move materials from storage to the lines ahead of the run, so the next pallet is there before the current one runs out.
• Get the right material to the right line. We are a co-packer, so what the lines need changes with every product: different glass, different caps, different case packs. The wrong pallet at a line costs about as much as a late one.
• Clear finished product. Take finished cases and pallets off the end of the lines, wrap them, and put them away where they belong.
• Receive and ship. Unload inbound trucks, check what came in against the paperwork, and load outbound orders.
• Hand off clean. Before you leave, the next shift's materials are staged and the next operator knows where everything is.
• Take care of the equipment. Forklift, electric pallet jack, stretch wrapper. Inspect it at the start of your shift, every shift, and leave it clean and charging at the end.

What it takes

• At least 18 years old.
• Real time on a forklift. You are smooth and precise on the truck from day one, in tight aisles with people walking around you.
• You do the pre-shift inspection every day, including the days you are in a hurry.
• You get here on time, every day, on a full-time schedule. Reliable transportation, and a plan for the morning the car won't start.
• You notice when a pallet doesn't match its label, and you say so before it gets to a line.
• On your feet for the full shift. Regular lifting up to 50 pounds.

We train and certify every operator on our own trucks, so a certificate from a past job is welcome but not required.

Helps, but not required: high-volume distribution or 3PL · food or beverage manufacturing · military logistics · stand‑up reach truck · Spanish.

This is the wrong job if: you want to sit on the truck all shift. Between runs you will be wrapping, sweeping, baling cardboard, and counting.

The deal

$18 to $22 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.
• You plan your own shift: which run comes first, where things get staged, how a trailer gets loaded. It's a different puzzle every day, because the products keep changing. And when you've got it figured out, you can see it on the floor: four lines running, nobody waiting on anything.
• Nearly every manager in this building started here at entry level. We promote from within and we cross‑train on purpose.

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, getting on and off equipment all day, frequent bending and reaching, and regularly lifting up to 50 pounds. This is a safety‑sensitive position: lockout/tagout procedures apply, and 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.