Production Assistant $16 - $19 per hour

Very Good Mfg; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 22,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Shift differentials

Discretionary performance bonuses

Overtime opportunities

On-site production facility

Job summary

Very Good Manufacturing is hiring for two shifts in Fort Worth, TX. The Shift Manager on the floor coordinates four lines, and we need reliable people to keep materials flowing, stage upcoming needs, and move finished product. No experience required, but you must be able to stand, walk, and lift up to 50 pounds.

A driver's license helps, and Spanish is a plus. This is a safety-sensitive role with PPE in designated areas.

Qualifications

• At least 18 years old and reliable for daily on-site shifts.
• Must be able to read and follow written procedures.
• Comfortable standing, walking, and lifting up to 50 lb.
• Driver's license and basic safety awareness appreciated.

Responsibilities

• Keep the Shift Manager on the floor and supply lines with cans, caps, labels, tape, gloves, and parts.
• Move materials to lines before they run out and stage upcoming needs.
• Move finished products off lines, palletize, wrap, and stage for forklift.
• Turn around lines between products and adapt to changing runs.
• Report issues like crooked labels or safety concerns to supervision.
• Learn the line functions; goal is for you to run a line position in about a year.

Skills

Punctuality

Reliable transportation

Written procedures

Physical stamina

Safety awareness

Spanish (bonus)

Driver's license

Tools

Forklift experience

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, and one Shift Manager runs the floor on each shift.

That manager's job is to watch all four lines at once. What actually happens is that a line needs a pallet of cans, or a case of tape, or a part from the maintenance shop, and the manager walks off the floor to go get it. Sometimes they pull an operator off a line instead, which stops the line. Either way the shift loses. We are hiring two people, one on each shift, so that quits happening. You get the thing. The manager stays where they can see.

No experience required, and no diploma required. If the last place you were was high school, trade school, or college, that is fine.

• Keep your Shift Manager on the floor. Most of your day is getting what the lines need and bringing it to them: cans, caps, labels, case tape, gloves, a part from the maintenance shop, the QC tech when a sample needs pulling.
• Get materials there before anybody asks. You'll learn what each line is running and what is coming up next, so the next set of materials is staged before the current one runs out.
• Move finished product off the lines. Take cases off as they come, palletize them the way the pack-out procedure says, wrap them, stage them for the forklift driver.
• Turn the lines around between products. We are a co-packer, so what is running changes constantly: a bottled whiskey this week, a canned cocktail the next, every so often something nobody has made before.
• Tell somebody what you saw. You will walk past all four lines more than anybody else in the building. Crooked labels, a leak under a machine, a pallet stacked badly, somebody working without their safety glasses.
• Learn the building. You'll be shown how the machines work and what every position on a line does. The goal we have for this seat: in about a year, you can run a line position yourself.

What it takes

• At least 18 years old.
• You get here on time, every day. Reliable transportation, and a real plan for the morning it rains or the car won't start. This is the one thing we can't teach you.
• On your feet, walking and carrying, for a full shift. Regular lifting up to 50 pounds.
• You ask when you don't know. This job breaks when somebody guesses instead.
• You can follow a written procedure and leave a note the next shift can read.

• Helps, but not required: any job or team where you had to be somewhere on time
• warehouse, kitchen, retail stockroom, or farm work
• forklift or pallet-jack time
• Spanish
• a driver's license.

This is the wrong job if you want to know at the start of the shift exactly what you'll be doing all day, or if you'd rather be told twice. The list changes by the hour, sometimes because a line went down.

The deal

$16 to $19 per hour depending on experience, plus opportunities for shift differentials, overtime, and discretionary performance bonuses.

How we hire

• Video call A short conversation about you and what you're looking for.
• Floor walk On-site while the lines are running, with the Shift Manager you'd be working for. You'll shadow part of a run, and they'll hand you a couple of real tasks.
• Offer If it is a fit on both sides.

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 day is genuinely different. We are a co-packer, so the product on a line changes constantly, and so does what the day asks of you.
• Nearly every manager in this building started here at entry level. We promote from within and we cross-train on purpose.
• You'll learn a production floor from the inside, quickly, from the people running it.

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, frequent bending, reaching, and carrying, 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.