Forklift Operator

About the role

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 line 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• This is the wrong job for someone who wants to sit on the truck all shift. Between runs you will be wrapping, sweeping, baling cardboard, and counting.

Pay

$18 to $22 per hour depending on experience, plus overtime opportunities and discretionary performance bonuses. Full-time, on-site in Fort Worth.

Benefits

• Very Good Work directly with industry-leading alcohol brands on projects you’ll recognize on a back bar.
• 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.
• 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.