Document Control Specialist $22 - $26 per hour

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're a licensed distilled spirits plant and an FDA food processing site, so our paperwork is as much the product as what goes in the bottle.

Every batch makes records. So does every pallet that comes in and every truck that goes out: batch production records, receiving paperwork, bills of lading, certificates of analysis, lab logs. This job owns them. Writing the procedures is a separate job here; you own the records those procedures produce, and the standard is complete, correct, filed, and findable. Nothing missing, nothing unsigned, nothing lost. When a brand auditor or a state inspector asks for a lot from eight months ago, you're the one who puts a hand on it in minutes. The role sits in Quality, and you'll report to the executive team to start.

• Close out the batch records. Every entry, initial, signature, weight, and time, checked against what the record asks for. Where something's missing you go back to the production lead who ran it and get it fixed before the record closes. Some days that's most of the job.
• Check the paperwork against the truck. Inbound bills of lading, packing slips, and certificates of analysis on what we receive. Outbound shipping documents against the order and against what inventory says we have. Anything that doesn't line up gets flagged that day.
• Send the customer their packet. Assemble and proofread the documentation that goes out with a finished run, and send it the day the run finishes. These go to the brand's quality group, and they read them.
• Scan it, index it, file it. Every production, receiving, and shipping record, in both the paper files and the digital ones, in an order somebody else could follow. You'll also pull records for brand audits, for TTB and TABC recordkeeping, and for the monthly operations numbers.
• Keep the lab's records straight. Sample logs, the retain-sample library, proofing worksheets, calibration logs, cleaning logs. Samples get labeled and logged so anyone can match one back to its lot a year from now.
• Hold the floor to good documentation practice. No blanks, no pencil, single-line corrections, dated initials. Nobody loves being stopped in the middle of a run. You'll be doing it anyway.

What it takes

• Two years or more in document control, records, QA paperwork, or another job where getting the details right was the work itself.
• You notice the missing initial on page four, and you don't let it slide.
• You'll go back to someone who's busy and doesn't want to stop, ask them to fix a record, and stay pleasant about it. Then you follow up, because the first ask doesn't always land.
• Comfortable with spreadsheets, a scanner, shared drives, and writing a clear email. We'll teach you our systems; you should pick up a new one fast.
• You can read a written procedure, follow it exactly, and say so when it doesn't match what the floor actually does.
• Afternoons, Monday through Friday, roughly 1:00 to 6:00 to start, with some give on the exact hours. Reliable transportation.
• Based in the lab and the office, with regular time out on the production floor. Sitting and standing for long stretches, close-focus work on a screen and a scanner, and occasionally lifting up to 25 pounds.

You don't need to have done this in a plant. If you've kept the records for a pharmacy counter, run the files in a clinic or a title office, handled supply paperwork in the military, or closed out tickets for a shop where a missed signature came back on you, we want to hear from you.

Helps, but not required: food, beverage, or spirits manufacturing · GMPs or HACCP · sitting through an audit, customer or TTB or FDA or ISO · Spanish · a reputation as a stickler.

This is the wrong job if: you'd rather file what you're handed than go find the person who left a box blank and ask them to fix it.

Compensation

$22 to $26 per hour depending on experience. Part-time to start, about 20 to 25 hours a week, on-site in Fort Worth. We put this job on afternoons so the morning's paperwork gets reviewed the same day it's written, and so there's a second set of careful eyes in the lab while the evening shift runs. It's a schedule that works alongside classes, caregiving, or another job. We're growing quickly and the hours in this seat may grow with us.

Why join Very Good

• We have fun doing cool stuff. The product you're writing up is made for brands people know all over the world, and your friends will be impressed.
• You'll see every product and every line in this building, because all of them send you paperwork.
• Nearly every manager in this building started here at entry level. We promote from within and we cross-train on purpose. 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 the lab and office areas of an active production facility, with regular time on the production floor: moving machinery, forklift traffic, glass, and ethanol vapors, with noise and temperature variation. It requires sitting or standing for extended periods, frequent computer and scanner work, and occasionally lifting up to 25 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.