Golden State Cider - Warehouse Tech I

Golden State Cider • Healdsburg, CA

5d • Onsite

About The Position

Join our Operations team as a Warehouse Technician I! In this hands-on role, you'll help keep our warehouse running smoothly by receiving shipments, preparing customer and wholesale orders, operating forklifts, maintaining inventory, and transporting products between our facilities. If you enjoy staying active, working in a fast-paced environment, and being part of a collaborative team that takes pride in delivering high-quality products, we'd love to hear from you. The Warehouse Technician I is responsible for supporting warehouse operations by receiving, storing, preparing, and shipping materials and finished goods while maintaining accurate inventory records and a safe, organized work environment. This role ensures timely fulfillment of customer, employee, and wholesale orders, performs quality checks, operates material handling equipment, and transports products between company locations. The Warehouse Technician I also partners closely with the Packaging team to provide operational support and maintain efficient production workflows.

Requirements

• Minimum 1 years of experience in a manufacturing or warehouse environment
• High School Diploma, GED, or two years of work-related experience.
• Competent with the basics of electronic systems of communication: email, chat, and basic data entry
• Forklift Certification and proven ability to safely operate a forklift, scissor lift, and pallet jack
• CA Driver’s License with clean driving record.
• Ability to work flexible shifts, including extended hours and overtime as needed
• Proficient levels in reading, writing, and mathematical skills
• Demonstrated ability to understand and follow directions, as well as listen and communicate with co-workers
• Strong and proven work ethic, and ability to multi-task workload
• Ability to frequently sit, stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl and climb.
• Ability to frequently talk, hear, feel, taste, and smell.
• Ability to frequently lift and/or move up to 25-50 pounds.
• Ability to work on a platform ladder at heights up to 20 feet.
• Vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.
• Must be able to participate in critical assessment of ciders.
• The employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move 25-50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

Nice To Haves

• Higher Education preferred
• Experience driving fleet vehicles, including cargo vans and box trucks preferred.

Responsibilities

• Complete site-specific training and certification, operates forklifts, and pallet jack to handle materials throughout the production facility
• Follows pick lists to prepare, move, and stage pallets of finished goods and dry goods
• Receives deliveries of packaging materials and cidery consumables and stores them in designated staging areas
• Organizes and attends to details pertaining to all shipping/receiving documents and inventories and processes necessary paperwork
• Maintains a clean and orderly production facility and performs final finished goods quality checks prior to shipment out of the facility
• Prepares and packages marketing materials to be shipped with wholesale orders
• Prepares, packages, and ships retail or employee orders
• Prepares and delivers materials, finished goods, and customer orders via company vehicles, to offsite locations. This includes the Sebastopol taproom, San Francisco taproom, Santa Rosa warehouse, and regional customers
• Crosstrain with the packaging team to ensure that there is adequate coverage during busy periods or in the event of absences, further facilitating cohesion between the two departments

Benefits

• Medical Insurance: 90% of the employee premium and 50% of dependent premiums covered
• Dental & Vision Insurance: 100% of the employee premium and 50% of dependent premiums covered
• $100 monthly reimbursement to support physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing, including gym memberships, fitness classes, yoga, strength training, or passes to Regional, State, or National Parks
• 18 days of PTO annually, accrued from your start date
• 11 paid holidays each year
• Monthly product perks to enjoy our craft beverages
• 401(k) Retirement Plan Eligibility begins after 90 days
• 100% match on the first 3%, and 50% match on the next 3% after one year of employment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED