Job Summary

The Warehouse Technician I should proficiently perform tasks related to finished goods and materials handling and warehousing, shipping/receiving, and inventory.

Job Responsibilities

• Operates internal combustion and electric-powered forklift to load/unload trucks from loading dock
• Follows pick lists to prepare, move, and stage pallets of finished 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 as needed.
• Maintains a clean and orderly warehouse facility and performs final finished goods quality checks.
• Prepares and packages marketing materials to be shipped with wholesale orders
• Prepares, packages, and ships online retail orders
• Prepares and delivers packaged product to our Sebastopol Taproom via cargo van or box truck

Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year of experience in a manufacturing or warehouse environment
• High School Diploma, GED, or four years of work-related experience. Higher Education preferred
• Forklift Certification and proven ability to safely operate a forklift, scissor lift, and pallet jack
• CA Driver’s License with clean driving record. Experience driving fleet vehicles, including cargo vans and box trucks preferred.
• Ability to work flexible shifts, including extended hours and overtime as needed
• Good 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
• Commitment to excellence in an ever-evolving, exciting field of work

Work Environment & Physical Requirements

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

• The work environment is usually that of a beverage production plant
• The employee is regularly working around hazardous materials
• The employee works on wet floors and with wet equipment.
• The employee regularly works around alcohol, high voltage electricity, hot water, pressurized asphyxiant gases
• The employee must work to contribute to a sanitary and clean work environment

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

• 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 55 pounds and occasionally maneuver up to 165 lbs. along the ground or floor
• Ability to frequently reach with hands and arms.
• 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.

Benefits

BENEFITS OF WORKING FOR GOLDEN STATE CIDER

Golden State Cider has been independently and proudly producing our hard cider in Sebastopol, California since 2012. Our team is unlike any other, it takes a village to make what we believe is the epitome of California-style cider. Here are some of the reasons we think Golden State is a pretty rad place to call home:

Health Care

For a fairly fresh company, we offer an incredible benefits package. Golden State Cider pays for our employee’s Medical, Dental and Vision coverage – In Full - 100%.

Crew members may add dependents to their policies with the premiums for dependents being deducted from regular payroll on a pre-tax basis.

Wellness Allowance

In addition to a generous Health Care package, Golden State Cider recognizes the importance of our team member’s overall health and wellbeing and provides a wellness allowance per month which can be used towards a variety of things that promote physical activity, wellness and work-life balance. The goal of the Wellness allowance is to provide Golden State Cider employees as many options and as much flexibility as possible to find an activity which promotes aerobic exercise, flexibility, strength training as well as emotional health including coverage for passes to Regional, State or National Parks.

Paid Time Off

As part of our commitment to our employees’ health and wellbeing, Golden State recognizes the need for work/life balance as well as the value of rest and relaxation. We begin our offering with 10 Paid Holidays per year. Golden State offers three weeks of paid vacation during an employee’s first year with tier increases annually.

Cider is our passion, it’s in every part of our culture and we love to share it with our employees through our allotment program ~ just another perk of the job!