Packaging Technician

We’re a family-owned company with a 90+ year legacy, that’s consistently recognized as a Glassdoor “Best Places to Work.” We have 130+ brands in our total alcohol beverage portfolio including wine, malt, spirits, and ready-to-drink beverages. We’re home to the #1 wine and spirits brands in the U.S.

- Barefoot Wine & High Noon and are the official sponsors of the NFL, NHL, UFC, and PGA of America.

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Join Gallo as a Packaging Tech and play an important role in bringing world-class products from production to market. This hands‑on position offers the opportunity to learn bottling and packaging operations while working with innovative equipment, industry-leading processes, and a team committed to safety, quality, and continuous improvement.

In this role, you will learn and perform a variety of packaging and cellar operations, including equipment operation, sanitation activities, wine movements, changeovers, quality checks, and production reporting. You will gain experience working with packaging machinery, supporting efficient production flow, maintaining food safety standards, and ensuring equipment and work areas remain clean and organized.

Success in this position requires a strong work ethic, attention to detail, teamwork, and a commitment to operational excellence. You will collaborate with team members across departments, contribute ideas for continuous improvement, and develop valuable manufacturing skills in a fast‑paced production environment. This is an excellent opportunity for individuals who enjoy hands‑on work, problem solving, and building a long‑term career in manufacturing and operations.

• High school diploma or State‑issued equivalency certificate and 6 months of food and beverage production or operations experience; or, 18 months of food or beverage production or manufacturing experience.
• Must be able to regularly lift, carry, or move up to 50 lbs.
• Required to be physically capable of executing any job tasks within the bottling room or cellar operations.
• Must be able to repetitively lift and uncase production cases and/or production materials from one location to another.
• Required to work rotating day, swing or graveyard 8 hour to 11.75 hour‑shift schedule, and overtime as needed.
• Required to wear a respirator when necessary.
• Skilled in reading, comprehending, interpreting and executing simple instructions, short correspondence and memos.
• Required to work at heights and in confined spaces.
• Required to comply with company GMP policies.
• Skilled in writing simple correspondence.
• Skilled in adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing using whole numbers.
• Required to travel to company offices, sites, and/or meeting locations for onboarding, training, meetings, and events for development, department needs, and business delivery up to 5% of the time, with or without reasonable accommodation. This may be in addition to travel requirements, if applicable, as listed in this job description.
• Required to be 18 years or older. This may be in addition to other age requirements, if applicable, as listed in this job description.

• High School Diploma or State‑issued equivalency certificate plus 2 years of wine production or manufacturing experience.
• Experience operating a forklift proficiently.
• Experience with Warehouse Management Systems.

We are committed to providing competitive compensation, perks, and a culture that supports your well‑being. Benefits depend on your work category and may include medical and dental coverage, 401k plans, profit sharing, pet insurance, company holidays, access to an employee wine shop, and more! Additional information will be provided before your first…