Forklift Operator Production Trainee (All Shifts)

Lamb Weston • Boardman, OR

2d • $26 • Onsite

About The Position

Lamb Weston is a leading manufacturer in the food industry, inspiring and bringing people together with foods they love and trust. They serve a customer base that includes international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries. As an innovative global corporation with a start-up mindset, they empower individuals to make a genuine difference, offering hands-on training for growth and success, opportunities for new solutions, and a team of over 10,000 dedicated people. They are looking for individuals with a strong drive for results, a desire to help bring the world together through their fries, and who are ready for a fresh challenge.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED preferred.
• One-month related experience or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Need to work with minimal supervision.
• Forklift certification is required. If you are not qualified, you will be trained and must meet certification requirements.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals in English.
• Ability to write routine reports and fill out forms in English.
• Ability to speak effectively with other employees in the organization in English.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Must be able to memorize product codes, labels and bulk lot numbers.

Nice To Haves

• Forklift certification is required. If you are not qualified, you will be trained and must meet certification requirements.

Responsibilities

• Receives instructions from the warehouse lead and utilizes the knowledge of plant and warehouse operating procedures to expeditiously and effectively carry out assignments driving a powered industrial truck equipped with lifting devices such as forklift and clamps to lift, stack, tier or move products, equipment, or materials.
• Efficiently maintains supplies to production as well as transfers packaged product to cold storage areas.
• Maintains safe work practices at all times and participates in safety programs.
• Inspects the lift truck prior to operation and reports any deficiency.
• Moves levers and presses pedals to drive truck and control movement of lifting apparatus.
• Positions forks, lifting platform, or other lifting device under, over, or around loaded pallets, skids, boxes, products, or materials and transports load to designated area.
• Unloads and stacks material by raising and lowering lifting device.
• Understands information on manifest tickets and how this information applies to their responsibilities.
• Understands the procedure for “First In First Out” procedures.
• Loads and unloads materials onto or off of pallets, skids, or lifting device as needed.
• Maintains bulk repacks.
• Reports all equipment failures and mechanical problems to appropriate personnel.
• Completes forms in accurate, timely and legible manner and can identify cases, labels, cuts, colors, catalog numbers, day codes and acceptable case conditions.
• Knows procedures for battery changes.
• Will rotate through all position within Job title.
• Any other task as directed by Warehouse Manager, Warehouse Lead or Team Leaders.
• Load Out Lock out-tag out procedures for dock locks.
• Knows procedures for unloading and loading Semi-trailers.
• Keeps the loading dock clear.
• Knows procedures for loading and unloading rail cars.
• Keeps area clean.
• Stages product to be loaded.
• Prepares Paperwork.
• Use computer to scan tickets for loads.
• Able to operate the “Push Pull” attachment.
• Maintains a clean and orderly work environment.
• Changes batteries on lift truck when required.
• Waste Driver: Supplies DM, batter, SAPP, condiment, and sugars for processing. Removes filled waste carts and totes from the plant areas. Empties out waste carts and totes into waste hopper. Sanitizes waste carts, wastes totes, and lift truck as needed. Keeps waste area clean and organized. Knows FIFO procedures.
• Freezer Driver: Maintains sanitation duties in the freezer. Transports finished goods or tote product to or from zero degree cold storage bays in warehouse and able to withstand cold storage temperatures for extended periods. Stacks good or restricted cased product and supplies rework with restricted product. Communicates with manifestor on what inventories, and which items to blend, to rework, and which items to put away in the freezer. Communicates when bay transfers are needed, and which bay to transfer to. Monitors freezer rollers and keeps them from backing up the line. Removes hand stacked pallets from the hand palletizing area. Replaces cases opened by Q.A.
• Bulk Driver: Sorts and stacks excess bulk and supplies packaging with bulk blend. Supplies pallets to the palletizing area. Sort the Bulk Return bulk to freezer.
• Tote Room Driver: Supplies totes to add back machines. Monitors tote room activities and supplies empty totes, and remove filled totes. Assists palletizer operator with loading pallets in pallet dispenser as needed. Maintains adequate empty totes for all bulk-off stations.

Benefits

• Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision
• Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts
• Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program
• Paid Time Off
• Financial Wellness – Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance
• Family-Friendly Employee events
• Employee Assistance Program services – mental health and other concierge type services

What This Job Offers

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