Forklift Operator Production Trainee (All Shifts)

Lamb Weston • Boardman, OR

2d • 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, Lamb Weston empowers 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 products, 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 not qualified, 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.
• Regularly required to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls.
• Frequently required to reach with hands and arms and climb or balance.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Regularly exposed to extreme cold in the freezer and extreme heat in the summer months.
• Occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions.
• Noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
• Qualification period not to exceed 50 shifts worked.

Responsibilities

• Receives instructions from the warehouse lead and utilizes knowledge of plant and warehouse operating procedures to carry out assignments.
• Drives a powered industrial truck equipped with lifting devices such as forklifts and clamps to lift, stack, tier, or move products, equipment, or materials.
• Maintains supplies to production and transfers packaged product to cold storage areas.
• Maintains safe work practices and participates in safety programs.
• Inspects the lift truck prior to operation and reports any deficiency.
• Moves levers and presses pedals to drive the truck and control the lifting apparatus.
• Positions forks, lifting platform, or other lifting device under, over, or around loaded pallets, skids, boxes, products, or materials and transports the load to the designated area.
• Unloads and stacks material by raising and lowering the lifting device.
• Understands information on manifest tickets and how it applies to responsibilities.
• Understands and applies "First In First Out" (FIFO) procedures.
• Loads and unloads materials onto or off of pallets, skids, or lifting devices.
• Maintains bulk repacks.
• Reports all equipment failures and mechanical problems to appropriate personnel.
• Completes forms accurately, timely, and legibly, identifying cases, labels, cuts, colors, catalog numbers, day codes, and acceptable case conditions.
• Knows procedures for battery changes.
• Rotates through all positions within the job title.
• Performs any other task as directed by Warehouse Manager, Warehouse Lead, or Team Leaders.
• Follows 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 areas clean.
• Stages product to be loaded.
• Prepares paperwork.
• Uses a 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.
• Supplies DM, batter, SAPP, condiment, and sugars for processing.
• Removes filled waste carts and totes from plant areas.
• Empties waste carts and totes into the waste hopper.
• Sanitizes waste carts, waste totes, and lift truck as needed.
• Keeps the waste area clean and organized.
• Maintains sanitation duties in the freezer.
• Transports finished goods or tote product to or from zero-degree cold storage bays in the warehouse and withstands cold storage temperatures for extended periods.
• Stacks good or restricted cased product and supplies rework with restricted product.
• Communicates with manifestor on inventories, items to blend, rework, and items to put away in the freezer.
• Communicates when bay transfers are needed and which bay to transfer to.
• Monitors freezer rollers and prevents them from backing up the line.
• Removes hand-stacked pallets from the hand palletizing area.
• Replaces cases opened by Quality Assurance.
• Sorts and stacks excess bulk and supplies packaging with bulk blend.
• Supplies pallets to the palletizing area.
• Sorts the bulk.
• Returns bulk to the freezer.
• Supplies totes to add-back machines.
• Monitors tote room activities, supplies empty totes, and removes filled totes.
• Assists palletizer operator with loading pallets in the 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
• 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
• 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