Forklift Operator Production Trainee (All Shifts)

Lamb Weston • Boardman, OR

1d • $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. With a customer base spanning over 100 countries, we are an innovative global corporation with a start-up mindset, empowering individuals to make a difference. This role offers hands-on training for growth and success, opportunities for new solutions, and the chance to join a winning team of over 10,000 dedicated people. We are looking for individuals with a strong drive for results and a desire to help bring the world together through our products, 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.
• Must 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.
• Qualification Period: Not to exceed 50 shifts worked.

Nice To Haves

• Ability to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

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.
• Efficiently maintains supplies to production and transfers packaged product to cold storage areas.
• Maintains safe work practices at all times and participates in safety programs.
• Knows safety rules and regulations for lift truck operation.
• 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 it applies to responsibilities.
• Understands the procedure for “First In First Out” (FIFO).
• 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 accurately, timely, and legibly, and can identify cases, labels, cuts, colors, catalog numbers, day codes, and acceptable case conditions.
• Knows procedures for battery changes.
• Will rotate through all positions within the job title.
• Performs any other task as directed by Warehouse Manager, Warehouse Lead, or Team Leaders.
• Follows 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.
• Uses 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 plant areas. Empties out waste carts and totes into waste hopper. Sanitizes waste carts, waste 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 the warehouse and is 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 inventories and items to blend, rework, or 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. Sorts the Bulk Return bulk to the freezer.
• Tote Room Driver: Supplies totes to add-back machines. Monitors tote room activities and 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, 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