Forklift Operator Trainee

Lamb Weston

20d • Onsite

About The Position

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. Must efficiently maintain supplies to production as well as transfer packaged product to cold storage areas.

Requirements

• Less than high school education; or up to one month related experience or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Need to work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and fill out forms.
• Ability to speak effectively with other employees in the organization.
• 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.
• Also must be able to memorize product codes, labels and bulk lot numbers.
• Ability to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls.
• Ability to reach with hands and arms and climb or balance.
• Ability to lift and/or move up to 75 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Able to work in all locations of the building including dry storage, tote room, bulk, rework, waste, slip-unit, compactor and freezer.
• Must be able to perform duties of all job stations in the plant.
• Responsible for loading out receiving "inbounds" from many locations including fiber, ingredients, frozen, waste, tote storage, etc.
• Inventories materials on work floor, and supplies plant with materials as needed such as paper rolls, fiber, sapp, sugar, totes, pallets, etc.
• Loads and unloads materials onto or off of pallets, skids, or lifting device as needed.
• 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.
• Sorts and stacks excess bulk and supplies packaging with bulk blend, knock down cases, paper, etc.
• Stacks good or restricted cased product and supplies rework with restricted product.
• Maintains bulk repacks.
• Replaces cases opened by Q.A.
• Maintains adequate empty totes for all bulk‑off stations.
• Supplies pallets to the palletizing area.
• 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.
• Loads and unloads truck or rail cars.
• Maintains a clean and orderly work environment.
• Changes batteries on lift truck when required.

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: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees