Laborer General Trainee

Lamb Weston

1d • $18 • Onsite

About The Position

You’ve probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, and public Fortune 500 company, we inspire and bring people together with foods they love and trust. Our customer base includes international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries around the world. A highly innovative global corporation with a start-up mindset, we empower every individual to make a genuine difference. You’ll gain access to hands-on training to fuel your growth and success, explore opportunities for new solutions, and you’ll join a winning team of 10,000+ people all dedicated to raising the bar – together. If you have a strong drive for results, a desire to help us bring the world together through our fries, and are ready for a fresh challenge, we want to hear from you. Inspects, sorts and removes defects from product being processed in a food production facility in a safe and effective manner. Takes direction from trim trainer and team leaders.

Requirements

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
• This position requires the ability to memorize and follow instructions and to identify and communicate non-standard product conditions and equipment malfunctions.
• General Laborers must also have to ability to attain and maintain an acceptable score on a trim test in which speed, skill, waste and decision making are all evaluated individually.
• Lamb-Weston reserves the right to set the standard of performance necessary to perform the General Labor position.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos in English.
• Ability to write accurate information on simple forms in English.
• Ability to effectively present or listen to information in oneonone and small group situations with all other employees of the organization in English.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Maintains safe work practices at all times and participates in safety programs.
• Rotates to all General Labor work stations to complete assigned tasks.
• Quickly assesses and removes foreign materials and nonstandard product from moving receiving and processing equipment as assigned using both hands.
• Hand sizes raw product on the trim line according to product specifications and Lamb Weston standards.
• Efficiently trims defects (cuts, rot, green, sugar ends, disease, etc...) from raw product to Lamb-Weston standards.
• Distributes product on processing equipment to maintain even product flow.
• Inspects raw product to ensure that it has been peeled, cut, cleaned and blanched, ready for final inspection or packaging.
• Performs hand-packing as assigned.
• Inspects bags in packaging and removes defective bags to Lamb-Weston's standards.
• Reports any irregular cuts or malfunction of food processing equipment as quickly as possible to the lead or team leaders
• Rework cased product into totes.
• Resort and/or recycle used cases as assigned.
• Performs cleanup duties as assigned.
• Performs weekend clean-up as assigned . This requires a working knowledge of lock-out procedures and chemical and cleaning procedures.
• Monitors equipment for plug-ups.
• Tote make-up and breakdown.
• Hand palletize cased product.

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