Laborer Packaging Trainee

Lamb Weston • Boardman, OR

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The packaging handler position is responsible for toteroom (addback) functions. These duties include controlling toteroom (addback) activity, reworking cased product, and recase and stripout activities. Lamb Weston is a leading manufacturer in the food industry, inspiring and bringing people together with foods they love and trust. They serve international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries. Lamb Weston is an innovative global corporation with a start-up mindset, empowering individuals to make a difference and offering hands-on training for growth and success.

Requirements

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or on-the-job type training along with Team Leaders help and instruction.
• 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 one-on-one and small group situations with all other employees of the organization in English
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide.
• Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out detailed 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.
• Running of addback equipment (adding bulk product back to lines).
• Must be able to work in cold conditions and work safely amid constant hyster traffic.
• Must ensure correct bulk is blended to lines and must record pertinent information on addback activity sheets.
• Must rake product out of totes into addback hopper, if necessary.
• Must also help with overflow totes and waste totes (raking and/or changing).
• Communicate needs to hyster drivers with elevated noise levels present.
• Communicate with team leaders, leads, manifestor and other employees.
• Rework (strip out) of cased product into totes for adding back to lines.
• Correct marking of totes with pertinent information so as to be correctly manifested.
• Filling out of rework log (record of product reworked).
• Handling of re-case activities, case damage, bag rework, and cleanup when necessary.
• Must be available to break other packaging laborer positions.
• Cleanup of packaging area: sweeping, shoveling, general sanitation.
• Handling of case damage (case and bag rework).
• Handling product accumulated in packaging carts.
• Stripout of bags in overflow and waste totes or on addback inspection shakers.

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