Forklift Operator Production Trainee (All Shifts)

About the role

Lamb Weston is a leading manufacturer inspiring and bringing people together with foods they love and trust. We serve customers worldwide and are committed to empowering every individual to make a genuine difference.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Maintains bulk repacks.
• 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.
• Knows procedures for battery changes.
• Loads and unloads materials onto or off of pallets, skids, or lifting device as needed.
• 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 the plant areas. Empties out waste carts and totes into waste hopper. Sanitizes waste carts, wastes 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 warehouse and 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 what inventories, and which items to blend, to rework, and which items to 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. Sort the Bulk Return bulk to freezer.
• Tote Room Driver: Supplies totes to add back machines. Monitors tote room activities and supplies empty totes, and remove filled totes. Assists palletizer operator with loading pallets in pallet dispenser as needed. Maintains adequate empty totes for all bulk-off stations.
• Maintains a clean and orderly work environment.
• Changes batteries on lift truck when required.

Qualifications

• 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.

Skills

• Strong drive for results.
• Desire to help bring the world together through our fries.
• Ready for a fresh challenge.

Benefits

Coupled with our compensation and bonus incentive programs, our benefits deliver rewards that are market competitive. Some of the most attractive elements of our benefit programs include:

• 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

Pay

Industry-competitive benefits are offered, with a reasonable hourly estimate for this role being $25.70.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Lamb Weston is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law.