Heavy Laborer Trainee

Title: Heavy Laborer Trainee
Location: Boardman, OR
About Lamb Weston
Lamb Weston is a leading supplier of frozen potato, sweet potato, appetizer and vegetable products to restaurants and retailers around the world. For more than 60 years, we've produced innovative, inventive products that make life better for our customers and their customers.
Job Description Summary
In this job, you will break down empty totes, separating the good and bad totes, hand stack cases on to the pallets according to customer specifications, and assist the cold room personnel during their breaks and lunches.
Job Description

• Comply with all safety policies, practices, and procedures.
• Hand stack (palletize) finished product (cases) on to pallet.
• Assist with breaks and lunches at designated times.
• Monitor product codes on outside of box, to insure the best legibility.
• Monitor overall case condition for tears and/or signs of product leakage.
• Assist line personnel by keeping Wexxar staging full at all times.
• Assist line personnel by keeping work area clean.
• Break down empty production totes.
• Band sets of broken down totes together to be shipped.
• Operate controls to dump totes of product into hoppers.
• Participate in proactive team efforts to achieve departmental company goals.
• Actively engage in safety, participate in safety programs, safety activities, and demonstrate ownership as well as leadership in personal safety of other team members. Report all incidents, near misses, and any safety concerns.
• Other duties may be assigned.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

• No formal education is required for this position.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions effectively and efficiently
• Ability to work on any shifts, including weekends.
• Possess the ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out simple one-or two-step instructions.
• Properly use Lockouts, safety procedures, and be constantly aware of your safety and the safety of your team members.
• Be knowledgeable of the potential hazards and safety procedures associated with the task being done.
• Understand and obey all plant rules and practice safety as outlined in the employee handbook.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, bend, and walk.
• The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms and talk or hear.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 35 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is occasionally exposed to a cold environment.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places and fumes or airborne particles.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Will work around forklift traffic.

Industry-Competitive 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

Benefits may vary based on location, job role/level, job status, and/or the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreements.
Job Requisition ID: Req-232139
Time Type: Full time
In compliance with applicable state and local laws, Lamb Weston has opted to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. This compensation is specific to this position and takes into account a number of variables. Actual compensation may be higher or lower in the range based on various factors, including, but not limited to a candidate's work location, job duties, experience and expertise. A reasonable hourly estimate of the range for this role based on the variables previously mentioned is: $16.21
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