Packaging Operator - 12hr Graveyard

Title: Packaging Operator - 12hr Graveyard

               

Location: Boardman, OR

               

About Lamb Weston

We love making fries almost as much as you like eating them! Since the 1950’s, Lamb Weston has inspired customers with food they love, trust, and share with families and friends. As a leading global manufacturer of quality frozen potato products with over 10,000+ team members around the world, it’s our business to see the possibilities in potatoes and people.

We are looking for team members with an appetite for a challenge! People who are hungry to join a winning team and help us make a difference in the world. When you join Lamb Weston, you join a community with a strong support network and training programs designed to nurture, inspire, and help you grow.

We are driven by a relentless pursuit of results and by people who think creatively and embrace our values of: Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results, and Empowerment. Exactly what you’d expect from the most inventive potato company in the world!

Join Lamb Weston! We bring the world together with our fries.

Job Description Summary

               

The packaging operator is responsible for the setup, start up, adjustment, running, and cleaning or all equipment in the cold and package area. It is their responsibility, under the direction of the packaging lead and Team leader, to insure all packaging meets quality specifications, product temperature, bag code, case code, case condition, and bag length. The packaging operator is also responsible for regular cleaning or validation of cleaning for the product scales, baggers, blueprints, case settler, and sealers in a way that no foreign material is introduced into the product. The packaging operator is also responsible for hand stacking cases on pallets when necessary, regular cleaning and organization of the assigned work area, building totes, blending totes, and reworking product under the direction of the Packaging Lead/Team Leader.

Job Description

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following (other duties may be assigned):  

• Maintains safe work practices and participates in safety programs. 

• Performs routine metal detector checks to ensure proper function of metal detectors. 

• Orders packaging material 

• Ensures proper container sizing 

• Records packaging machinery efficiencies, downtime, and fills out reports accurately and correctly. 

• Responsible for ensuring complete packaging quality of product taking regular checks or weights, seals codes, glue patterns, etc. 

• Complete CIL’s and centerlines. 

• Participates in AMD Drumbeats. 

• Monitor metal detection and reject mechanism. 

• Responsible for monitoring:  l​ine sanitation, ink-jet coder, bagger operation, dyna-pack operation, settlers, and case sealers 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:  

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

WORK ENVIRONMENT:  

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individu