Laborer General Trainee

Title: Laborer General Trainee

               

Location: Boardman, OR

               

About Lamb Weston

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.

Job Description Summary

               

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.

Job Description

Include the following (other duties may be assigned): 

• 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. 

OTHER JOB FUNCTIONS: 

• 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. 

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

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.    

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: 

No prior experience or training. 

LANGUAGE SKILLS: 

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.  

REASONING ABILITY: 

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.

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.  

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hands to fing