Sanitation Technician Trainee

Title: Sanitation Technician Trainee

               

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

               

Ensuring a safe quality product leaves our doors by keeping bacteria and housekeeping at acceptable levels by using established cleaning procedures, chemicals, tools and techniques.

Job Description

• Comply with all safety policies, practices, and procedures.
• Clean sanitation areas and shovel debris from floors.
• Communicate with production supervisor about cleaning hours or any changes.
• Handle chemicals and know purpose of each chemical used.
• Complete proper paperwork for all sanitation areas and job duties of sanitation personnel.
• Maintain and track all sanitation equipment.
• Scrub equipment and machines
• Use of foamer (chemicals, sanitizers, etc.)
• Have designated sanitation area clean at all times
• Notify sanitation supervisor of any safety concerns or equipment problems
• Maintain good communication with all departments
• Must have ability to safely drive a fork lift
• Other duties as assigned

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

Skills and Experience:

• Ability to work with chemicals
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write out reports and forms.
• Ability to effectively present (speak) and listen to information in one on one and in small
• Ability to deal with problems involving safety and sanitary issues etc.
• Bilingual candidates encouraged to apply

Physical Environment/Demands:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, climb, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, as well as talk and hear. The employee must be able to work any or all areas of the plant.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 15 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 30 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 60 pounds and reach with hands and arms.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Exposed to a noisy environment that varies from hot to cold in temperature.
• Ability to do repetitious arm, wrist and hand movements required for job actions and procedures.
• Must be able to work with hands and arms overhead, and to work in or under the equipment.
• Requires manual dexterity, overall coordination and good balance to work both at ground level and in high places to perform job duties.Ability to operate work related equipment
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Employee must be able to perform the essential functions of the position satisfactorily. If requested, reasonable accommodations will be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job, absent undue hardship.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to slippery, wet and/or humid conditions and toxic or hazardous chemicals. The employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles and tight confined spaces. The employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts, in high places, and is exposed to extreme heat and cold.
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