Job Details
Title: Utility Laborer
Location: Boardman, OR
Country: United States of America**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, weve produced innovative, inventive products that make life better for our customers and their customers.
**Job Description Summary**
We are looking for a motivated individual with a positive attitude to join our Lamb Weston Boardman Center Family!
The Utility Laborer plays an integral role by breaking down empty totes, separating the good and bad totes, hand stacking cases onto pallets according to customer specifications, and assisting our cold room team members for breaks and lunches.**Job Description**
**Key Duties**
* 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.
* Assist tote dump and forklift operator in the rotation of their breaks.
* 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
**Skills & Experience**
* **No formal education is required for this position. We will teach people who are willing to learn!**
* It is helpful but not mandatory for employees to have the ability to communicate in English verbally.
* 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 awareness 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 and Work Environment**
* 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.
* 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.
**Basic & Preferred Qualifications**
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.
**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-221662
Time Type: Full time
***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***
locationBoardman, OR (Boardman Center)locationBoardman, OR (Boardman Center)**Current Lamb Weston employees, please click and apply via the Career worklet.**
Started in 1950 on a small farm in the Northwest region of the U.S., Lamb Weston has grown to be one of the worlds largest frozen potato companies, happily delivering the delicious goodness of fries to more than 100 countries. Lamb Weston has created inventive products and processes that are standards in the industry. When we look at a potato, we see possibilities.
Our people are a valuable and integral part of our business and play a vital role in our success as an organization. At Lamb Weston we offer the financial stability and career potential of a true industry leader.
Lamb Weston will offer you the opportunity to put your education and skills to work as part of a great team, contributing to the achievement of the organizations goals and objectives. You will be challenged to take responsibility, drive results, show creativity, and display initiative - and you will be rewarded for your contributions and impact.
Lets explore the possibilities together.