Ingredient Technician Trainee

Title: Ingredient Technician Trainee                 Location: Boardman, OR                 Job Requisition ID: Req-271510                 Time Type: Full time                 About Lamb Weston You’ve probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, 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.

Summary                 This position requires constant monitoring of the batter system. It requires the ability to operate and troubleshoot the batter, condiment and ingredient mixing equipment. Regular sanitation of the area as well as specialty cleanups are required. Assignments include driving a powered industrial truck equipped with lifting devices such as forklift and clamps to lift, stack, or move ingredients or materials. Efficiently maintains supplies to batter mixing, ingredient mixing and condiment handling areas. Manages to intake of ingredient inventory to batter storage area.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following (other duties may be assigned):   Maintains safe work practices at all times and participates in safety programs. Must be familiar with all safety rules and practices to avoid any possible food safety or any other safety hazards and to insure safety of employees in their work areas.  Understands how to look up QA Specifications for batter, condiment and ingredients.  Understands product codes and labels on batter and condiment tickets and how to use manifest to track inventory.  Safely opens, handles and hangs batter/ingredient bags.  Monitors and adjust sugar mix tank concentration as required.  Monitors condiment handling system with contact to Line 2 Line Lead and Fryer Op to ensure condiment is fed as required to the line.  Maintains dry batter hopper and auger levels as needed.  Assembles/Disassemble batter/ingredient equipment when needed.  Communicates problems to appropriate personnel.  Maintains expected level of sanitation in work area.  Fills out paperwork as required.  Must have a good understanding of chemicals and the hazards associated with the processing area.  Performs assigned duties during cut changes and defrost as required.  Cleans under and around batter and sugar mix areas during normal operations.  Responsible for Batter PC cleanups, allergen cleanups and non-GMO cleanups on dry and mix portions of batter system as required.  Knows safety rules and regulations for lift truck operation.  Inspects the lift truck prior to operation and reports any deficiency.  Moves levers and presses pedals to drive truck and control movement of lifting apparatus.     Positions forks, lifting platform, or other lifting device under, over, or around loaded pallets, skids, boxes, products, or materials and transports load to designated area.     Unloads and stacks material by raising and lowering lifting device.   Understand the information on the manifest tickets and how this information applies to their responsibilities.  Understand the procedure for “First In First Out” procedures.  Loads and unloads materials onto or off of pallets, skids, or lifting device as needed.     Reports all equipment failures and mechanical problems to appropriate