Laborer Packaging Trainee

Title: Laborer Packaging Trainee                 Location: Boardman, OR                 Job Requisition ID: Req-271704                 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                 The packaging handler position is responsible for toteroom (addback) functions. These duties include controlling toteroom (addback) activity, reworking cased product, and recase and stripout activities.

Include the following (other duties may be assigned):  Maintains safe work practices at all times and participates in safety programs. Tote room: Running of addback equipment (adding bulk product back to lines). Must be able to work in cold conditions and work safely amid constant hyster traffic. Must ensure correct bulk is blended to lines and must record pertinent information on addback activity sheets. Must rake product out of totes into addback hopper, if necessary. Must also help with overflow totes and waste totes (raking and/or changing). Communicate needs to hyster drivers with elevated noise levels present. Communicate with team leaders, leads, manifestor and other employees. Tools and equipment used: product rakes, shovels, squeegees, white carts, waste carts, electric pallet jack, broom and dustpan. Rework: Rework (strip out) of cased product into totes for adding back to lines. Correct marking of totes with pertinent information so as to be correctly manifested. Filling out of rework log (record of product reworked). Handling of re-case activities, case damage, bag rework, and cleanup when necessary. OTHER JOB FUNCTIONS: Must be available to break other packaging laborer positions. Cleanup of packaging area: sweeping, shoveling, general sanitation. Handling of case damage (case and bag rework). Handling product accumulated in packaging carts. Stripout of bags in overflow and waste totes or on addback inspection shakers. 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.  EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:  High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or on-the-job type training along with Team Leaders help and instruction.  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 one-on-one and small group situations with all other employees of the organization in English  MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:  Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide.   REASONING ABILITY:  Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out detailed written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

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