Receiving Operator
Lamb Weston

Title: Receiving Operator

Location: Hermiston, 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

This job requires unloading trucks in a safe and timely manner, keeping the receiving area clean and free from debris. Making sure fluming systems are operated correctly to avoid plug-ups. Maintain raw product flow into evenflow bins. It is important that the person that holds this role obeys all safety and GMP regulations, procedures, and practices set by the Company.

Job Description

• Always maintain safe work practices and participate in safety programs.
  

• Guide trucks into unloading positions.
  

• Operates forklift to transport samples to ODA grading area.
  

• Monitor evenflow levels.
  

• Flume raw product into evenflows by using the HMI program.
  

• Complete CL's, CIL's, and FSIL's for your respective work area.
  

• Enter in defects found in your respective work area.
  

• Unloads trucks, take samples and operate receiving equipment.
  

• Accurately completes forms as required.
  

• Accurately collects and labels raw product samples.
  

• Daily sanitation duties.
  

• Maintain a clean receiving area, which will include shoveling, use of high-pressure water hoses, and dumping of raw waste totes.
  

• Inspect raw product for foreign material.
  

• Monitor waste pit water level.
  

• Monitor waste room hopper levels.
  

• Monitor water usage in Receiving.
  

• Perform any other essential duties as assigned by Team Leader
  

• Actively participate in Company Safety and Good Manufacturing Practice Programs.
  

• Maintaining and cleaning the silt room
  

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

Education/ Certifications:

• High School diploma or general education degree (GED) preferred.
  

Skills and Experience:

• Must have good communication skills; oral and written.
  

• Must be able to climb stairs and ladders.
  

• Must be able to stand for long periods of time.
  

• Must have the skills and ability to safely use cleaning equipment around Vision Systems.
  

• Must be able to work in adverse conditions.
  

Physical Environment/Demands:

• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
  

• Must be able to operate hand controls and drive a Hyster.
  

• Must have good communication skills oral and written, clear radio communication.
  

• 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.
  

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-255807

Time Type: Full time

Anticipated Close Date: 11/06/2024

In compliance with applicable state and local laws, Lamb Weston has opted to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. This compensation is specific to this position and takes into account a number of variables. Actual compensation may be higher or lower in the range based on various factors, including, but not limited to a candidate's work location, job duties, experience and expertise. A reasonable hourly estimate of the range for this role based on the variables previously mentioned is: $23.51

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

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