Req-234115

Title: Product Operator (Co Product Technician)

Location: Hermiston

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 9,000 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.

The Co-Product Technician role will be able to safely and efficiently operate and adjust all equipment in multiple processing and packaging area’s; monitor product quality, line flow rates and waste streams; actively identify and solve problems which affect safety, quality and production costs; make line changes to improve processes based off of our Core 4 working with Production Leads, Team Leaders and Line Structure Teams. The Co-Product Technician will be willing and able to seamlessly change positions between current qualified jobs to meet plant needs on their respective shift to help reach Hermiston’s CBN goals.

• Operates cohesively with all Co-Product team members in management of the Co-Product processing and packaging areas; Including but not limited to all job functions from the L3/4 even flows through Co-Product.
• Performs all Daily Management System standards per schedule to include CILs, FSILs, CLs, and Defect Handling.
• Conducts proper checks per procedure and by request of Production Lead, Team Leader Production, Team Leader Quality, Team Leader Area Production, and Line Structure Team.
• Owns daily sanitation of the line, including line break sanitation processes, general housekeeping and maintaining a food safe work environment.
• Performs End of Cycle Sanitation activities for both processing and packaging.
• Utilizes root cause analysis using IPS and UPS tools and participates in these events on their line.
• Engages in scheduled pillar activities to help drive out our top losses and drive to meet the goals set out in our site.
• Conducts Peer to Peer handoff with top losses and unresolved issues that will affect area to ensure success of the line both on and off shift.
• Actively participates in Lamb Weston Safety and Good Manufacturing Practice programs.
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds and to stand, walk, bend, stoop, twist and turn frequently.
• 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.
• 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 accommodation will be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job, absent undue hardship.

Skills and Experience:

• 1-2 years of experience in Food Manufacturing, or related field, preferred.
• Must be able to communicate, comprehend, and follow instructions in English (both written and oral).
• Qualification in L2/3 Formed Product, L2/3 Co-Product Packaging positions, and Sanitation, required. Training will be provided.
• Qualification in Lock Out Tag Out on L2/3 equipment, required. Training will be provided.
• Must be able to communicate, comprehend, and follow instructions in English (both written and oral).
• Functions well in team environment.
• Demonstrates capable troubleshooting skills.
• Capable of thinking critically.
• Basic understanding/ Proficiency in PC skills; Windows, Word, and Excel.

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-234115

Time Type: Full time

Anticipated Close Date: 02/22/2024

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $23.95 - $26.01 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Night shift

Work Location: In person