Demo

Forklift Operator - 3rd shift

McCain Foods
Rice, WI Full Time
POSTED ON 11/27/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/12/2026
Position Title: Forklift Operator - 3rd shift

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Position Location: Rice Lake

Requisition ID: 37953

Essential Duties

  • Under limited supervision, the Utility Worker performs a variety of routine manual work requiring physical strength and endurance, including operating forklift to transport raw materials and finished product.
  • This position rotates between the following four areas; receiving, onion hoppers, breading hopper room, and the freezer.
  • Unload semi-trucks of raw and packaging materials by using a forklift and transport to the warehouse ensuring that the area is kept clean and organized.
  • Unloads and stacks onions (up to 50 bags at 50 pounds per unit stacks to a height of 6 feet ‑ up to 3 loads per 8 hour shift of up to 1000 bags per load) onto pallets and transports to storage area or cutting area as required.
  • Counts and dumps sacks of onions into cutting hoppers as required.
  • Places carts under end cutters and empties scrap onion into trash compactors.
  • Stacks, bales and stores burlap sacks as required.
  • Load bags of batter and breading onto the elevator and operate to bring up to the breading hopper room. Manually dump 50 lb bags into the hoppers.
  • Performs general housekeeping work including removal of excess scrap from end cutters, shovels or sweeps scrap from floors, flushes floors with water, may assist with machinery cleaning and performs other housekeeping work in other plant areas as required.
  • Completes product recall tags and places on all palletized product and checks to insure that product cases packed match recall tag counts.
  • Complete and enter into the AS400 system all appropriate production paperwork in an accurate and timely fashion.
  • Keeps packaging areas supplied with raw materials and supplies.
  • May stack cases onto slip sheets or pallets, stretch wraps and transports product to cold storage area.
  • Transports extruded onion ring stacks into cold storage area as required.
  • Other duties as assigned.
  • Understands and follows established sanitation and safety rules and procedures.

Criteria: Employees with a final written warning on file for a work-rule violation in the rolling calendar year (1 year back from this posting date) will not be eligible to bid for these openings.

Selection Process: Based on seniority as well job knowledge and skills, candidates will be interviewed by the hiring Supervisor.

Compensation Package: - Starting at 24.30 USD hourly Bonus eligibility Hourly Pay Differential for applicable shifts

The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs.

Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support, including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with the Collective Agreement, country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefits details available during the application process.

Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.

Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree that this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. You can understand how your personal information is being handled here.

Job Family: Manufacturing

Location(s): US - United States of America : Wisconsin : Rice Lake

Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.

Salary.com Estimation for Forklift Operator - 3rd shift in Rice, WI
$39,432 to $48,464
If your compensation planning software is too rigid to deploy winning incentive strategies, it’s time to find an adaptable solution. Compensation Planning
Enhance your organization's compensation strategy with salary data sets that HR and team managers can use to pay your staff right. Surveys & Data Sets

What is the career path for a Forklift Operator - 3rd shift?

Sign up to receive alerts about other jobs on the Forklift Operator - 3rd shift career path by checking the boxes next to the positions that interest you.
Income Estimation: 
$39,089 - $49,080
Income Estimation: 
$47,432 - $61,916
Income Estimation: 
$46,327 - $63,969
Income Estimation: 
$46,554 - $64,445
Income Estimation: 
$37,726 - $46,705
Income Estimation: 
$51,902 - $64,610
Income Estimation: 
$46,685 - $59,878
Income Estimation: 
$43,603 - $55,670
Income Estimation: 
$51,669 - $66,452
Income Estimation: 
$43,603 - $55,670
Income Estimation: 
$53,120 - $69,174
Income Estimation: 
$50,113 - $64,377
Income Estimation: 
$61,656 - $78,069
Income Estimation: 
$59,875 - $77,824
Income Estimation: 
$50,113 - $64,377
Income Estimation: 
$83,358 - $103,871
Income Estimation: 
$71,548 - $88,918
Income Estimation: 
$63,993 - $81,891
Income Estimation: 
$76,263 - $101,711
View Core, Job Family, and Industry Job Skills and Competency Data for more than 15,000 Job Titles Skills Library

Job openings at McCain Foods

McCain Foods
Hired Organization Address Boise, ID Full Time
Position Title: PMT - June 2026 Cohort - US - External Position Type: Regular - Full-Time Position Location: [[cust_loca...
McCain Foods
Hired Organization Address Burley, ID Full Time
Position Title: Packaging Operator Position Type: Regular - Full-Time Position Location: Burley Grade: Scale 08_UFCW Req...
McCain Foods
Hired Organization Address Grand Island, NE Full Time
Position Title: Food Safety Quality Specialist Position Type: Regular - Full-Time Position Location: Grand Island Requis...
McCain Foods
Hired Organization Address Burley, ID Other | Full Time
Position Title: Field Representative - Potato Position Type: Regular - Full-Time Requisition ID: 39552 In every role, Mc...

Not the job you're looking for? Here are some other Forklift Operator - 3rd shift jobs in the Rice, WI area that may be a better fit.

1st Shift Forklift Operator

Performance Foodservice, Rogers, MN

Shipping Forklift Operator - Night Shift

Up North Plastics, Cottage Grove, MN

AI Assistant is available now!

Feel free to start your new journey!