What are the responsibilities and job description for the Forklift Operator position at McCain Foods?
Position Title:Forklift Operator
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 39980
About The Role.
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy.
Under limited supervision, the Backup Forklift Operator is responsible for supporting plant operations by performing a range of physically demanding manual tasks that require the operation of a forklift and adherence to safety and sanitation standards. This position rotates among receiving, onion hoppers, breading hopper room, and the freezer areas, ensuring production flows smoothly and efficiently. We are currently hiring for all shifts! 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.
Accountabilities
At McCain, we’re feeding the world: from French fries to cakes, we contribute to the important role food plays in people's lives. That’s why we’re dedicated to ensuring our core values—Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality—shine through every day. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in more than 160 countries, and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that we can work together, along with our business and community partners, to bring sustainable growth and positive change today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain!
Leadership Principles.
Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organization. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles.
We are customer-obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success.
We think big and plan ahead. Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success.
We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together.
We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.
The McCain Experience
We are McCain: this statement is about our power collectively and our importance individually—your impact is a significant part of the business. Our winning culture focuses on authenticity and trust so we can always bring out the best in our people. Here, you have the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive while being yourself. Join our team to see why we’re better together.
Compensation Package: Starting at $24.80 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/training, and other organizational needs.
Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and wellbeing at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & wellbeing 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. Wellbeing 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 benefit 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 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.
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 39980
About The Role.
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy.
Under limited supervision, the Backup Forklift Operator is responsible for supporting plant operations by performing a range of physically demanding manual tasks that require the operation of a forklift and adherence to safety and sanitation standards. This position rotates among receiving, onion hoppers, breading hopper room, and the freezer areas, ensuring production flows smoothly and efficiently. We are currently hiring for all shifts! 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.
Accountabilities
- Forklift Operation: Safely operates a forklift to unload semi-trucks containing raw and packaging materials, and transports items within the warehouse while maintaining cleanliness and organization.
- Material Handling: Unloads, stacks, and transports onion sacks (up to 50 bags at 50 pounds each, stacking to 6 feet and handling up to 3 loads per 8-hour shift) to designated storage or processing areas.
- Production Support: Counts and dumps onion sacks into cutting hoppers; collects scrap onions in carts and empties into trash compactors; stacks, bales, and stores burlap sacks as needed.
- Batter and Breading Management: Loads and elevates bags of batter/breading to the breading hopper room, and manually dumps 50 lb bags into hoppers for processing.
- General Housekeeping: Maintains cleanliness by removing excess scrap, sweeping or shoveling floors, flushing with water, and assisting with machinery cleaning across multiple plant areas.
- Product Traceability: Completes product recall tags for palletized products, verifies that packed product cases match recall tag counts, and enters all required production paperwork into the AS400 system in an accurate and timely manner.
- Supply Distribution: Ensures packaging areas are consistently stocked with raw materials and supplies.
- Cold Storage: Stacks cases onto pallets/slip sheets, stretch wraps, and transports finished and extruded onion ring products to cold storage as required.
- Additional Tasks: Performs other duties as assigned, consistently applying established sanitation and safety protocols.
- Ability to safely operate a forklift and perform strenuous manual labor.
- Familiarity with warehouse operations, organization, and sanitation practices.
- Capacity to lift and handle heavy materials repetitively throughout the shift.
- Attention to detail in recordkeeping and adherence to safety/quality procedures.
- Willingness and flexibility to rotate across different production areas as needed.
At McCain, we’re feeding the world: from French fries to cakes, we contribute to the important role food plays in people's lives. That’s why we’re dedicated to ensuring our core values—Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality—shine through every day. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in more than 160 countries, and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that we can work together, along with our business and community partners, to bring sustainable growth and positive change today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain!
Leadership Principles.
Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organization. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles.
We are customer-obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success.
We think big and plan ahead. Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success.
We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together.
We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.
The McCain Experience
We are McCain: this statement is about our power collectively and our importance individually—your impact is a significant part of the business. Our winning culture focuses on authenticity and trust so we can always bring out the best in our people. Here, you have the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive while being yourself. Join our team to see why we’re better together.
Compensation Package: Starting at $24.80 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/training, and other organizational needs.
Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and wellbeing at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & wellbeing 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. Wellbeing 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 benefit 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 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 : $25