Handpacker Co-Product - Days B
Lamb Weston

Title: Handpacker Co-Product - Days B

Location: Richland, WA

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 position is responsible for the inspection of visible blemishes, misshapen units, and the insurance of a sound quality product. This position also requires being actively engaged in safety, participating in safety programs, engaged in safety activities, requires performing risk assessments and demonstrating ownership as well as leadership in personal safety and the safety of other Team Members.

Job Description

Individuals in this position must:

• Participate in the safety engagement process. This includes giving I Care huddles, conducting area assessments, and addressing all safety concerns with the Production Team Lead.
  

• Monitor conditions of both the primary and secondary containers when necessary
  

• Monitor the line is operating smoothly and help where necessary
  

• Put kwik locks onto drop bags when necessary
  

• Add crude trays to the tray maker when necessary; unplug tray maker when necessary
  

• Fold stickers and place into secondary container when spec calls
  

• Ensure product is trayed and cased correctly and efficiently with minimal amount of waste
  

• Ensure the shrink wrap, drop bags and overall condition of the pack wrap is in good condition prior to casing; help train new personnel in the position of co-product hand pack
  

• Ensure the secondary containers have the appropriate case amount in accordance with customer and case specifications; strip out product to garbage when necessary
  

• Maintain good housekeeping in his/her assigned area: Sweep with a broom and/or squeegee and shovel
  

• Inform the Supervisor immediately of any finished product change, excessive waste, and/or any unusual condition
  

• Report any personnel problems, safety violations or hazards, infractions of plant rules, etc. to the Supervisor; Rework damaged or restricted cases and bags of product
  

• Inspect cooked frozen potato products at the frozen inspection station at the exit of the spiral freeze tunnel
  

• Ensure trays are sleeved in a poly bag and placed in a case when necessary
  

• Perform all other duties assigned/requested by the team lead or supervisor.
  

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

Qualifications & Experience

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for this job. To successfully perform this job and individual must:

• Sanitation qualified preferred, but not required.
  

• High School Diploma or GED preferred
  

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the functions of this job. While performing the duties of the job, the employee:

• Is required to stand for long periods of time and must be able to move quickly; good eye-hand coordination, able to reach, push and pull with hands and arms; ability to safety lift up to 35 lbs.
  

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-256585

Time Type: Full time

Anticipated Close Date: 02/09/2025

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: $19.42

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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