Forklift Operator Production

About Lamb Weston

You’ve probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, and public Fortune 500 company, we inspire and bring people together with foods they love and trust. Our customer base includes international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries around the world.

A highly innovative global corporation with a start‑up mindset, we empower every individual to make a genuine difference. You’ll gain access to hands‑on training to fuel your growth and success, explore opportunities for new solutions, and you’ll join a winning team of 10,000+ people all dedicated to raising the bar – together.

If you have a strong drive for results, a desire to help us bring the world together through our fries, and are ready for a fresh challenge, we want to hear from you.

Shift
- Nights A

SUMMARY:

Receives instructions from the warehouse lead and utilizes the knowledge of plant and warehouse operating procedures to expeditiously and effectively carry out assignments driving a powered industrial truck equipped with lifting devices such as forklift and clamps to lift, stack, tier or move products, equipment, or materials. Must efficiently maintain supplies to production as well as transfer packaged product to cold storage areas.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following (other duties may be assigned):

• Maintains safe work practices at all times and participates in safety programs.
• Knows safety rules and regulations for lift truck operation.
• Inspects the lift truck prior to operation and reports any deficiency.
• Moves levers and presses pedals to drive truck and control movement of lifting apparatus.
• Positions forks, lifting platform, or other lifting device under, over, or around loaded pallets, skids, boxes, products, or materials and transports load to designated area.
• Unloads and stacks material by raising and lowering lifting device.
• Understand information is on the manifest tickets and how this information applies to their responsibilities.
• Understand the procedure for “First In First Out” procedures.
• Loads and unloads materials onto or off of pallets, skids, or lifting device as needed.
• Maintains bulk repacks.
• Reports all equipment failures and mechanical problems to appropriate personnel.
• Completes forms in accurate, timely and legible manner and can identify cases, labels, cuts, colors, catalog numbers, day codes and acceptable case conditions.
• Knows procedures for battery changes.
• Will rotate through all position within Job title.
• Any other task as directed by Warehouse Manager, Warehouse Lead or Team Leaders.

Load Out

• Lock out-tag out procedures for dock locks.
• Knows procedures for unloading and loading Semi‑trailers.
• Keeps the loading dock clear.
• Knows procedures for loading and unloading rail cars.
• Keeps area clean.
• Stages product to be loaded.
• Prepares Paperwork.
• Use computer to scan tickets for loads.
• Able to operate the “Push Pull” attachment.

Waste Driver

• Supplies DM, batter, SAPP, condiment, and sugars for processing.
• Removes filled waste carts and totes from the plant areas.
• Empties out waste carts and totes into waste hopper.
• Sanitizes waste carts, wastes totes, and lift truck as needed.
• Keeps waste area clean and organized.
• Knows FIFO procedures.

Freezer Driver

• Maintains sanitation duties in the freezer.
• Transports finished goods or tote product to or from zero‑degree cold storage bays in warehouse and able to withstand cold storage temperatures for extended periods.
• Stacks good or restricted cased product and supplies rework with restricted product.
• Communicates with manifestor on what inventories, and which items to blend, to rework, and which items to put away in the freezer.
• Communicates when bay transfers are needed, and which bay to transfer to.
• Monitors freezer rollers and keeps them from backing up the line.
• Removes hand‑stacked pallets from the hand palletizing area.
• Replaces cases opened by Q.A.

Bulk Driver

• Sorts and stacks excess bulk and supplies packaging with bulk blend.
• Supplies pallets to the palletizing area.
• Sort the Bulk.
• Return bulk to freezer.

Tote Room Driver

• Supplies totes to add…