Forklift Operator Production Trainee

Title: Forklift Operator Production Trainee

Location: Boardman, OR

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.

Job Description Summary

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.

Job Description

• 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.

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 back machines.
• Monitors tote room activities and supplies empty totes, and remove filled totes.
• Assists palletizer operator with loading pallets in pallet dispenser as needed.
• Maintains adequate empty totes for all bulk‑off stations.

OTHER JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Maintains a clean and orderly work environment.
• Changes batteries on lift truck when required.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

• High School Diploma or GED. One month related experience or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.   Need to work with minimal supervision.

CERTIFICATION AND LICENSES:

• Must possess valid driver’s license.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals in English. 
• Ability to write routine reports and fill out forms in English. 
• Ability to speak effectively with other employees in the organization in English.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. 
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent.

REASONING ABILITY:

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. 
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.  
• Also must be able to memorize product codes, labels and bulk lot numbers.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls.  The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms and climb or balance.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

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-258119

Time Type: Full time

Anticipated Close Date: 08/09/2025

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: $24.82

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