Sanitation Laborer - Grave A & Grave B

Title: Sanitation Laborer - Grave A & Grave B

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

Using established cleaning procedures, chemicals, tools, and techniques, maintains sanitary conditions in the processing plant ensuring bacteria and housekeeping are at acceptable levels. Inspects, sorts, and removes defects from product being processed in a food production facility in a safe and effective manner. Takes direction from trim trainer and team leaders.

Job Description

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES – includes the following (other duties may be assigned): Maintains safe work practices at all times and participates in safety programs.

• Performs cleaning with the use of high-pressure hoses (air and hot water), tools such as scratch pads, brushes, sponges, squeegees, paper towels, shovels, brooms, buckets, wheelbarrows, carts, ladders, garbage cans, pallet jacks, flashlights, telephones and cleaning agents.

• Performs weekend clean-up as assigned . This requires a working knowledge of lock-out procedures and chemical and cleaning procedures.

• Operates all machinery safely in the assigned cleaning area using lock-outs when necessary.

• Removes static product, foreign material, and product buildup from equipment or areas which the team leader assigned by hand scrubbing, chemical foaming, shoveling, scraping, rinsing, and sweeping.

• Properly mixes and uses potentially hazardous chemicals to clean and sanitize. Operates pallet jacks for rock and product tote removal in receiving.

• Paints machinery, walls, etc. as directed.

• Participates in AMO drumbeats and other continuous improvement activities.

• Rotates to all General Labor workstations to complete assigned tasks.

• Quickly assesses and removes foreign materials and non-standard product from moving receiving and processing equipment as assigned using both hands.

• Hand sizes raw product on the trim line according to product specifications and Lamb Weston standards.

• Efficiently trims defects (cuts, rot, green, sugar ends, disease, etc...) from raw product to Lamb-Weston standards. Distributes product on processing equipment to maintain even product flow.

• Inspects raw product to ensure that it has been peeled, cut, cleaned, and blanched, ready for final inspection or packaging.

• Performs hand-packing as assigned.

• Inspects bags in packaging and removes defective bags to Lamb-Weston's standards.

• Reports any irregular cuts or malfunction of food processing equipment as quickly as possible to the lead or team leaders Rework cased product into totes.

• Resort and/or recycle used cases as assigned.

• Monitors equipment for plug-ups.

• Tote make-up and breakdown.

• Hand palletize cased product.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

• climb, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, as well as talk and hear. The employee must be able to work any or all areas of the plant.

• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 15 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 30 pounds, and 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.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to slippery, wet and/or humid conditions and toxic or hazardous chemicals. The employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles and tight confined spaces. The employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts, in high places, and is exposed to extreme heat and cold.

• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

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-258206

Time Type: Full time

Anticipated Close Date: 08/22/2025

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: $21.32

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