What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Lead Trainee position at Lamb Weston?
Title : Production Lead Trainee
Location : Boardman, OR
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
Oversee the shift operations that include packaging, sanitation, maintenance, QA and warehouse to meet plant goals.
Job Description
- Observe and monitor shift safety practices; coach and mentor team members to ensure employee compliance, reduce risks and hazards, as well as comply with policies and procedures.
- Product / Packaging Quality leadership in coordination with QA Leads and Technicians to ensure quality standards are met.
- Observe and monitor shift production in order to assist operators in identifying and solving problems. Have a positive impact on throughput for all production lines.
- Actively participate in, and lead continuous improvement efforts. Identify and implement improvement ideas.
- Aggressively apply lean manufacturing methods to solve operational problems. Help others learn and apply lean manufacturing methods.
- Provide input to the development of equipment, position and systems training standards. Assist with training standard reviews and implementation. Become a qualified signer on primary and auxiliary equipment normally operated by your crew.
- Demonstrate exceptional paperwork accuracy.
- Maintain production throughput (attainment) of 100% of current standard or better on all production lines qualified.
- Maintain a first-pass quality rate of 99.6% or better.
- Assist with implementation of new equipment. Attend pre-installation training and checkout. Participate in new equipment evaluation, testing and start up.
- Openly exhibit the plant operating principles of Safety, Quality and then Production. Set the example through the Ways We Lead; IE - Positive Intent, Recognition and Follow Up - through your own actions and interactions with others. Lead by example to bring out the best behavior in others around you.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Basic & Preferred Qualifications
Skills & Experience
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 :
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-256629
Time Type : Full time
Anticipated Close Date : 02 / 14 / 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 : $26.50
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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