General Labour

Title: General Labour

Location: Taber, AB

Country: Canada

About Lamb Weston

Lamb Weston is a leading supplier of frozen potato, sweet potato, appetizer and vegetable products to restaurants and retailers around the world. For more than 60 years, we’ve produced innovative, inventive products that make life better for our customers and their customers.

Job Description Summary

Our Taber plant is looking for new team members that are dedicated, hard working and ambitious people to help us continue to perform at the highest level possible and achieve our goals. You will be challenged to take responsibility, drive results, show creativity, and display initiative - and you will be rewarded for your contributions and impact. When you choose a career with us, every day is fry-day

This position will work a 12-hour compressed work week schedule from 7PM-7AM, with the possibility of advancement and shift changes in accordance with the company's advancement opportunities procedure.

**Job Description**:
Our General Labour team is responsible for a wide variety of jobs including inspecting and sorting raw product, frozen product, handling finished product cases for rework, conduct clean-up and sanitation duties, and more. This position requires long periods of standing, sitting, and repetitive use of hand/arms to sort through product. Must be able to scan and look for defects or foreign material while standing for long periods of time. These jobs may occur in any area of the plant or, on occasion, may require working in raw product storages or potato fields. These jobs require good physical stamina and are labor intensive in an often fast-paced work environment.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must have acceptable work performance; must demonstrate safe work practices and have a safe work record; satisfactory attendance; and be able to safely perform each essential duty. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Job duties include:

- Trims and inspects product appropriately.
- Removes any foreign material found during transfers and inspections, then notifies supervisor immediately if glass, metal and/or any other foreign material is found.
- Maintain sanitation in the work area as needed
- Clean work area as determined necessary (using the designated cleaning equipment and supplies as well as a high pressure water hose). Clean plant equipment as assigned during plant clean up.
- Operates process equipment and performs duties such as: Loading and unloading materials, parts, or products onto or from pallets, skids, conveyors, or trucks.
- Assists packaging operators.
- Assists as a fire watch attendant.
- Attend and/or complete mandatory safety training courses.
- Strips out product as necessary.
- Operate bulk blend back equipment.
- Snow removal.
- Assists field samplers.
- Cleans around work areas; assists sanitation laborers, maintain good housekeeping.
- Maintains/Promotes safe work practices at all times.
- Fully participates in daily safety engagement.
- Fill out, maintain and sign all applicable documentation and administration forms for verification purposes.
- Communicate with process operators, sanitation leaders and supervisors as needed.
- Understand and comply with a strict company Lock-Out Tag-Out safety policy.
- Other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

TRAINING PERIOD:

- 480 hours of work (probation period)
- During the probation period the employee must work 14 working shifts as a Sanitation II
- During the probation period the employee must work 14 working shifts conducting Trim and Inspect duties

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
- High school/GED education required.
- One month related experience or training or more.

LANGUAGE SKILLS
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, training materials, short correspondence, and memos.
- Ability to accurately complete required documentation and correspondence.
- Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to supervisors, co-workers and other employees of the organization.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.

REASONING ABILITY
- or two-step instructions.
- Ability to deal with standardized situations with only occasional or no variables.

CLASSIFICATIONS, CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
- Must obtain and maintain WHMIS Certification (training provided by the company)

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
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