Job Description

Title: Lab Technician

Location: Twin Falls, ID

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 9,000+ 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

This position is responsible for all information generated through the Q.A. systems being filed and recorded in an organized manner, reporting to the Q.A. Manager on the accuracy and completeness of daily records and any trends or deviations encountered through daily record review. This position performs all plant bacterial checks including sampling, sample preparation, reading samples and recording data. The Lab Technician must be able to work easily with all supervisors, operators, sanitation workers, and other Lab Technicians.

Job Description

• Accurately maintain quality attribute records, daily and year to date averages.
• Generate quality summaries/reports and distribute.
• Daily collecting, reviewing and filing of Q.A. data.
• Maintain inventories and fill out purchase requisitions for all lab materials and supplies.
• Accurately research Q.A. data in helping prepare reports.
• Aseptic collection and processing of certain samples for bacterial analysis.
• Maintain and provide written records of bacteria check results to supervisors and Q.A. Supervisor; this includes notification of supervisor when corporate standards are exceeded.
• Advise Q.A. Manager or on inventory levels of bacteria lab supplies and media.
• Maintain a file of all bacteria lab reports, be able to accurately key in information, generate reports and distribute to appropriate individuals.
• Perform any special projects assigned.
• Maintain a neat and clean work area at all times, and exhibit good personal hygiene.
• Perform all other duties assigned/requested by Q.A. Manager and/or Supervisor.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to communicate effectively in English, including reading, writing, and speaking.
• Ability to effectively present information to supervisors and other employees.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Must be able to use a computer for data entry, report generation, and research.

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-234734

Time Type: Full time

Anticipated Close Date: 05/30/2024

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: $21.78

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