Forklift Operator - 2nd shift

McCain Foods Limited; Town of Rice Lake (WI); On-site; USD 30,000 - 43,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Retirement benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

McCain Foods USA, Inc. in Rice Lake, Wisconsin is seeking a Backup Forklift Operator for the 2nd shift. You will operate a forklift, manage material handling, and support production in a fast-paced food manufacturing environment.

The role requires lifting heavy loads, adherence to sanitation and safety standards, and flexibility to rotate across production areas. 2nd shift hours are 3pm–11pm, Monday through Friday.

Qualifications

• Ability to safely operate a forklift and perform strenuous manual labor.
• Familiarity with warehouse operations, organization, and sanitation practices.
• Capacity to lift and handle heavy materials repetitively throughout the shift.
• Attention to detail in recordkeeping and adherence to safety/quality procedures.
• Willingness and flexibility to rotate across different production areas as needed.

Responsibilities

• Forklift Operation: Safely operates a forklift to unload semi-trucks containing raw and packaging materials, and transports items within the warehouse.
• Material Handling: Unloads, stacks, and transports onion sacks (up to 50 bags at 50 pounds each) to designated storage or processing areas.
• Production Support: Counts and dumps onion sacks into cutting hoppers; collects scrap onions in carts and empties into trash compactors; stacks, bales, and stores burlap sacks as needed.
• Batter and Breading Management: Loads and elevates bags of batter/breading to the breading hopper room, and manually dumps 50 lb bags into hoppers for processing.
• General Housekeeping: Maintains cleanliness by removing excess scrap, sweeping or shoveling floors, flushing with water, and assisting with machinery cleaning across multiple plant areas.
• Product Traceability: Completes product recall tags for palletized products, verifies that packed product cases match recall tag counts, and enters all required production paperwork into the AS400 system in an accurate and timely manner.
• Supply Distribution: Ensures packaging areas are consistently stocked with raw materials and supplies.
• Cold Storage: Stacks cases onto pallets/slip sheets, stretch wraps, and transports finished and extruded onion ring products to cold storage as required.
• Additional Tasks: Performs other duties as assigned, consistently applying established sanitation and safety protocols.

Skills

Forklift operation

Manual labor

Warehouse hygiene

Recordkeeping

Flexibility

Job description

Position Title

Forklift Operator - 2nd shift

Position Type

Regular - Full-Time

Requisition ID

45338

About The Role

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy. Under limited supervision, the Backup Forklift Operator is responsible for supporting plant operations by performing a range of physically demanding manual tasks that require the operation of a forklift and adherence to safety and sanitation standards. This position rotates among receiving, onion hoppers, breading hopper room, and the freezer areas, ensuring production flows smoothly and efficiently. This role will require a working schedule on 2nd shift. Monday-Friday 3pm to 11pm.

Accountabilities

• Forklift Operation: Safely operates a forklift to unload semi-trucks containing raw and packaging materials, and transports items within the warehouse while maintaining cleanliness and organization.
• Material Handling: Unloads, stacks, and transports onion sacks (up to 50 bags at 50 pounds each, stacking to 6 feet and handling up to 3 loads per 8-hour shift) to designated storage or processing areas.
• Production Support: Counts and dumps onion sacks into cutting hoppers; collects scrap onions in carts and empties into trash compactors; stacks, bales, and stores burlap sacks as needed.
• Batter and Breading Management: Loads and elevates bags of batter/breading to the breading hopper room, and manually dumps 50 lb bags into hoppers for processing.
• General Housekeeping: Maintains cleanliness by removing excess scrap, sweeping or shoveling floors, flushing with water, and assisting with machinery cleaning across multiple plant areas.
• Product Traceability: Completes product recall tags for palletized products, verifies that packed product cases match recall tag counts, and enters all required production paperwork into the AS400 system in an accurate and timely manner.
• Supply Distribution: Ensures packaging areas are consistently stocked with raw materials and supplies.
• Cold Storage: Stacks cases onto pallets/slip sheets, stretch wraps, and transports finished and extruded onion ring products to cold storage as required.
• Additional Tasks: Performs other duties as assigned, consistently applying established sanitation and safety protocols.

Qualifications

• Ability to safely operate a forklift and perform strenuous manual labor.
• Familiarity with warehouse operations, organization, and sanitation practices.
• Capacity to lift and handle heavy materials repetitively throughout the shift.
• Attention to detail in recordkeeping and adherence to safety/quality procedures.
• Willingness and flexibility to rotate across different production areas as needed.

About McCain

At McCain, we’re feeding the world: from French fries to cakes, we contribute to the important role food plays in people's lives. That’s why we’re dedicated to ensuring our core values—Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality—shine through every day. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in more than 160 countries, and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that we can work together, along with our business and community partners, to bring sustainable growth and positive change today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain!

Leadership Principles

Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organization. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles.

We are customer-obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success.

We think big and plan ahead. Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success.

We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together.

We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.

The McCain Experience

We are McCain: this statement is about our power collectively and our importance individually—your impact is a significant part of the business. Our winning culture focuses on authenticity and trust so we can always bring out the best in our people. Here, you have the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive while being yourself. Join our team to see why we’re better together.

Compensation Package

Starting at 26.45 USD hourly + Bonus eligibility + Hourly Pay Differential for applicable shifts

The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy.

Benefits

At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support, including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with applicable law and can vary by work level, location, and nature of the role. Additional benefits details available during the application process.

Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home.

Equal Opportunity

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Accessible Employer

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.

Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here.

Job Family

Manufacturing

Location(s)

US - United States of America : Wisconsin : Rice Lake

Company

McCain Foods USA, Inc.