Process Mechanic III

Lamb Weston, Inc.; Pasco (WA); On-site; USD 71,635,000 - 91,693,000; Full time

Job summary

Lamb Weston, Inc. is seeking routine and non-routine repair and maintenance of process equipment at our facility. The role involves working on equipment across the production line, ensuring reliability and uptime.

The ideal candidate has basic mechanical aptitude and willingness to expand skills in maintenance and safety procedures. Responsibilities include safe operations, preventive maintenance, lubrication, and documentation of activities to sustain plant efficiency and throughput.

Qualifications

• Must have basic mechanical aptitude and eagerness to expand knowledge.
• Experience with processing equipment, electrical troubleshooting, and welding is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Maintains and promotes safe work practices at all times across all work groups.
• Performs assigned duties in a safe and satisfactory manner.
• Complies with all known procedures, rules, and policies in the Employee Handbook.
• Performs corrective and preventive maintenance including lubrication and inspection to sustain equipment reliability.
• Performs safe isolation, shutdown, inspection, adjustment, repair/overhaul or startup of equipment and systems as needed for learning and defect correction.
• Conducts troubleshooting of mechanical, electrical and pneumatic issues to identify and fix defects.
• Removes, installs, disassembles, repairs and re-assembles plant components to ensure optimal operation.
• Documents corrective and preventive maintenance, including lubrication/inspection activities (SAP, belts forms, FM forms, etc.).

Skills

Mechanical aptitude

Electrical troubleshooting

Welding

Job description

About Lamb Weston

You’ve probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, 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

• Is responsible for the routine and non-routine repair and maintenance of process equipment and systems.
• Has some basic mechanical aptitude to build on and an eagerness to expand their knowledge and to build skills in the repair and maintenance of process equipment and department systems in compliance with established Company standards. Process equipment and systems include but is not limited to receiving, sorting, conveying, pumping, weighing, peeling, scrubbing, blanching, cutting, drying, battering and frying.
• Prior experience with processing equipment, electrical troubleshooting, and welding is a definite advantage.
• Will develop the skills necessary to repair process equipment and perform maintenance activities that improves and sustains equipment reliability to maximize plant production and uptime.
• Must be able to work the scheduled days, shifts, times and overtime required for this position.

Job Description

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following, other duties may be assigned.

• Maintains and promotes safe work practices at all times, assures that safe work practices are being followed in all work groups, and actively participates in safety programs.
• To the best of their ability performs assigned duties and responsibilities in a safe and satisfactory manner.
• Must understand and comply with all known posted or generally accepted instructions, procedures, rules, practices, policies or other items covered in the Employee Handbook.
• To the best of their ability performs corrective and preventive maintenance including the lubrication and inspection of equipment within scope of responsibility to sustain and improve equipment reliability.
• To the best of their ability performs the safe isolation, shut down, inspection, adjustment, repair/overhaul or startup of equipment and systems within scope of responsibility with the mindset of learning to identify defects, learning to identify the reason for the failure, and then take corrective action to eliminate a recurring failure.
• To the best of their ability performs the troubleshooting of mechanical, electrical and pneumatic issues to identify defects and to take corrective action to correct the failure.
• To the best of their ability performs and documents the removal, installation, disassembly, repair, and re-assembly of plant components and equipment as needed to obtain optimal, reliable and sustainable operation.
• Documents corrective maintenance and preventive maintenance including the lubrication and inspection of equipment to improve and sustain equipment reliability. Documentation may include but is not limited to SAP, Belt Tracking form, FM form, BDE