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Forklift Operator
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McCain Foods
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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.
Position Details Position Title:
Forklift Operator Position Type:
Regular - Full-Time Requisition ID:
39980
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... Join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain!
Leadership 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.
Compensation Package Starting at $24.80 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/training, and other organizational needs.
Benefits At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and wellbeing at the heart of what we do, every day. Employees are eligible for health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Wellbeing programs include vacation and holidays, company‑supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with the collective agreement, country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit 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.
EEO & Accessibility Statement 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. 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. 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. You can understand how your personal information is being handled here.
Job Family Manufacturing
Location(s) US: Wisconsin, Rice Lake
Company McCain Foods USA, Inc.
Seniority Level Entry level
Employment Type Full‑time
Job Function Management and Manufacturing
Industries Food and Beverage Manufacturing
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Forklift Operator
role at
McCain Foods
2 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants
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.
Position Details Position Title:
Forklift Operator Position Type:
Regular - Full-Time Requisition ID:
39980
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... Join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain!
Leadership 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.
Compensation Package Starting at $24.80 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/training, and other organizational needs.
Benefits At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and wellbeing at the heart of what we do, every day. Employees are eligible for health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Wellbeing programs include vacation and holidays, company‑supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with the collective agreement, country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit 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.
EEO & Accessibility Statement 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. 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. 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. You can understand how your personal information is being handled here.
Job Family Manufacturing
Location(s) US: Wisconsin, Rice Lake
Company McCain Foods USA, Inc.
Seniority Level Entry level
Employment Type Full‑time
Job Function Management and Manufacturing
Industries Food and Beverage Manufacturing
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