Engineering Technician I
Lamb Weston

Title: Engineering Technician I

Location: Connell, WA

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

As a part of the plant engineering team, the engineering technician will aide in creating and maintaining technical drawings and plans for engineers and other plant teams involved in the design and construction process.

Job Description

• Plan, develop, and design layouts of processing lines and other plant modifications. Works from design specifications, engineer's directions or sketches, or other limited information where designs are not established.
  
• Make the necessary calculations to establish electrical and mechanical clearances.
  
• Calculate loads, on beams, columns, balcony loads, and similar items.
  
• Modify designs of existing lines to achieve simplicity and efficiency in manufacturing processes.
  
• Assume responsibility for complete and accurate drawings and present recommendations to Engineering Manager.
  
• Prepare bills of materials, material cost estimates, and equipment specifications. Assist Engineering Manager or Project Engineer with capital projects by monitoring their progress, compliance with standards, and recommending corrective actions.
  
• Assist with implementation and control of capital budget as directed.
  
• Assist with 5-year capital plan: preparation, organization and presentation
  
• Maintains all drawings
  
• Initiate building permit requests with city and county officials to obtain application approval.
  
• Keep abreast of state-of-the-art technology and equipment and make recommendations for the purchase when justified. Requires working knowledge of company safety policies, fire protection policies, building codes, regulations, and corporate requirements to ensure conformance with these regulations.
  
• Basic and Preferred Qualifications
  
• Two years of technical training in drafting, strength of materials. Three to five years' experience including three years as detail draftsman and one year using computer aided drafting
  
• Plan, develop, and design layouts of processing lines and other plant modifications. Works from design specifications, engineer's directions or sketches, or other limited information where designs are not established.
  
• Develop FEL (Front End Loading) documents such as Block Flow Diagrams, P&IDs, Gantt Charts, and other deliverables.
  
• Create Purchase Requests and perform basic accounting tasks related to project execution.
  
• Support Project Engineer by scheduling resources for project execution such as contract labor and firewatch.
  
• Create, review, and approve proper safety documentation such as Hot Work permits, Pre-Task Plans, and Confined Space permits.
  
• Assist Engineering Manager or Project Engineer with capital projects by monitoring their progress, compliance with standards, and recommending corrective actions.
  

SAFETY

Must have complete knowledge and demonstrate plant safety rules including the lockout-tagout procedure, confined space entry, chemical hazards, and the hearing conservation program. While performing task is expected to identify risk to themselves and others and modify task to mitigate these risks to insure a safe outcome. Is expected to properly use PPE as it relates to maintenance tasks and operating specialized maintenance tools and equipment. Must have good personal hygiene and be able to practice safe work habits

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field, preferred. Relevant work experience may be substituted for a degree
  
• Experience using Computer Aided Drafting software is required
  
• Experience in project management is preferred
  
• Experience in food processing preferred
  
• Two years of technical training in drafting, strength of materials and one year using computer aided drafting equipment.
  
• Experience preferably in a frozen potato manufacturing environment. 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.
  
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
  
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
  
• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts; in high, precarious places and in outside weather conditions and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, extreme cold, extreme heat, risk of electrical shock, risk of radiation, and vibration.
  
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
  

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-234052

Time Type: Full time

Anticipated Close Date: 03/16/2024

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 posted based on various factors, including, but not limited to, job duties, experience and expertise. A candidate's work location could also impact the actual compensation being outside of the range to reflect local cost of labor. A reasonable annual estimate of the range for this role based on the variables previously mentioned is: $45,560.00 - $68,340.00

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

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