Title: Quality Assurance Technician 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 The Q.A. Tech performs a variety of tasks at any one the five stations to assure that potatoes and potato products meet Company quality standards. The Q.A. Tech reports to the Q.A. Supervisor. Job Description Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned. * Perform all work safely and with the utmost concern for the safety of self and other employees. * Understand and comply with all safety policies and procedures. * Maintain a clean and orderly work environment as directed by plant policies and procedures. * Must have the ability to work overtime as required. * Must actively practice and abide by all company Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and general hygiene regulations as outlined in the employee handbook. * The Q.A. Tech II performs a variety of tasks at any one of the five stations to assure that potatoes and potato products meet company quality standards. * Perform attribute tests on both raw and finished products. * Helps to train Quality Assurance trainees. * Responsible for notifying the supervisors as detailed in the procedure manual. Competencies Physical Demands 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 frequently required to sit and walk through the plant. The employee is required to use hands to work on computers and reach with hands and arms to check equipment, take readings and lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. The employee will be required to stand, walk, bend at the knees, lean forward climb stairs, work on ladders. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and distance vision. The employee is ocassionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Work Environment The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. If requested reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly worker near moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals and extreme heat. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. The employee works primarily in an outdoor environment and in an office setting, where the noise level is usually quiet. However