Title: Manager Ag Operations

               

Location: Paterson, 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 10,000+ 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

               

Provides leadership and direction to the harvest department in organizing planting and harvesting schedules to accommodate production capacities and cropland availability. This position will communicate field and crop conditions to the Paterson Processing Facility to maximize yield and meet product quality goals. Minimize undesirable field conditions, noxious weeds, disease, pests, etc., while ensuring crops are grown and harvested responsibly and at minimum costs. 5 years related experience.

Job Description

Job Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the veggie sales department and Paterson Plant Management to develop a planting schedule by commodity that accommodates the pack plan, including ground selection, varieties, and planting/harvest dates.
• Promote safety throughout the entire Paterson Harvesting organization.
• Responsible for grower relations, including monitoring growing practices and necessary certifications for non-GMO and organic crops.
• Liaison between Growers and Plant Management
• Sample and evaluate crops before harvest, providing information to Farm Unit Managers and processing facility.
• Be acquainted with local/state/federal environmental regulations and ensure compliance with all operational permits.
• Oversee and recommend ground preparation and crop applications such as water, fertilizer, herbicide, and pesticides.
• Maintain records regarding ground, varieties, seasonality, or other information pertinent to a continuous improvement program.
• Contract vegetable acreage with growers for LW Paterson Frozen.
• Work closely with the Harvest Manager and Maintenance Manager to ensure successful harvesting of crop and equipment rebuild and harvest capabilities
• Liaison between the harvest department and the plant production department.
• Responsible for the harvest department budget and department metrics.
• Assist with planning and cost estimates for annual and longer-term capital budgets.
• Other duties as assigned to accomplish Company and Department objectives.
• This position reports directly to the Plant Manager.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

Position Requirements

• Bachelor's degree preferred in the agriculture field.
• Minimum five years of related experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to leverage computer software programs; strong Excel skills preferred.
• Valid driver’s license and driving record that meets Lamb Weston driving standards.

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-255430

               

Time Type: Full time

               

Anticipated Close Date: 11/08/2024

               

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: $98,770.00 - $148,160.00

               

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