The Morning Star Company, and its affiliates, operate three tomato processing facilities in Central California, processing 25% to 30% of the California crop, plus tomato transplanting, farming, harvesting and trucking operations. Employment, including truck driving jobs, is approximately 350 year-round and over 2,000 seasonal colleagues with annual sales exceeding $750 million. We are known worldwide for innovation and integrity.
Thinking about joining our team?
We offer opportunities to people who want to grow as professionals. We are organizationally structured through a system we term Mission-focused Management. Our company is operated by colleagues without titles or a hierarchy of designated authority. Each Colleague is expected to be the manager of their mission. Authority relative to other colleagues’ activities is lateral and based on their independent agreements. Each colleague’s Mission is their guiding principle of action, and respect, influence and success having to be built based on each colleague’s competency, integrity, effort, persistence and straight-forward persuasiveness. As we continue to grow, and while we communicate positions in commonly used terms, we intend to maintain a culture of individual responsibility and mission-focused management.
One-on-One Training Opportunities
Class A Truck Driver Training (Williams, CA & Los Banos, CA)
Morning Star Trucking will cover the cost of your one-on-one truck driver training, if you agree to drive for us this season.
Learn more about our one-on-one driver training.
Colleague Principles and Values.
Here at Morning Star, we pride ourselves on creating the highest level of commitment, which cultivates a reputation for honesty and integrity. Upon joining, our colleagues commit to the following:
Our Vision is to elevate our individual and organizational capabilities to flourish and advance human well-being for all by providing people with great products and services.
Mission Focused Management brings spontaneous order to our enterprise activities through each Colleague focusing on their Personal Commercial Mission.
Integrity – Keeping the commitments we make enables effective and efficient coordination.
Humility – Being conscious of our own shortcomings and being intellectually honest drives learning, our capabilities and excellent performance.
Value Creation – Focusing on understanding and meeting our customers’ requirements through strong relationships and continuous improvement result in creating additional value for all stakeholders–which is the fundamental purpose of business.
Challenge Culture – To the degree we challenge our processes, technology, products and each other’s activities, we improve our performance and ourselves.
Personal Responsibility and Initiative – We agree to take full, personal responsibility for our Personal Commercial Mission, for our performance, training, time commitments, and embracing our Principles and Values.
Human Respect and Information Exchange – Human respect underlies Self-Management, which includes a commitment to sharing all relevant information with all relevant Colleagues.
Tolerance is respecting other persons and their property in the face of differing views and utilizing persuasion to gain voluntary agreement.
Colleague Decisions and Coordination – We involve other Colleagues or other folks to assist in making decisions when:
A. They will be materially affected, and
B. They can bring materially relevant information and/or expertise.
Gaining Agreement with Direct Communications – We communicate operational or personal differences directly with Colleagues and follow our gaining agreement process to achieve understanding and coordination.
Doing what is right. Live, speak and endeavor to find the truth.
Job Opportunities
Seasonal Class A Driver (Williams, CA & Los Banos, CA)
Requirements
- At least 21 years of age by July 1
- Pass DOT physical and perform all job functions
- Pass pre-employment drug screen
- CA drivers license Class A
- Doubles and Triples endorsement
- K4 DMV printout
- Good driving record
Job Duration: July through September/October
Free Housing for drivers during the season!
Wages: $1,500 – $2,000 a week (includes end of season bonus)
Earn extra money as one of our drivers! Throughout the season, we give out incentives for driving safe. (Drivers must meet a minimum criteria that’s set up each season.)
Seasonal Shuttle Truck Drivers (Williams, CA & Los Banos, CA)
The Morning Star Trucking Company is looking for qualified applicants to operate a shuttle, hauling loaded tomato trailers within our facilities.
Job Duration: July through September/October.
Facility Operating Hours: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Shifts: 8-hour shifts. Day, night and swing shifts available.
Other positions available.
Interested in earning extra money? Refer a driver!
If you have previously worked for Morning Star Trucking, or are currently employed by Morning Star Trucking, you are eligible for a referral bonus! Make sure the person you are referring includes your name on their application under “How did you find out about this job?” (Additional restrictions apply.)
- Refer a Class A Driver to earn $500 at the start of the season, and another $500 if the person you referred finishes the season. A potential total of $1000!
- Refer a Class A Permit/Class C Driver to earn $250 at the start of the season, and another $250 if the person you referred finishes the season. A potential total of $500!