Full-Time Position Questions
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Seasonal Job Opportunity Questions
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The Morning Star Company, and its enterprises, operate three tomato processing facilities in Central California, processing over 35% of the California crop, plus tomato transplant growing, transplanting, agricultural technology innovation, harvesting, and trucking operations. Employment is approximately 550 year-round and over 2,500 seasonal colleagues with annual sales exceeding a billion dollars. We are known worldwide for our innovation and integrity.
We are organizationally structured through a system we term Mission Focused Self-Management. Our company is operated by colleagues without titles or an appointed hierarchy of authority. Leadership is dynamic and situational and is taken based on competency and integrity. Each Colleague has a personal commercial mission, “which is the manager.” They must think on their feet and solve problems quickly.
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 to realize the capability of each human being to flourish, treat others with Human Respect, and to productively work together to advance the well-being of mankind.
Mission Focused Self-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 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:
Gaining Agreement with Direct Communication - 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.
Colleague Decisions and Coordination - We involve other Colleagues or other folks to assist in making decisions when:
Full-Time Position Questions
Please contact the factories, trucking and/or Cal Sun offices directly. –> Contact Us
Seasonal Job Opportunity Questions
Please contact the factories, trucking and/or Cal Sun offices directly. –> Contact Us
Obtain useful skills to work towards a better future by obtaining your Class A license and receiving one-on-one training. Become a seasonal Class A tomato truck driver for The Morning Star Trucking Company today!
Harvard Business Review called Morning Star “The World’s Most Creatively Managed Company in the World” and highlighted that Morning Star Colleagues exhibit particularly high levels of: Initiative, Expertise, Loyalty, and Sense of Ownership.
“Transfer enables self-management by permitting colleagues to craft their own jobs. Transfer explains 82 percent of organizational trust.”
