Agricultural Seasonal CDL Drivers

Seneca Foods is one of North America's leading providers of packaged fruits and vegetables with facilities located throughout the United States. Our high quality products are primarily sourced from over 1,400 American farms. Seneca holds the largest share of the retail private label, food service, and export canned vegetable markets, distributing to over 90 countries. Products are also sold under the brands of Libby's, Aunt Nellie's, READ, Seneca Farms, Green Valley, Green Giant (Shelf-Stable), CherryMan, Paradise, Pennant, and Seneca labels, including Seneca snack chips. Seneca also provides vegetable products to other companies under various co-pack arrangements.

Agricultural Seasonal CDL Drivers

Seneca Foods in Gillett, WI is currently seeking an Agricultural Seasonal CDL Drivers to join our team.

Position Summary:

Perform daily pre & post trip inspection on vehicle and trailer. Document/report all safety items that need to be addressed in the Inspection book. Fuel truck, wash windows, mirrors, lights, and clean interior of truck as needed. Inspection form dropped off daily in the AG shop at the designated area at the end of shift. Other duties as assigned.

Essential Job Functions: Large Semi Trucks

• Drive large semi-trucks (26,001 pounds and higher)
• Haul raw product and take empty trailers to designed fields and wait to be loaded.
• Receive load ticket, verify load is secure, transport load and load ticket back to Gillett.
• Unhook trailer on loading pad and delivery load ticket to scale house.

Essential Job Functions: Large Straight Trucks

• Haul wastewater.
• Proceed to go to spray field and unload.
• Ensure that documentation, log sheet is accurate. Delivering log sheet to the AG shop.
• Ensure correct field and direction is being used.

Qualifications:

• Proven work experience as a truck driver.
• Valid Class A CDL commercial driver license with tanker endorsement (or Canadian provincial or Mexican federal equivalent).
• Extensive knowledge of applicable truck driving rules and regulations.
• Adaptability and foresight to handle unexpected situations (traffic, weather conditions etc.).
• No recent moving or driving violations.

Physical Qualifications:

• Driving environment: 70-80% of on-duty time will be in the truck.
• Exposed to noise and vibration levels which may be higher than those experienced in passenger cars.
• Drivers may also spend some time outdoors, exposed to potentially difficult environmental conditions.
• Communicates orally with management, employees, co-workers, vendors, and the public by telephone or in person, in one-on-one or group settings.
• Regularly uses a telephone.
• Required to stand, walk, and sit for extended periods of time during work shift.
• Routinely required to stoop, bend, kneel, lift, and reach, in the performance of job function
• Vision requirements include close and distance vision, color vision, peripheral and depth vision, and the ability to adjust focus as needed.
• Requires the essential use of hands, speech, eyesight, and hearing.
• Must be able to pass random and required drug and alcohol tests. Drug screening is post-offer, post-hire, can be random and is at no cost to the worker.

Working Conditions

• Outdoors, vehicle cabs, crop field environment.

Seneca Foods Corporation is committed to providing equal opportunity for all, through a positive and continuing affirmative action program. No employee or applicant will be discriminated against because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, military and/or veteran status or any other Federal or State legally protected classes. Seneca Foods Corporation will make reasonable accommodations for known physical or mental limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants with disabilities unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If you are interested in applying for an employment opportunity and feel you need a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), please contact us at ADA@senecafoods.com or call 585-495-4100.