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Job Title:  Delivery Helper - DAY SHIFT

Facility:  Northeast Dist. Center
Location: 

Piscataway, New Jersey, United States

Dawn Foods is a global leader in bakery manufacturing and ingredients distribution. As the partner of choice for inspiring bakery success, we help customers grow their business through meaningful partnerships, research-driven insights and innovations, and products and expertise they can depend on. As a family-owned company, our commitments to our people, products, customers, and corporate values, are all part of our recipe for success.

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Dawn Foods is a global leader in bakery manufacturing and ingredients distribution. As the partner of choice for inspiring bakery success, we help customers grow their business through meaningful partnerships, research-driven insights and innovations, and products and expertise they can depend on. As a family-owned company, our commitments to our people, products, customers, and corporate values, are all part of our recipe for success.

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Why work for Dawn Foods?

 

PEOPLE.    PRODUCTS.    CUSTOMERS.

 

Why should you apply? We invest in you!

  • Industry-leading health insurance on Day 1!
  • Competitive Pay $17.00/hour
  • 401(K) + company match
  • 10 Paid Company Holidays
  • Paid Time Off
  • Professional training
  • Family-owned business over 100 years in service
  • An opportunity for career advancement, working as part of an empowering workforce

 

Shift Schedule:

  • Monday – Friday
  • Start times range from 3:00 am – 5:00 am
  • Work day is ends when the route has been completed (Roughly 10-14 hour days)
  • Overtime and Weekends required based on business needs.

 

Job Purpose and Overview

As a Delivery Helper for Dawn Foods, you will be responsible to assist Dawn Drivers with the delivery of scheduled routes in a safe and productive manner. 

 

Dawn Foods will provide training and tuition reimbursement assistance to employees who are interest in attaining a Commercial Driver’s License, if interested and applicable.

 

 

What Does It Take to be a Delivery Helper at Dawn Foods?  

Below are the minimum qualifications to be a fit for this job.   

  • 6 months work related experience or 1-year non-related employment experience
  • Ability to work in the United States
  • Must be able to lift 50+ pound repeatedly 
  • Ability to operate MHE equipment
  • Lift-gate, reefer, electric pallet jack and forklift experience helpful
  • Computer skills helpful

 

What will you do as a Delivery Helper at Dawn Foods? 

  • Assist in navigating the roadway and identify potential hazards.
  • Assist in the rotation of our customers purchased product allowing for minimal damage or invoice error ratio. 
  • Responsible for removing all products from the truck at the end of the route and cleaning the trailer to eliminate any spillage or garbage that could affect the next day’s deliveries.
  • Dawn Foods will provide training and tuition reimbursement assistance to employees for the attainment of CDL Class A, if interested and applicable
  • Perform other related duties incidental to work described herein  
  • Support the Circle of Excellence and the Dawn Philosophy of Team Dawn  

 

Physical Demands & Work Environment 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

  • Required to use motor coordination with arm, hand, finger, and leg dexterity.
  • Required to exert physical effort in handling objects more than 50 pounds frequently.  
  • Specific vision abilities required by this job include distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus.
  • Ability to stand and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
  • Ability to withstand cool and/or cold temperatures.
  • Normal setting for this job is unloading trucks at customer locations, requiring indoor and outdoor exposure, potentially involving dirt, odors, noise and weather extremes.
  • Note: The level of physical effort may vary from site to site and in some cases be greater or lesser than documented here.

Note: The level of physical effort may vary from site to site and in some cases be greater or lesser than documented here. 

 

If this sounds like the opportunity that you have been looking for, please click "Apply.” 

 

About Our Benefits 

Dawn is proud to employ the top talent in the baking industry, and we reward our people with comprehensive health and well-being coverage, competitive compensation packages, and award-winning benefit offerings. We also help protect your future financial health with a generous 401(k) matching program that provides additional retirement funds and many tools and resources on financial wellness. Dawn encourages professional growth through tuition assistance and educational programs, and we are always searching for ways to improve our industry-leading services and benefits. 

 

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An Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other status or condition that is protected by applicable law.

 

Requisition ID: 36558

An Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Date:  Dec 3, 2024

If you need accommodation for any part of the employment process because of a disability, please send an email to careers@dawnfoods.com.

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