Position Purpose:
Operate company-owned and or leased trucks. Transports and delivers material between company warehouses/branches and/or customers.
Essential Job Functions & Physical Demands
Through previous background and experience, the candidate must be able to demonstrate, with or without an accommodation, the ability to:
Effectively respond to and interact with organizational staff and customers.
Receive, store and distribute materials and products.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job:
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear.
- This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day.
- The employee must frequently lift and/or move items over 50 pounds receptively and unassisted.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide outstanding customer service during delivery and pickup operations.
- Maintain all required certifications required by DOT and OSHA and company safety programs.
- Maintain and protect all property in excellent condition.
- Perform any other tasks assigned to support and improve the overall team operations.
- Read orders such as customer, work, shipping and transfer orders to determine products to be moved, gathered or distributed.
- Convey material and products from receiving area to storage or other designated areas.
- Assemble customer orders from stock and place on pallets or shelves; or convey orders to packing station or shipping department.
- Load, transport and deliver customer orders and branch transfers to specified branches.
- Responsibilities also include learning delivery area, checking orders for accuracy, executing cash management duties.
- Complete truck safety assessment for mechanical problems prior to beginning routes.
- Inspect truck supplies and equipment, including tires, lights, brakes, gas, oil, and water.
- Responsible for safe operations of all vehicles and communicating the maintenance and care of the Vehicle.
Required Skills
Additional Requirements:
- Strong mathematical skills to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, including fractions and decimals.
- Must be able to read and interpret invoices and packing slips.
- Must be able to lift at least 50 pounds unassisted.
- Must possess a current, valid Driver's License
- Must maintain violation free driving record.
Required Experience
Preferred Education and Experience:
- High School diploma or General Education Degree (G.E.D.)
- 1-2 years hands on delivery driver experience
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_ Equivalent combination of Education and Experience_
We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply.
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