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Job Summary/Overview:Ā The purpose of a Delivery Driver is to operate our trucks locally in a safe and efficient manner in order to deliver/transport products to our customers. A Driver may also return freight picked up from various vendors to Golden Organics/Loco foods facility (back haul).Ā
Essential duties/responsibilities:
- Load and unload trucks
- Collect money from customers and ensure they signed off after receipt of delivery
- Provide quality customer service through positive and professional interaction
- Perform pre-and post-trip inspection on the truck and trailer for safe operation of vehicle
- Communicate with supervisor to receive work orders and products, maintain delivery schedule, verify loads, report delivery issues, and check-in during travel stopsĀ
- Interact and communicate with customers and vendors to verify delivery loads, place or position products, receive backhauls, and complete transaction documentation
- Unload products from trailer and deliver to customerās storage facility using manual and powered pallet jacks
- Use document proof of delivery and facilitate invoicing
- Read and interpret work orders, safety instructions, and manuals
- Strictly adhere to product and temperature sensitive protocols when transporting, re-loading, and securing product for transport
- Comply with all requirements of the food safety and quality management system. Report any food safety or quality issues to a Food Safety/SQF team member at the time the issue occurs.
- Maintain manual or electronic log booksĀ
- Safely secure vehicle during each customer stop
- Strictly adhere to driving regulations and apply skills when maneuvering vehicle in all situations.
- Follow proper stacking and storing of products and goods; secure loads in between deliveries using load bars and straps; utilize product and storage shape and sizing for optimization of load
- Must meet established on-time delivery deadlines and have the ability to work under minimal supervision
- Must maintain cleanliness of vehicle each day and before checking in with dispatch at the end of your shift
- Report to warehouse after delivery route for additional warehouse duties that may need to be completed
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Other duties and Responsibilities:
- Operate vehicle in a variety of traffic and weather conditions
- Meet or exceed minimum productivity levels established by the Company
- Meet or exceed established cases per error goals
- Demonstrate strong customer relations and problem resolution skills
- Effectively plan and organize work activities independent of direct supervision
- Develop a good working knowledge of product and inventory control techniques and procedures
- Maintain ongoing inter-department communications related to routing, safety, and customers
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Job Requirements and Qualifications:
Education: High School Diploma/GED preferred
Experience:
- Commercial driving experience or three months foodservice or food and beverage delivery experience preferred.Ā
- Experience delivering food products preferred.Ā
- Good driving record (MVR required).
Ā Other Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Physical activities: climbing, bending, stooping, kneeling, twisting, reaching, sitting, standing, walking, lifting up to 75 pounds of material on consistent basis, repetitive motions.Ā
- Must be able to read, write, and communicate in English as it relates to the job and to the safety regulations.Ā
- Must have basic math skills (add, subtract, multiply, divide) and ability to work with money collected from customers to ensure the amount collected matches the invoiced amount.Ā
Work Environment/Other information (travel required, physical requirements, on-call schedules, etc.):
- Overtime hours, working occasional weekends and holidays, and starting at various early morning start times are required
- Frequently reach up to 72 inches to stack and unstack pallets and use hand carts and pallet jacks
- At times, transport product down ramps, stairs, or docks, in all weather conditions
- Required to wear steel toed or composite toed shoes
- The work is performed primarily outdoors, but other duties are performed in the warehouse
- Full Benfits
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