JOB SUMMARY:
The Driver is responsible for making deliveries and driving various delivery vehicles, including but not limited to, box trucks and cargo vans.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES :
- Makes deliveries while providing a high level of customer service
- Completes all required vehicle inspections, driver logs and other paperwork as required
- Proactively communicates vehicle maintenance needs and all issues related to products and orders to DC leadership
- Shipment preparation - palletize, wrap, and band shipments as directed
- Ensures timely and accurate processing of order fulfillment – direct to consumer/wholesale distributors/stock transfers
- Follows and adheres to order fulfillment and scanning guidelines, maintaining focus and accountability on the movement of inventory through a handheld scanner
- Loads delivery vehicles and prepares route paperwork
- Ability to operate stand-up forklifts, sit-down forklifts, order selectors, and pallet jack
- Assists in meeting established KPI metrics as they apply
- Ensures all organizational safety rules and guidelines are followed
- Maintains a clean, safe work environment for all drivers and warehouse associates by practicing CAYGO (clean as you go)
- Performs other duties, as assigned
SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE:
- Ability to read, write and speak English fluently is required. Bilingual (Spanish) preferred
- Clean driving record is required and a valid state-issued Class C Driver’s License
- Prior warehouse/driving/delivery experience preferred
- HS/GED or 2+ years of WH/driving experience preferred
- Ability to stoop, bend and lift 50lbs
- Ability to work well under pressure in a team environment and effectively communicate with team members
WORKING CONDITIONS:
- Working conditions are that of a standard distribution center and delivery vehicle; employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles, outside weather conditions and high noise levels. Confined to a closed vehicle on a daily basis.
