Delivery Driver

About the role

The purpose of this classification is to perform work functions associated with delivery and warehouse activities. The person in this classification will load/unload trucks and drive delivery truck to deliver merchandise to customer's home or business.

Responsibilities

• Drives truck in assigned zone or area to deliver products purchased by customer; ensures safe operations of vehicles by assisting delivery truck drivers with directing trucks into unloading areas.
• Loads truck in preparation for daily deliveries; unloads merchandise at customer location and sets up as necessary.
• Obtains customer signature on receipt for pickup or delivery.
• Records deliveries on delivery record and submits to appropriate management.
• Monitors proper maintenance of and regular inspection of vehicles for adherence to safety practices; performs general maintenance of vehicles; records fuel/fluid usage and submits to management.
• Unloads merchandise from warehouse and freight trucks.
• Maintains cleanliness of store/warehouse interior and grounds and upholds the company's Delivery Standards.
• Places stock on shelves or racks and sets up merchandise and sales promotion displays.
• Assembles merchandise as required.
• Assists with repossessions of goods.
• Performs general maintenance and grounds keeping duties for warehouse and/or store.
• Performs customer service inspections and/or repairs as needed.
• Performs collection field calls to delinquent customers at the request of management.
• Upholds and promotes our H.O.M.E. values: Helping others, developing Ordinary people to do extraordinary things, being a Motivated owner that cares, and Ensuring that excellence is a habit personally and for those entrusted to them to lead.
• Assists in other store departments as required.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED; six months experience in a distribution or warehouse environment; or any combination of training, experience and education which provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities for this position.
• Must possess and maintain a valid State Drivers License and have a general familiarity with the delivery area.
• Must be able to meet DOT requirements (examples: Medical Examiners Certification and Driver's DOT qualification file).

Performance Aptitudes:

• Data Utilization: Requires the ability to assemble, process and tabulate data according to a prescribed plan.
• Human Interaction: Requires the ability to provide guidance, assistance, and/or interpretation to others regarding the application of procedures and standards to specific situations.
• Equipment, Machinery, tools, and Materials Utilization: Requires the ability to operate equipment, machinery, tools, and/or materials requiring complex and rapid adjustments.
• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference and/or descriptive data and information.
• Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; may require the ability to calculate decimals and utilize principles of fractions.
• Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagrammatic form. Involves semi-routine standardized work with some latitude for independent judgment concerning choices of action.
• Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in dealing with situations involving repetitive or short cycle operations or duties carried out according to set procedures.

Physical Requirements

• Physical Ability: Tasks require the ability to exert heavy physical effort, regularly involving some combination of climbing and balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching and/or crawling and which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of moderately heavy weight (up to 100 pounds) and occasionally involving handling heavier objects (in excess of 100 pounds).
• Sensory Requirements: Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate colors or shades of colors, sounds, depth, and visual cues or signals. Some tasks require the ability to communicate orally.
• Environmental Factors: Performance of essential functions may require exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, temperature extremes, electric currents or toxic agents/chemicals.