Route Assistant

About the role

Start your career path to become a Class A CDL driver. As a Route Assistant, you’ll gain industry knowledge while assisting drivers in delivering beer. This position provides training to obtain a commercial driver’s license (CDL-A) and can lead motivated individuals into sales leadership roles. This is a local position.

Responsibilities

• Assist the driver in counting inventory on the truck and at each account during deliveries.
• Help with product deliveries by reviewing pick sheets, pulling products from bays, stacking them on a dolly, and wheeling them into accounts.
• Assist the driver with account transactions and end-of-day settlement procedures.
• Follow Corporate Sales and Merchandising Standards to ensure proper merchandising, including restocking, minor space adjustments, building displays, and placing P.O.S. materials.
• Maintain good customer service relations by ensuring orderly backrooms and shelves, timely deliveries, and respectful interactions with retailers and shoppers.
• Follow Anheuser-Busch equity agreements and supplier contract Code Date policies.
• Fulfill a Driver’s responsibilities when assigned to run a route.
• Complete truck check-in and check-out procedures, handling damaged, short-coded, or out-of-code products.
• Assist with pre- and post-trip truck inspections.
• Clock in/out at the designated time clock.
• Adhere to strict safe working and driving practices, company policies, and federal regulations; correct hazards immediately or report them.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED.
• One (1) year of general work experience preferred; prior grocery store or consumer products experience is a plus.
• Military experience may substitute for some requirements.
• Daily, in-person travel within the service territories of Silver Eagle required.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and assertive skills.
• Ability to perform physically demanding work, including frequent lifting of cases (25-40 lbs) and handling kegs (up to 161 lbs).
• Able to obtain and maintain a Class A CDL and medical card.
• Able to handle alcohol and work within T.A.B.C. guidelines.
• Must have a smartphone with a camera and data capability.
• Must hold a valid U.S. driver’s license for a minimum of 1 year.
• Must have a valid Texas driver’s license and a driving record within MVR policy guidelines.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to talk, hear, and see (including close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus).
• Continuous standing and walking, up to 8 hours at a time.
• Continuous lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling (20-161 lbs).
• Ability to operate a two- or four-wheel dolly and push a 300 lb dolly load.
• Ability to move 161 lb kegs and safely operate a pallet jack.
• Frequent climbing, pushing, pulling, and maneuvering of dollies, hand trucks, bay roll-up doors, straps, curb ramps, truck doors, boxes, cases, kegs, and truck gear shifts.
• Must be able to pass a DOT physical and drug screen.
• Must be able to shift a manual transmission vehicle.

Working Conditions

• All weather conditions (indoor and outdoor), including extreme temperatures, wind, ice, humidity, rain, fog, hail, sleet, and snow.
• Various lighting conditions, including daylight, twilight, evening, and dark.
• Exposure to noise, vibration, dust, dirt, airborne particles, and fumes.
• Work hours vary daily due to business needs.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with access to on-demand pay.
• Full range of benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Paid time off, paid holidays, and paid parental leave.
• Tuition reimbursement program.
• Career development training.
• On-site gym facilities.
• Free beer and beverage gifts throughout the year.

Pre-employment drug test and background screen required.