Route Driver

About the role

At First Choice Coffee Services, we’re on a mission to fuel workplaces across the nation with unbeatable customer service and top-quality office coffee solutions. For nearly 50 years, we’ve proudly served businesses throughout the U.S., delivering premium coffee experiences right to their break rooms. We’re currently seeking a Route Driver to join our growing team!

Responsibilities

• Safely and efficiently deliver pre-ordered products and equipment to customers along an assigned route.
• Sell additional products and services to customers when possible.
• Load orders at warehouse for delivery to customers.
• Drive company-owned vans and trucks 30 to 100 miles daily to transport products and equipment to customers.
• Accurately deliver orders to customer sites and place products and equipment in designated areas.
• Build rapport and maintain relationships with contacts and decision-makers at customer sites.
• Respond to inquiries from customers about available products and services.
• Reconcile products remaining on delivery vehicle at end of workday against products loaded onto vehicle for delivery at beginning of workday to identify any losses.
• Maintain a professional and courteous manner in all interactions with customers and members of the public.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Valid Class 5 driver’s license with a clean driver’s abstract.
• Minimum one (1) to two (2) years of experience in warehouse logistics, or delivery operations preferred.
• Experience operating forklifts and other warehouse equipment is an asset.
• Strong organizational skills with attention to accuracy and detail.
• Usual and customary methods of performing job functions require significant lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling; some climbing and balancing; significant stooping, kneeling, crouching, and/or crawling.
• Must be able to safely operate company-owned vans and trucks.
• Occasional lifting of equipment weighing up to one hundred and twenty-five (125) pounds, with assistance.
• Climb in and out of delivery vehicle multiple times per day.
• Load and unload a thirty (30) to thirty-five (35) pound hand cart from delivery vehicle at approximately 16-20 customer sites per day.
• Use hand cart to move products and equipment from delivery vehicle into customer facility.
• Approximately twenty (20%) percent sitting and/or driving, sixty (60%) percent walking, and twenty (20%) percent standing daily.
• Able to work outdoors in various types of weather.
• Frequent local travel is required to delivery products to customers.