Yard Driver

About the role

Join Bimbo Bakeries USA, the largest baking company in the world, with a family of 20,000 associates nationwide. As a Yard Driver, you will play a key role in ensuring our consumers have the freshest products at every meal.

Responsibilities

• Communicate with Jockeys and Shippers on other shifts to discuss trailer locations and manifests.
• Load, unload, and move trailers as needed, including hooking and unhooking tractors from trailers safely, and movement through the lot and on town streets.
• Fuel the yard tractor as needed.
• Check accounts for load information to be moved.
• Communicate with transport drivers to maintain safe traffic flow in the lot.
• Be flexible to emergency and/or special assignments.
• Push/pull product trays stacked 15 high on dollies.
• Work in adverse weather while wearing appropriate clothing and safety gear.
• Maintain storage trailer inventory list (includes baskets, ingredients, and machine parts on storage trailers).
• Communicate with Fleet Garage on any equipment issues with yard tractor and all trailers in the lot.
• Comply with all company policies and work safely to ensure the safety of yourself and others.
• Maintain cleanliness of work area.
• Help wheel product and perform double bagging of product during slack time of trailer movement.
• Able to cover shifts for Inter-plant Shippers as needed.

Requirements

• Must be at least 21 years of age or older.
• At least one (1) year driving experience.
• Must have a valid driver’s license with a safe driving record.
• High School Diploma or GED is preferred.
• Must be available to work weekends and holidays.
• Must be available to work any shift.
• Must be able to climb, push/pull, bend, stoop, and kneel for extended periods, as well as perform frequent reaching and use of fingers.
• All final candidates must submit to and pass a pre-employment DOT drug screen and DOT physical.
• Successfully able to obtain Chauffeur License (if job location is in IN, MI, TN).
• Must pass a road test.
• No over-the-road driving.
• Ability to read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with the general public, understand highway traffic signs and signals, respond to official inquiries, and make entries on reports and records.

Pay

Great starting pay of $27.47 per hour.

Schedule

2nd Shift: 2pm - 10:30pm, Tuesday - Saturday.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage.
• Retirement Plan.