Delivery Assistant Jobs

This position is responsible for assisting the Driver Specialist in every aspect of product delivery to customer stores in an efficient and safe manner by following all company procedures.
Pay Rate: $21.00 per hour.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS / PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Other duties may be assigned. A teammate in this position must have the ability to:

• Provide professional and accurate completion of load evaluation paperwork to provide constructive feedback to warehouse teammates.
• Properly use double-count techniques to ensure accurate delivery of product.
• Write reports and complete time sheets.
• Read, analyze, and interpret general invoices, delivery sheets, and technical procedures.
• Unload products at customer stores and place in appropriate storage facility (i.e.: freezer, cooler or dry storage area).
• Properly use accessory equipment such as ramps, load-locks, straps, and parking hand trucks to ensure safety and minimal maintenance costs.
• Properly use customer service best practices to ensure consistent quality service to our customers.
• Accurately complete wage sheets according to company procedure to ensure timely processing of payroll data.
• Properly use unloading techniques to ensure safety of self and others and to eliminate damage to product.
• Accurately complete delivery documentation according to company procedure to ensure timely processing of credits, shorts, etc.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:
A teammate in this position must:

• Be able to interpret an extensive variety of instructions with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Be able to use dolly or hand truck in heavy lifting and shifting loads on wet, dry, icy, bumpy, or uneven terrain with frequent curbs and obstructions.
• Be able to stand, walk, sit, climb, balance, stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, crawl, or twist.
• Be able to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Have strong communication skills with ability to communicate with management team, drivers, helpers, and customers.
• Assist with dispatch preparation and route return process.
• Be able to read maps, labels, invoices, and manifests.
• Be a High School Graduate. Warehouse experience is helpful but not required.
• Be able to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers and customers.
• Be able to work nights, weekends, holidays, including overnight routes when necessary.
• Be able to load and unload product routinely at multiple customer sites daily.
• Have mathematical ability, specific to adding, subtracting, and verifying quantities of product.
• Be able to lift at least 60 pounds and handle a hand truck weighing up to 400 pounds when fully loaded.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• The environment includes the tractor trailer.
• The environment includes customer facilities.
• The environment encompasses all areas of a Distribution Center, Transportation Department, or Transportation Shop.

Candidates may be subject to a background check and drug screen, in accordance with applicable laws.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.