Driver

Description

Job Title: Driver/Warehouse worker

Location: Alexandria, VA

Department: Operations

Reports To: Warehouse Manager

FLSA Status: Full-time or Part-Time and Non-exempt

Job purpose

Drivers are responsible for delivering products to clients in a professional and timely manner, working and ensuring that vehicles are always ready for use.

When not making deliveries, a driver will receive and dispatch merchandise to and from our warehouse. Drivers will load and unload outgoing and incoming delivery vehicles. You will select products from the warehouse, load and secure goods to pallets, move inventory to delivery area, and load merchandise. You will unload stock from delivery vehicles to customer locations, as well as to transport to and store in designated warehouse positions. You will keep your work environment clean and tidy at all times, and comply with all relevant safety rules, regulations, policies and procedures.

Duties and responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Operating 18ft to 26ft box trucks with lift-gate. (CDL not needed)
• Making on-time deliveries; an average of 15 deliveries per day.
• Loading/Unloading shipments.
• Stocking/Restocking inventory.
• Utilizing navigation apps to find the most optimal route.
• Interacting with clients in a professional conduct.
• Ensuring that vehicles have sufficient gas and are always ready for use.
• Arranging for vehicle repairs when necessary.
• Updating monthly mileage records.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Skills and Qualifications

• A valid driver's license with a good driving record.
• 1 year driving experience preferred.
• Must pass DOT Physical. Company will pay for the certification.
• Extensive knowledge of the operating area.
• Physical strength and ability to lift and move 50lbs.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills.
• Good verbal communication.
• Proficiency using GPS devices.
• Knowledge of the English language is required.
• Candidate is subject to complete background check and drug screen.

Working conditions

• The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.

Physical requirements

• Heavy work: Exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized. This factor is important if the amount and kind of climbing required exceeds that required for ordinary locomotion.
• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery or erratically moving surfaces. This factor is important if the amount and kind of balancing the amount and kind of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
• Standing: Remaining upright on the feet, particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires full use of the lower extremities and back muscles.
• Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• The worker is required to have visual acuity to operate motor vehicles or heavy equipment.
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects

Direct reports

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