About the Role
This role involves driving for delivery and pick-up, reporting, operations, service, safety, and maintenance. The Truck Driver will also perform warehouse duties including material receiving, order processing, ERP system use, product packaging, and efficient loading/unloading, while maintaining inventory records. This is a Safety Sensitive Position with a variable schedule.
Responsibilities
- Assist in loading cargo as necessary.
- Conduct pre-trip inspections and complete paperwork.
- Inspect freight, paperwork, and vehicle for compliance with regulations.
- Check fuel and oil levels before leaving.
- Ensure cargo is well secured and not damaged.
- Deliver cargo in the most efficient and safest manner possible.
- Ensure accuracy of invoice and order before unloading.
- Unload and/or assist in unloading cargo at customer locations.
- Assist in loading cargo from customers as necessary.
- Collect COD payments as required.
- Report any discrepancies in vehicle, cargo, or paperwork to supervisor prior to leaving.
- Complete all DOT regulated paperwork as required.
- Report any customer complaints or refusals to supervisor.
- Return all required daily documentation, including signed delivery receipts, pick up slips, driver’s logs, and pre-trip inspection sheets.
- Greet customers promptly and courteously.
- Assist customers with unloading and loading cargo as necessary.
- Actively work to increase personal skills and product knowledge.
- Maintain a neat appearance.
- Operate the vehicle safely.
- Obey all traffic laws, including proper use of Electronic Log Device [ELD].
- Follow FMCSA Clearinghouse Regulations.
- Allow no riders except those approved by supervisor.
- Unload incoming trucks and move products to proper staging areas using a forklift, pallet jack, or crane.
- Receive incoming materials and compare information on packing slip with purchase orders, invoices, or other documents to verify accuracy of shipment.
- Prepare orders for shipment by retrieving inventory and packaging appropriately for damage-free delivery.
- Maintain a neat and clean work area by sweeping floors, disposing of cardboard, banding, or packing materials, and removing debris.
- Perform related duties as requested to meet department and/or business objectives.
- Use equipment to accurately measure materials, color code, catalog, log inventory, and put product away after training.
- Operate industrial cutting equipment to cut materials as requested and perform miscellaneous duties as assigned with training.
- Operate a non-CDL F450 truck for delivery to meet production needs after training.
Requirements
- Valid NY State CDL A or B driver’s license.
- Obtain and maintain a valid DOT Medical Certification.
- Valid Real ID or eligible identification proof may be mandatory based on customer requirements for specific delivery territories.
- Registration on FMCSA Clearinghouse and knowledge of State/Federal transport regulations.
- High School Diploma or High School Equivalent strongly preferred.
- Competent driving skills with one year of driving experience preferred.
- Knowledge of vehicles and all their parts.
- Mathematical ability to sort, check, count, measure, and verify numbers and/or product shipped or received.
- Demonstrated computer skills in the use of the company ERP System as required.
- Ability to operate material handling equipment after training.
- Ability to read and write English.
- Good communication skills.
- Ability to prepare routine administrative paperwork and perform math calculations.
- Ability to operate industrial fork trucks/lifts, overhead crane, back saw, and computer to send/receive email messages, post information to a database, and perform basic email and/or data entry in ERP System.
- Ability to accurately read calipers and measuring instruments to determine inventory amounts and customer requirements.
- Ability to operate machinery (saw and/or lathe) with training.
- Wear appropriate personal protective equipment including safety shoes, gloves, and safety glasses when performing certain job duties.
- Moderate mental and visual attention required for performing manual work, machine operations, setups, inspections, and adjustments that require frequent decisions to detect and adjust for variance from proper operation.
- May be required to operate equipment in congested areas involving considerable variety of movement.
- Ability with or without reasonable accommodation to perform physical requirements of the job which include but are not limited to walking, climbing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, bending, talking, hearing, and performing repetitive motion of hands and/or wrists to finger, grasp, handle, feel, push, pull, reach.
- Visual acuity to perform inspection of materials, reading of caliper and other measuring devices and operating motorized material handling equipment.
- Ability to exert more than 20 pounds of force constantly, and/or more than 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or 100 pounds of force occasionally to move objects.
- Work involves minimal exposure to unusual elements, such as temperature changes, outdoor exposure to weather conditions, fumes, odors, gases, mists, and/or smoke, oils and/or lubricating fluids.
- Work environment involves exposure to physical risks, such as operating dangerous equipment and proximity to moving mechanical parts.
Skills
- Driving skills
- Mathematical ability
- Computer skills (ERP System, email, database entry)
- Material handling equipment operation
- Reading and writing English
- Communication skills
- Administrative paperwork preparation
- Industrial fork truck/lift operation
- Overhead crane operation
- Back saw operation
- Calipers and measuring instruments reading
- Machinery operation (saw and/or lathe)
Location
- New York State
- On-site
Work Type
- Full-time
- On-site
- Monday through Friday 6:30am-3:00pm, with variable schedule based on route
Experience Level
- One year of driving experience preferred
Education Level
- High School Diploma or High School Equivalent strongly preferred
- Valid NY State CDL A or B driver’s license required
- Valid DOT Medical Certification
Salary/Compensations
- $19.00/hour up to $27.50/hour, plus discretionary incentive
