About the Role
The Delivery Driver position is responsible for delivering palletized orders to EOP’s customer service base in a timely and attentive manner.
Responsibilities
- Conduct thorough pre-trip safety checks
- Maintain accurate trip logs and related reports
- Secure loads to ensure product integrity upon delivery
- Efficiently navigate assigned delivery routes
- Unload and appropriately handle pallets and packages per customers’ specific needs
- Provide excellent customer service at every opportunity
- Inform supervisor of route delays and outstanding delivery situations
- Obtain necessary delivery receipts
- Organize and secure all route-related paperwork
- Participate in efficient route planning
- Pick-up dispatched backhauls in a timely manner
- Ensure work is performed safely at all times
- Wear proper safety equipment at all times
- Punctuality and regular and reliable attendance
- Perform other duties as directed, developed, or assigned
Requirements
- Valid California Class A driver's license and clean driving record
- Two to three years of delivery driving experience, preferably with a fresh produce company
- Familiarity with Bay Area traffic patterns
- Excellent Communication skills, including reading, writing, and verbally communicating effectively and professionally with other business departments, customers, and vendors
- Ability to diplomatically deal with difficult situations and people while exhibiting a consistent level of professionalism
- Strong ability to maintain road and equipment safety
- Ability to think independently to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of different situations without set guidelines
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, report, or schedule form
- Operate equipment such as, but not limited to, a forklift, stand-up pallet jack, electric pallet jack, computer, calculator, copier, and phone
- Must be able to work variable hours, days, weekends, & Holidays
- Able to work with little or no supervision
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize in a time-pressured environment
- Excellent organizational skills
- High accuracy in work with attention to detail
- Ability to complete projects in a timely manner
- Ability to get along and work cooperatively with others
- Positive and professional attitude
- Ability to respond positively to constructive feedback
- Ability to manage a project from its initiation to completion with minimal supervision
- Solution-oriented attitude with a willingness to proactively solve issues
- Ability to read directions and use a street map to plot delivery routes
- Ability to maintain logs and records
- Excellent customer service skills
- Ability to present oneself professionally in customer-facing situations
- Stand and walk or sit alternatively, depending on the specific needs of the day. An estimated 40% of the time is spent on feet and 60% sitting while driving.
- Constant requirement to perform bending/stooping/squatting, climbing stairs, pushing, pulling, twisting, lifting, and reaching above shoulders.
- Frequently perform standing and walking activities.
- Lifting/carrying a minimum of 50 lbs on a regular basis and over 50 lbs occasionally.
- Vision requirements: consistent need to complete forms. Frequent need to see small details. Frequent need to see things clearly beyond arm's reach.
- Hearing requirements: consistent need to communicate over the telephone and in person.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Customer service skills
- Organizational skills
- Forklift operation
- Pallet jack operation
- Computer operation
- Calculator operation
- Copier operation
- Phone operation
- Problem-solving
- Time management
- Attention to detail
- Professionalism
Location
- Bay Area
Work Type
- Variable hours
- Days
- Weekends
- Holidays
Experience Level
- Two to three years of delivery driving experience
Education Level
- Valid California Class A driver's license
About the Company
- The work environment's noise level is generally moderate but may be high during certain times of the day due to the business level.
- This position is exposed to temperatures ranging from 34 to over 70 degrees and humidity levels varying from 80 to 95%.
