Delivery Driver Trainee - Company Paid CDL

SUMMARY
The primary responsibility of this role is to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to become a safe, professional, and effective CDL-A delivery driver. This position is designed for individuals completing CDL training and gaining hands-on experience with delivery operations, customer service, route execution, and merchandising standards. The individual will be expected to learn and perform all aspects of the delivery process, operate company equipment safely, and represent the company in a professional and customer-focused manner.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop the skills and knowledge necessary to become a safe, professional, and effective CDL-A delivery driver Is familiar with and certified to use all types of delivery equipment, including pallet jacks, docks and dock-levelers, trucks and trailers per company and OSHA standards.
• Learn how to professionally deliver stops in all areas and departments to ensure flexibility.
• Learn how to prepare invoices, collect payments from customers and record transactions on customer receipt.
• Listen to and resolve service complaints.
• Represent the company in a professional manner and provide excellent customer service.
• Maintain a friendly, working relationship with the Manager on each account on all routes in assigned area
• Confer with Delivery Supervisors to resolve customer problems, opportunities, competitive activity in your market, and potential overage situations
• Check in product with Store Manager, following store policy.
• Restock cold boxes, displays, shelves and other areas where products are available for sale.
• Responsible for keeping back stock, cold box and displays rotated and in a clean and organized manner
• Adhere to company account and merchandising standards in all accounts.
• Responsible for adhering to Overage Beer Policy
• Maintain safe driving record and comply with company driving policy.
• Attending all scheduled meetings and company functions as required.
• Adhere to dress code, including safety non-negotiables,” and be properly groomed.
• Obey all federal, state, and local laws.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION
Duties require the ability to read, write and understand simple instructions. Requires an understanding of basic math, accuracy in checking, sorting, counting, and other routine procedures. A high school education is not required but would provide the basic skills necessary to learn the job.
Degree: 1, Points: 15

EXPERIENCE
Up to and Including 3 Months
Degree: 1, Points: 20

MENTAL/VISUAL/AUDITORY DEMAND
Frequent mental and visual attention where the flow of work is intermittent or the operation involves waiting for a machine or process to complete a cycle, with intermittent checking involved.
Degree: 2, Points: 10

WORKING CONDITIONS
Undesirable working conditions. Exposed to noise, dust, heat, oils, fumes, and other elements with one continuously present to the extent of being disagreeable, or with several elements present to the extent of being disagreeable but usually not more than one at a time.
Degree: 4, Points: 20

INITIATIVE AND INGENUITY
Requires the use of some judgement to use required job knowledge to comply with instructions and standard procedures, methods, or practices involving the making of minor decisions.
Degree: 2, Points: 28

PHYSICAL DEMAND
Considerable physical effort consisting of*

• Continuously lifting or moving average-weight material, or
• Continuously lifting or moving light-weight material in difficult work positions, or
• Frequently lifting or moving heavy-weight material, or
• Frequently lifting or moving average-weight material in difficult work positions, or
• Occasionally lifting or moving heavy-weight material in difficult work positions or in each case expending equivalent effort pulling, pushing, carrying, or shoveling.

Degree: 4, Points: 40

RESPONSIBILITY FOR EQUIPMENT
Moderate – sets up and makes adjustments which could result in damages to specific parts or sections of equipment.
Degree: 3, Points; 15

RESONSIBILITY FOR MATERIAL OR PRODUCT
Works with materials/product where errors would usually be detected and could be re-worked without major loss of materials.
Degree: 2, Points: 10

RESPONSIBILITY FOR SAFETY OF OTHERS
Safety of others depends entirely on correct action of employee on job being rated; accidents, should they occur, may result in total disability or death.
Degree: 5, Points: 25

TOTAL POINTS: 183 GRADE: 2

HAZARDS
Injuries, should they occur, may result in loss of time, due to crushed hand or foot, loss of fingers or toes, eye injuries, chemical burns, etc.

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Requires the ability to read, write, complete simple forms and understand simple written instructions.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
Requires the ability to perform arithmetic skills such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division including decimals and fractions.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The job entails considerable physical effort consisting of:

• Continuously lifting or moving average-weight material, or
• Continuously lifting or moving light-weighted material in difficult work positions, or
• Frequently moving or lifting heavy-weight material, or
• Frequently lifting or moving average-weight material in difficult work positions, or
• Occasionally lifting or moving heavy-weight material in difficult work positions, or
• In each case expending equivalent effort pulling, pushing, or carrying.

A job description, by its nature, cannot include every aspect of the job. Because of this, any function that would reasonably fall under the responsibility of the Delivery Trainee is assumed and it is expected that the Delivery Trainee will act accordingly. The Delivery Trainee will be expected to perform any other task not included in this job description requested by management.

Minimum Qualifications
A candidate who does not meet the following minimum qualification will not be considered for this position.

• A high school education is not required but would provide the basic skills necessary to learn the job.
• Up to and Including 3 Months
• Internal candidates must have a recommendation from their manager or department head.