Pick-Up / Delivery Driver - Valdosta
Second Harvest of South Georgia, Inc.Local Route Driver JOB DESCRIPTION Status: Full-time Minimum Qualifications: Vehicle Appropriate license in good standing. Traditional and professional hygiene & appearance in uniform, negative pre-employment drug screen, reliable transportation to work; and current Georgia State Motor Vehicle Report (MVR), criminal record free of violent and/or drug-related convictions. HS Diploma or equivalent. Salary Range: Based on License Type and experience. Supervision: Branch Director or Lead supervises this position. Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:30 am until pick-ups are complete, in accordance with safe and efficient SHSG guidelines. Food rescue and delivery schedules require driver’s willingness and ability to work some deliveries/pick-ups on Saturdays, certain holidays, or days immediately before or after holidays. This is due to the need to rescue and safely secure vital food sources for our twenty-six county’s community. Benefits: At the sixty-day mark of employment, SHSG offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package, to include medical with onsite physician available for enrolled employees, and available ancillary coverages including dental, vision, life and more. Additionally at sixty days, SHSG currently offers fourteen paid and scheduled, holidays, an initial sixteen hours of PTO and the forty hours PTO upon work anniversary of one year. Premium Wages for worked holidays. Goal: Maintain a safe and FMCSA / DOT Compliant vehicle while operating LFR Route. Job duties include (but are not limited to): Load, unload, prepare, and operated, delivery vehicle. Properly secure items to prevent damage during transportation. Properly load / unload to prevent damage during loading and unloading. Verify contents against shipping papers. Inform manager(s) of discrepancies. Meet standards and improve best practices. Follow routes and time schedules. Ask for feedback on provided services and resolve clients’ complaints. Act as a link between donors, agencies receiving deliveries and the food bank. Provide high, standard of customer service, referring any agency complaints or comments to the proper food bank staff as needed. Inform Customers about new products and services. Answer customer questions. Collect Signatures and Payments. Exercise good judgment and communication skills. Demonstrate stamina, good attitude, and the ability to lift heavy boxes. Lift, Carry, and Walk as necessary. Transport donations requiring the truck to the food bank from donors by packing the product safely so as to protect the integrity and quality of the product. Maintain proper shipping practices on the food bank truck for all products transported by our truck including compliance with DOT, AIB, SHSG, and local health standards (temperatures and logs). Maintain logs when using the truck and be responsible for fueling the truck as needed; before, during, and after use. Submit fuel receipts to finance or bookkeeper. Use the most efficient route available. Maintain the food bank truck. Submit vehicle to FMA Vendor as required for standard preventive maintenance checks. Vehicle will be sanitized before COB daily. Keep the vehicle clean and in good condition. Protect product from theft by securing vehicle properly, checking all items in and notifying direct Chain of Command, should product appear to be missing or if employee knows someone has taken the product. Alert other drivers of the food bank truck to practices necessary to properly and safely maintain the truck. Assist with food drives and duties as assigned including extra donation pick-ups or warehousing as determined by the Branch Director, Inventory Manager, Food Drive Coordinator and COO. Report inconsistencies to Branch Director to be mitigated in cooperation with COO. Attend all required meetings, training, and individual and supervisory sessions as assigned Perform all other job tasks as requested by the Branch Director or COO. All employees assume the role of company agent or …