Delivery Assistant

Farmers Home Furniture•Orangeburg, SC

About The Position

The Delivery Assistant supports delivery and warehouse activities by loading and unloading trucks and helping deliver merchandise to customers’ homes or businesses. The role also includes stocking and displaying merchandise, maintaining warehouse or store spaces, assisting drivers, documenting deliveries, obtaining customer signatures, assembling merchandise, and performing customer service inspections and repairs as needed. The employee is expected to uphold the company’s Delivery Standards and H.O.M.E. values: Helping others, developing Ordinary people to do extraordinary things, being a Motivated owner that cares, and Ensuring that excellence is a habit personally and for those entrusted to them to lead. The position may also assist other store departments and perform related duties.

Requirements

Jr. High School Diploma, six months of experience in distribution or a warehouse environment, shipping/receiving, or merchandise delivery; or a combination of training, experience, and education that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Ability to assemble, process, and tabulate data according to a prescribed plan.
Ability to provide guidance, assistance, and/or interpretation regarding procedures and standards.
Ability to operate equipment, machinery, tools, and/or materials requiring complex and rapid adjustments.
Ability to use a wide variety of reference and descriptive data and information.
Ability to perform basic arithmetic and, as needed, calculate decimals and use fractions.
Ability to carry out written, oral, or diagrammatic instructions and exercise some independent judgment in semi-routine standardized work.
Ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness, and creativity in situations involving repetitive or short-cycle operations.
Ability to exert heavy physical effort, including climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling objects.
Ability to handle moderately heavy objects up to 100 pounds and occasionally heavier objects in excess of 100 pounds.
Some tasks require perceiving and distinguishing colors or shades, sounds, depth, and visual cues or signals, and communicating orally.

Responsibilities

Place stock on shelves or racks and set up merchandise and sales promotion displays.
Perform general maintenance and groundskeeping for the warehouse and/or store.
Unload merchandise from warehouse and freight trucks.
Assist delivery truck drivers by directing trucks into unloading areas to support safe vehicle operations.
Record deliveries on delivery records and submit them to appropriate management.
Load trucks in preparation for daily deliveries and assist with delivery, unloading, and setup.
Obtain customer signatures on receipts for pickups or deliveries.
Assist with repossessions of goods.
Assemble merchandise as required.
Perform customer service inspections and repairs as needed.
Maintain the cleanliness of store or warehouse interiors and grounds and uphold the company’s Delivery Standards.
Uphold and promote the company’s H.O.M.E. values.
Assist in other store departments as required and perform other related duties.