Delivery Assistant

Farmers Home Furniture•New Tazewell, TN

just now•Onsite

About The Position

The Delivery Assistant is responsible for assisting with delivery and warehouse activities. This includes loading and unloading trucks and helping with the delivery of merchandise to customer's homes or businesses. The role also involves placing stock on shelves or racks, setting up merchandise and sales promotion displays, and performing general maintenance and grounds keeping duties for the warehouse and/or store. The assistant will unload merchandise from warehouse and freight trucks, ensure safe operations of vehicles by assisting delivery truck drivers, record deliveries, load trucks for daily deliveries, assist with delivery, unloading and set-up, and obtain customer signatures on receipts. Additional duties include assisting with repossessions of goods, assembling merchandise, performing customer service inspections and repairs, and maintaining cleanliness of the store/warehouse interior and grounds. The position requires upholding and promoting the company’s H.O.M.E. values.

Requirements

Jr. High School Diploma
Six months experience in distribution or warehouse environment, shipping/receiving or delivering merchandise
Any combination of training, experience and education which provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities for this position.
Ability to assemble, process and tabulate data according to a prescribed plan (Data Utilization).
Ability to provide guidance, assistance, and/or interpretation to others regarding the application of procedures and standards to specific situations (Human Interaction).
Ability to operate equipment, machinery, tools, and/or materials requiring complex and rapid adjustments (Equipment, Machinery, tools, and Materials Utilization).
Ability to utilize a wide variety of reference and/or descriptive data and information (Verbal Aptitude).
Ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; may require the ability to calculate decimals and utilize principles of fractions (Mathematical Aptitude).
Ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagrammatic form, involving semi-routine standardized work with some latitude for independent judgment concerning choices of action (Functional Reasoning).
Ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in dealing with situations involving repetitive or short cycle operations or duties carried out according to set procedures (Situational Reasoning).

Responsibilities

Places stock on shelves or racks and sets up merchandise and sales promotion displays.
Performs general maintenance and grounds keeping duties for warehouse and/or store.
Unloads merchandise from warehouse and freight trucks.
Ensures safe operations of vehicles by assisting delivery truck drivers with directing trucks into unloading areas.
Records deliveries on delivery record and submits to appropriate management.
Loads truck in preparation for daily deliveries; assists with delivery, unloading and set-up.
Obtains customer signature on receipt for pickup or delivery.
Assists with repossessions of goods.
Assembles merchandise as required.
Performs customer service inspections and repairs as needed.
Maintains cleanliness of store/warehouse interior and grounds and upholds the company’s Delivery Standards.
Upholds and promotes our 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.
Assists in other store departments as required.
Performs other related duties as required.