Delivery Driver

Farmers Home Furniture•Oneonta, AL

14d

About The Position

The Delivery Driver performs delivery and warehouse activities, including loading and unloading trucks and driving a delivery truck to deliver merchandise to customers’ homes or businesses. The role also supports store and warehouse operations, vehicle maintenance, customer service, merchandise setup, and other assigned duties. The position is expected to uphold and promote the company’s 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 work may involve heavy physical effort, including climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and handling objects weighing up to 100 pounds regularly and heavier objects occasionally. Essential functions may expose the employee to dirt, dust, temperature extremes, electric currents, or toxic agents or chemicals. Farmers Furniture is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED, six months of experience in a distribution or warehouse environment, or a combination of training, experience, and education that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Possess and maintain a valid state driver’s license.
Have general familiarity with the delivery area.
Meet Department of Transportation requirements, such as Medical Examiner’s Certification and a driver DOT qualification file.
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, when required, calculate decimals and use fractions.
Ability to follow written, oral, or diagrammatic instructions and exercise some independent judgment in semi-routine work.
Ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness, and creativity in repetitive or short-cycle duties carried out according to set procedures.
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 weighing up to 100 pounds and occasionally objects exceeding 100 pounds.
Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate colors or shades, sounds, depth, and visual cues or signals, and to communicate orally.
Ability to perform essential functions that may involve exposure to dirt, dust, temperature extremes, electric currents, or toxic agents or chemicals.

Responsibilities

Drive a truck in an assigned zone or area to deliver products purchased by customers and assist delivery truck drivers by directing trucks into unloading areas.
Load trucks in preparation for daily deliveries; unload merchandise at customer locations and set it up as necessary.
Obtain customer signatures on receipts for pickups or deliveries.
Record deliveries and submit delivery records to appropriate management.
Monitor vehicle maintenance and regular inspections for adherence to safety practices; perform general vehicle maintenance; record fuel and fluid usage and submit it to management.
Unload merchandise from warehouse and freight trucks.
Maintain the cleanliness of store and warehouse interiors and grounds and uphold the company’s Delivery Standards.
Place stock on shelves or racks and set up merchandise and sales promotion displays.
Assemble merchandise as required.
Assist with repossessions of goods.
Perform general maintenance and groundskeeping duties for the warehouse and/or store.
Perform customer service inspections and/or repairs as needed.
Perform collection field calls to delinquent customers at management’s request.
Uphold and promote the company’s H.O.M.E. values.
Assist in other store departments as required.
Perform other related duties as required.