Delivery Driver

Farmers Home Furniture•Swainsboro, GA

21d

About The Position

The Delivery Driver performs delivery and warehouse activities, including loading and unloading trucks and driving a delivery truck to bring merchandise to customers’ homes or businesses. The role also supports store and warehouse operations, customer service, vehicle upkeep, merchandise setup, and related duties. The employee 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 position requires a high school diploma or GED and six months of experience in a distribution or warehouse environment, or an equivalent combination of training, experience, and education. A valid state driver’s license, familiarity with the delivery area, and the ability to meet Department of Transportation requirements are also required. The work can involve heavy physical effort, including lifting and handling heavy objects, and may expose the employee to adverse environmental conditions.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED, or an equivalent combination of training, experience, and education that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Six months of experience in a distribution or warehouse environment, unless the required qualifications are met through an equivalent combination of training, experience, and education.
Valid state driver’s license, maintained as required.
General familiarity with the delivery area.
Ability to meet Department of Transportation requirements, such as Medical Examiner Certification and a driver DOT qualification file.
Ability to assemble, process, and tabulate data according to a prescribed plan.
Ability to provide guidance, assistance, or interpretation regarding procedures and standards.
Ability to operate equipment, machinery, tools, or materials requiring complex and rapid adjustments.
Ability to use a wide variety of reference and descriptive 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 standardized work.
Ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness, and creativity in situations involving repetitive or short-cycle operations performed 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 objects weighing up to 100 pounds regularly and, occasionally, objects weighing more than 100 pounds.
Ability to perceive and discriminate colors or shades, sounds, depth, and visual cues or signals; some tasks require oral communication.
Ability to work in conditions that may involve dirt, dust, temperature extremes, electric currents, or toxic agents or chemicals.

Responsibilities

Drive a truck in an assigned zone to deliver customer purchases and assist with safely directing delivery trucks into unloading areas.
Load trucks for daily deliveries; unload merchandise at customer locations and set it up as necessary.
Obtain customer signatures for pickups or deliveries.
Record deliveries and submit delivery records to appropriate management.
Monitor vehicle maintenance and inspections for safety compliance; perform general vehicle maintenance and record fuel and fluid usage for management.
Unload merchandise from warehouse and freight trucks.
Maintain cleanliness of the store or warehouse interior 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 for the warehouse and/or store.
Perform customer service inspections and/or repairs as needed.
Make 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.