Delivery Driver

Farmers Home Furniture•Marion, NC

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 warehouse and store operations, customer service, merchandise setup, vehicle upkeep, and general maintenance. The employee is expected to uphold the company’s Delivery Standards and promote its H.O.M.E. values: Helping others, developing Ordinary people to do extraordinary things, being a Motivated owner that cares, and Ensuring excellence is a habit. The position requires heavy physical effort, including frequent climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling; lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling materials weighing up to 100 pounds; and occasional handling of heavier objects. Work may involve exposure to dirt, dust, temperature extremes, electric currents, or toxic agents or chemicals. Farmers Furniture is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides 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 providing 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, including examples 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, 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 or descriptive data and information.
Ability to perform basic arithmetic and, where 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 repetitive or short-cycle operations 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 weighing up to 100 pounds, with occasional handling of heavier objects.
Ability to perceive colors or shades, sounds, depth, and visual cues or signals, and to communicate orally.
Ability to perform duties 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 customer purchases and assist delivery truck drivers in safely directing trucks into unloading areas.
Load trucks 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 inspections for compliance with safety practices; perform general vehicle maintenance; record fuel and fluid usage and submit records to management.
Unload merchandise from warehouse and freight trucks.
Maintain the cleanliness of store or warehouse interiors and grounds and uphold company 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 or store.
Perform customer service inspections and 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 other store departments as required.
Perform other related duties as required.