Local Delivery Driver/Delivery Helper

American Furniture Warehouse • Colorado Springs, CO

4h • $26 - $37

About The Position

American Furniture Warehouse has been delivering smiles for over 40 years.
We are looking for hard working, highly motivated delivery drivers & delivery
helpers to continue our tradition of great prices and amazing service.  AFW drivers will meet new people
everyday giving the best customer experience by delivering, assembling, disassembling, and removing
merchandise from our customers’ homes.
Our drivers provide a white glove service demonstrating how to use merchandise
and explaining our policies and procedures.
This is a demanding and rewarding position!
Make customers happy. Go home.
Partner with multiple departments to continuously improve processes, maximize
efficiency and exceed customer service expectations.
American Furniture Warehouse is a retailer of home furnishings, operating in
Colorado, Arizona, and Texas. With more than 3200 employees, we pride ourselves
on our ability to offer value and service to our customers.  When you join AFW
you become part of a professional, customer service oriented company.
AFW is seeking highly motivated, energetic, hardworking candidates to join our
team.

Requirements

• Delivery drivers must be honest and caring. You are ambassadors of the brand!
• Clean Motor Vehicle Record with 2 or less moving violations with in the past 3 years.
• Obtain and maintain a D.O.T Physical card. (We pay for this)
• Must own your own hand tools. (We help with that, too)
• Work closely with a partner to perform deliveries.
• Must be able to learn, understand, and apply new technologies, including Dispatch Track and iPad.
• Drivers work 5-6 days a week. It is often 6 days during busy seasons. We start early. Get in. Get out.
• Requires the ability to maneuver in confined and at times congested areas, not limited to but including stairways, hallways, and elevators.
• Requires the ability to stand, walk, stoop, & bend for 10 hours or more daily.
• Requires constant use of arms, hands, fingers, eyes, legs, and back.
• Requires lift, lower, push and pull all sizes of merchandise up to 100 lbs. frequently and ability to handle/manipulate up to 250 lbs. frequently.
• The Delivery Driver position requires lifting, gripping, bending, kneeling, stooping and moving merchandise 10 hours or more daily.
• A pre-employment drug screen and pre-employment background check must be passed upon job offer.

Responsibilities

• Assemble/disassemble furniture correctly and efficiently using a variety of tools.
• Efficiently and safely load and unload furniture to and from a delivery truck.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to explain merchandise and policies to customers.
• Ability to team lift merchandise off and on a box truck and in and out of a customer’s home.
• Work safely.
• Work in a physically demanding, fast pace environment for an extended period of time.
• Able to communicate effectively with team members, supervisors, and customers.
• Be able to work independently with little supervision.

Benefits

• 70 hours of sick pay annually
• 40-80 hours of vacation annually
• 2 personal days each year
• Company provided training & leadership development tracks for promotion opportunities.
• Gym facilities in most work locations
• Excellent benefits
• 401k, medical, dental, vision and a host of voluntary programs including life insurance, disability, all at affordable rates.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed