Truck Helper
About The Position
The Truck Helper rides on a Salvation Army truck to collect donations, helping load, secure, and unload items and navigate the driver. The role also supports warehouse and thrift-store operations, including sorting, pricing, preparing, and displaying donated goods, maintaining clean and orderly work areas, and delivering appliances and furniture to customers. The helper may assume truck-driver responsibilities as needed. Work is performed in a vehicle, warehouse, stockroom, or store, with daily outdoor exposure and frequent lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling of heavy items. The position is scheduled for 29 hours per week, Monday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., on a rotating schedule. The hourly salary range is $13.00.
Requirements
- Valid state driver's license.
- Six months' experience lifting and hauling heavy items such as appliances and furniture, or an equivalent combination of training and experience.
- Ability to frequently lift, carry, push, or pull heavy materials, supplies, and equipment weighing 50–100+ pounds.
- Ability to perform duties involving frequent standing, walking, climbing, bending, reaching, and transporting merchandise.
- No formal education required.
Responsibilities
- Ride along on scheduled donation pickup routes and help navigate the driver using maps or directions.
- Inspect donated items briefly and explain donation acceptance policies to customers.
- Lift, carry, haul, and arrange donations in the truck to use space efficiently, protect items, and maintain safety.
- Prepare accurate and complete donation receipts and maintain positive relationships with donors.
- Unload donations at the warehouse and distribute them to appropriate locations.
- Load items for disposal and deliver purchased appliances and furniture to customers.
- Perform routine truck maintenance, check fluid levels, and coordinate or participate in repairs as needed.
- Receive, inspect, sort, price, tag, and prepare donated items for store display or storage; discard unsuitable items according to procedures.
- Hang clothing, pack and mark boxes, transport goods, and prepare unsuitable clothing for the bailer.
- Clean donated furniture and appliances before pricing and display.
- Maintain neat and orderly warehouse, loading dock, store, and storage areas.
- Clean and sanitize bathrooms; sweep, vacuum, mop, wax floors, sweep sidewalks, clean windows, and dust and polish furniture and fixtures.
- Empty trash, collect trash from grounds, and remove unsaleable items to the outside trash area or dumpster.
- Monitor light fixtures and replace bulbs as necessary.
- Assume truck-driver responsibilities as needed and perform other related work as required.
Benefits
- Paid Time Off
- Voluntary Life Insurance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
