Job Description
General Labor - Part-time
Delivery Driver & Warehouse Worker
Reports to: Store Manager Department: Retail
Location: Kentwood FLSA: Non-exempt
Shift: Part Time Pay Grade: R-1
Primary Responsibilities:
- Drive truck or other vehicle over established routes or within an established territory and sell or deliver products, or pick up or deliver items.
- Obey traffic laws and follow established traffic and transportation procedures.
- Read maps and follow written or verbal geographic directions.
- Verify the contents of inventory loads against shipping papers.
- Load and unload trucks, vans, or automobiles – frequently lifting multiple packages up to 50lbs and navigating stairwells while handling packages.
- Maintain records, such as vehicle logs, records of cargo, or billing statements.
- Present bills and receipts and collect payments for products delivered or loaded.
- Inspect and maintain vehicle supplies and equipment, such as gas, oil, water, tires, lights, or brakes, to ensure that vehicles are in proper working condition.
- Report any mechanical problems encountered with vehicles.
- Prepare incoming and outgoing mail for distribution.
- Use hand or mail handling machines to time stamp, open, read, sort, and route incoming mail; and address, seal, stamp, fold, stuff, and affix postage to outgoing mail or packages.
- Wrap packages or bundles by hand.
- Affix postage to packages or letters by hand, or stamp materials, using postage meters.
- Break down boxes and packing material for re-use or recycling to maintain a clean warehouse.
- Develop constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, maintaining them over time.
Other tasks not on this list may be assigned.
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each duty listed above satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Sales and Marketing – Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products.
- English Language – Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the ability to understand and communicate information in both oral and written formats.
- Adaptability/Flexibility – Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
- Transportation — Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.
- Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment — Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment.
- Tools & Technology – Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications and an ability to navigate e-mail, Point of Sale, Internet, database and inventory management software.
- Sociability – Ability to provide outstanding service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment.