Delivery Driver

Forshaw Inc; Norwood (MA); On-site; USD 38,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Forshaw Inc. is seeking a Delivery Driver to load, deliver, and unload products, while maintaining accurate documentation and fostering positive customer relations.

The role includes operating warehouse equipment, adhering to safety rules, and ensuring timely deliveries on scheduled routes. Candidates should have at least 2 years of driving experience, a valid license with a clean record, and the ability to obtain a DOT medical card as needed.

Qualifications

• Load, deliver, and unload product orders safely to customers.
• Maintain load manifests and all other vehicle documents, ensuring they are properly completed and balanced with truck counts and shipping documents before and after deliveries.
• Ensure all safety rules are strictly observed.
• Establish and maintain good customer relations by communicating in person with customers, providing information on ordering and delivery times.
• Pick, pack, and ship orders and products.
• Operate a forklift, pallet jack, and other warehouse equipment.
• Comply with all DOT and OSHA regulations.
• Maintain appropriate driver's license and endorsements.

Responsibilities

• Load and deliver orders to customers on scheduled routes.
• Maintain accurate load manifests and vehicle documents.
• Uphold safety rules at all times during deliveries and warehouse tasks.
• Communicate with customers to provide delivery times and order information.
• Operate forklift or pallet jack as needed during loading and unloading.
• Adhere to DOT and OSHA regulations and keep licenses current.

Skills

2 years driving experience

Customer communication

Safe driving practices

Route delivery planning

Tools

Forklift

Pallet jack

Job description

Description

The Delivery Driver will deliver products to businesses on a scheduled route or intermittently, serve customers by meeting customer needs and resolving customer problems, and work at the branch warehouse, which includes but is not limited to maintaining the dock, loading, and performing warehouse duties.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Load, deliver, and unload product orders safely to customers
• Maintain load manifests and all other vehicle documents, ensuring they are properly completed and balanced with truck counts and shipping documents before and after deliveries
• Ensure all safety rules are strictly observed
• Establish and maintain good customer relations by communicating in person with customers, providing information on ordering and delivery times
• Pick, pack, and ship orders and products
• Operate a forklift, pallet jack, and other warehouse equipment
• Comply with all DOT and OSHA regulations
• Maintain appropriate driver's license and endorsements

Requirements

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• 2 years driving experience
• Must be at least 21 years old
• Must have a valid driver’s license and clean driving record
• Must be able to obtain a DOT medical card (CDL not required)
• Available to begin by early morning
• Ability to respond to official inquiries and make entries on reports and records

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• High school diploma or equivalent preferred
• Understanding of highway traffic signs and signals
• Basic computer experience or knowledge is a plus
• Forklift and pallet jack experience is a plus
• Must be able to read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with the general public

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Routinely bend, stoop, kneel, reach, and climb
• Ability to lift, carry, push, and pull objects and materials weighing 50 pounds or more
• Ability to safely operate a motor vehicle