Delivery Driver Trainee

United Carolina Beverages & Caffey Distributing Company; Hickory (NC); On-site; USD 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

United Carolina Beverages & Caffey Distributing Company in North Carolina is seeking a CDL-A trainee delivery driver. This role develops the skills and knowledge to become a safe, professional driver, gaining hands-on experience with delivery operations, customer service, route execution, and merchandising standards.

You will learn to operate equipment safely, prepare invoices, assist stores, and represent the company in a professional, customer-focused manner while adhering to safety and

Qualifications

• Ability to read, write and understand simple instructions.
• Fundamental math skills for counting and basic transactions.
• Commitment to safety and professional presentation.
• Willingness to learn delivery operations and merchandising standards.

Responsibilities

• Develop skills to become a safe CDL-A delivery driver.
• Learn to deliver stops professionally to all areas and departments.
• Prepare invoices and collect payments from customers.
• Resolve service issues and maintain customer relationships.
• Restock displays and ensure merchandising standards.
• Uphold safety, dress code, and company policies.

Skills

Customer service

Basic math

Reading and writing

Safety conscious

Professional demeanor

Communication

Education

High school education not required

Job description

The primary responsibility of this role is to develop the skills and knowledge necessary tobecome a safe, professional, and effective CDL-A delivery driver. This position is designed forindividuals completing CDL training and gaining hands-on experience with delivery operations,customer service, route execution, and merchandising standards. The individual will beexpected to learn and perform all aspects of the delivery process, operate company equipmentsafely, and represent the company in a professional and customer-focused manner.ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:• Develop the skills and knowledge necessary to become a safe, professional, andeffective CDL-A delivery driver Is familiar with and certified to use all types of deliveryequipment, including pallet jacks, docks and dock-levelers, trucks and trailers percompany and OSHA standards.• Learn how to professionally deliver stops in all areas and departments to ensureflexibility.• Learn how to prepare invoices, collect payments from customers and recordtransactions on customer receipt.• Listen to and resolve service complaints.• Represent the company in a professional manner and provide excellent customerservice.• Maintain a friendly, working relationship with the Manager on each account on allroutes in assigned area• Confer with Delivery Supervisors to resolve customer problems, opportunities,competitive activity in your market, and potential overage situations• Check in product with Store Manager, following store policy.• Restock cold boxes, displays, shelves and other areas where products are available forsale.• Responsible for keeping back stock, cold box and displays rotated and in a clean andorganized manner• Adhere to company account and merchandising standards in all accounts.• Responsible for adhering to Overage Beer Policy• Maintain safe driving record and comply with company driving policy.• Attending all scheduled meetings and company functions as required.• Adhere to dress code, including safety non-negotiables,” and be properly groomed.• Obey all federal, state, and local laws.• Perform other duties as assigned.QUALIFICATIONSTo perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential dutysatisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/orability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals withdisabilities to perform the essential functions.EDUCATIONDuties require the ability to read, write and understand simple instructions. Requires anunderstanding of basic math, accuracy in checking, sorting, counting, and other routineprocedures. A high school education is not required but would provide the basic skills necessaryto learn the jobPHYSICAL DEMANDSThe physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by anemployee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonableaccommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essentialfunctions.While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to reach with handsand arms and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; sit; climb orbalance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The job entails considerable physical effortconsisting of:• Continuously lifting or moving average-weight material, or• Continuously lifting or moving light-weighted material in difficult work positions, or• Frequently moving or lifting heavy-weight material, or• Frequently lifting or moving average-weight material in difficult work positions, or• Occasionally lifting or moving heavy-weight material in difficult work positions, or• In each case expending equivalent effort pulling, pushing, or carrying