Overnight Yard Jockey RI

Ace Endico; Woonsocket (RI); On-site; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in food and beverage services is hiring an Overnight Yard Jockey. The role involves preparing trucks and trailers for loading, ensuring safety practices, and maintaining equipment. Candidates must have a valid Commercial Drivers' License and strong customer service skills.

Qualifications

• Must be able to read, write, and communicate in English.
• Must have basic math skills (add, subtract, multiply, divide).
• Must be at least 18 years of age.

Responsibilities

• Prepare trucks and trailers for loading, including moving them in and out of dock doors.
• Ensure the refrigeration unit is operating correctly.
• Help keep the truck yard free of debris and trash.

Skills

Excellent customer service skills

Basic math skills

Education

Valid Commercial Drivers’ License

Job description

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The primary function of this position is to prepare trucks and trailers for loading, which includes moving trucks and trailers in and out of dock doors for loading and unloading, fueling, precooling/heating trailers and maintaining equipment.

An individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential duty listed below. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Works with loaders and warehouse management to move trucks and trailers from one location to another according to door assignments.
• Checks to ensure that each truck/trailer is sealed with bulkheads and the refrigeration unit is operating correctly and running.
• Ensures the truck or trailer is completely loaded and secured before moving from the dock area.
• Ensures truck equipment is charged.
• Arranges trucks and trailers on the yard in an orderly and efficient manner.
• Helps keep the truck yard free of debris and trash.
• Adhere to all safety practices and company policies and food safety principles. Immediately advise supervisor of any unsafe conditions.
• Attend all required company meetings.
• Perform other related tasks as assigned by supervisor/management.
  
  

Scheduled Hours: Monday-Friday (7:00PM-3:30AM)

Pay Rate: $25.00/Hourly

• Education/Training
• Must possess a valid Commercial Drivers’ License issued by the state of legal residence and be DOT qualified.
• Must be able to read, write and communicate in the English language as it relates to the job and safety requirements - able to hold a conversation, to understand highway traffic signs and signals, to respond to official inquiries, and to enter information on reports and records.
• Must have basic math skills (add, subtract, multiply, divide)
• Physical Requirements: The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, bend, twist, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• Overtime hours, working weekends and holidays.
• Frequently enter/exit truck
• Frequently lift, push, pull or move equipment that weighs up to 100 pounds using safety lifting practices
  
  

• Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
• Must be able to work the assigned schedule including various night start times, 10+ hour shifts, overtime, weekends and holidays.
• Must be able to use, or learn to use, all equipment and tools used to perform the job.
• Must have excellent customer service skills.
• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• Must adhere to all safety practices and company policies.
  

No more than two convictions in the past two-year period for traffic violations. No more than one of these may be a serious (as defined by DOT) violation or result of an accident - company or private vehicle; No DUI convictions within past three years, regardless of type of vehicle operated; no driver's license suspension within past three years (insurance and overweight tickets are excluded); and no termination by previous employer for failure to comply with safety regulations or for accident involvement for the past three years.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing

• Industries

  Food and Beverage Services

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