Route Driver

nexAir, LLC; Cave City (KY); On-site; USD 25,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

nexAir, LLC in Cave City, KY seeks a full-time Driver/Delivery Specialist to deliver hard goods and cylinders, returning empties for refilling. You will maintain load manifests and vehicle documents to balance truck counts and shipping records.

You will build strong customer relations, communicate costs and delivery times, monitor customer needs, and operate forklifts/pallet jacks safely. CDL A/B with Hazmat and DOT compliance required.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required.
• 1 year of driving experience required.
• CDL A or B with Hazmat certification required.
• Employee must meet DOT physical standards.
• Clean MVR driving record.
• Ability to read MSDS.

Responsibilities

• Upload, deliver and download hard goods orders and cylinders; return empty cylinders for refilling.
• Maintain load manifests and vehicle documents balanced with truck counts and shipping docs.
• Establish and maintain good customer relations; communicate costs, ordering and delivery times.
• Identify and monitor customer needs to minimize emergency deliveries.
• Operate a forklift, pallet jack and other warehouse equipment.
• Ensure all safety rules are observed.

Skills

Customer relations

Safety compliance

Equipment operation

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Forklift

Pallet jack

Job description

• Upload, deliver and download safely to customers hard goods orders, as well as, cylinders containing compressed gases; return empty cylinders to plant for refilling.
• 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.
• Establish and maintain good customer relations, by communicating in person with customers, providing information on cost, ordering and delivery times, etc.
• Identify and monitor customers’ needs and work with them to maintain proper hardgoods and cylinder levels to minimize or eliminate emergency deliveries.
• Operate a forklift, pallet jack and other warehouse equipment.
• Ensure all safety rules are strictly observed.

Specific Job Responsibilities

• Upload, deliver and download safely to customers hard goods orders, as well as, cylinders containing compressed gases; return empty cylinders to plant for refilling.
• 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.
• Establish and maintain good customer relations, by communicating in person with customers, providing information on cost, ordering and delivery times, etc.
• Identify and monitor customers’ needs and work with them to maintain proper hardgoods and cylinder levels to minimize or eliminate emergency deliveries.
• Operate a forklift, pallet jack and other warehouse equipment.
• Ensure all safety rules are strictly observed.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
• One (1) year driving experience.
• CDL A or B with HAZMAT.
• Employee must meet all physical qualification standards imposed by the DOT.
• Clean MVR driving record.
• Ability to read and comprehend Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS).
• While performing the essential duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and walk on concrete for an extended period of time, bend, use hands and arms, must be able to handle cylinders regularly weighing 150 pounds, up to a maximum of 600 pounds. The employee also occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and hazardous materials and is regularly exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risks of electrical shock. The employee is regularly exposed to outside weather conditions.
• Flexibility to work overtime as required.

Classification

• Hourly, Non-Exempt Employee
• Full-time