What are the responsibilities and job description for the DRIVER position at Veritiv?
Job Summary:
As a Veritiv truck driver, you will provide exceptional service to our clients by partnering with a successful team of innovative and value driven employees to deliver and pick up stock as routed in a timely and safe manner.
Benefits:
- $5,000 Sign on Bonus
- Monday – Friday
- Home Daily
- Medical and Retirement Benefits Available Day 1
Job Responsibilities:
- Transport goods and supplies onsite and offsite working within established procedures to ensure on-time delivery.
- Visually inspect loaded trucks to ensure the orders are pulled, packaged, converted, shipped and loaded properly to avoid damages during transportation. Report all defects or equipment problems to supervisor.
- Work according to an assigned schedule.
- Provide professional and courteous interactions with customers to provide a positive experience
- File and retrieve the proper documents and delivery records from the company filing systems while monitoring the inventory quality and quantity availability.
- Follow a range of mandatory work instructions to safeguard the environment and the wellbeing of oneself and others.
- Report any problems or issues with facilities and customers.
- Operate various equipment and machines, adjusting one or more variables to achieve efficiency.
- The driver position may also help with various warehouse duties including order filling, loading/unloading of trucks, wrapping and other duties as assigned.
Work Experience:
- 12 months of Class A tractor/trailer driving experience within a ten-year period.
- Must have a valid Class A CDL.
- Must observe all Department of Transportation and driving regulations resulting in a safe driving record and a clean Motor Vehicle Record.
- Position requires a minimum of 21 years of age.
- High school diploma or GED preferred.
- Hazmat endorsement preferred and required within your first six weeks of hire.
- Ability to operate a variety of material handling equipment required. Liftgate experience preferred.
- Familiarity with a computerized warehouse system preferred.
- Excellent organizational, time management and customer relations skills are required.
- Strong problem-solving abilities and attention to detail required.
- Ability to work independently, as well as in a team environment.
Working Conditions:
Responsibilities include regularly working in outside weather conditions, exposure to extremes of temperature, visibility, wet and/or humid conditions and vibrations.- Noise level in the work environment is typically loud.
- Exposure to dust, mechanical hazards, moving objects, operating vehicle and shift work is required.
Physical Requirements:
Requirements are representative of those needed to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Ability to lift, twist and carry 50 – 75 pounds, manipulate (pushing and pulling) up to 160 pounds of product with material handling equipment, and skids weighing up to 2,000 pounds utilizing pallet jack.
- Physical activities required of this job include, but are not limited to:
- Walking/Standing - walk throughout the warehouse to complete customer orders. Stand when operating order picker or reach truck equipment and when operating cutter.
- Sitting - sit only when driving sit-down material handling equipment.
- Lifting - lift items weighing a few ounces up to 150 pounds with assistance.
- Stooping - performed when filling orders or putting away products assigned to floor level locations. May bend at the waist.
- Kneeling - may kneel when filling orders or putting away products assigned to floor level locations.
Veritiv is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Individuals seeking employment are considered without regards to race, ethnicity, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age, disability, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status or any other classification protected by law. Additionally, Veritiv will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with Veritiv’s legal duty to furnish information. If you would like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant, please click here: http://www.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf
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This description does not attempt to define the job's essential functions as defined by applicable disabilities law.