Driver Helper

Are you looking for a great career, with excellent pay and benefits, and a schedule that allows you to enjoy family and hobbies outside of work?

We're a 75-year old, family-owned company passionate about our mission of Impacting Lives through Exceptional Service.

Summary:

To assist the driver in any way possible to make safe, accurate and expediate deliveries to the customers.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

•    None

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain clean, orderly, and safe work area.

• Accompany driver on route to assist with delivery or the product to the customer.
• At all stops get out of the truck and assist the driver while he is maneuvering the vehicle into a parked position.
• Report to work with neat appearance including the company uniform.
• Must always maintain a professional attitude and deliver excellent customer service.
• Unload case groceries and totes that are hand stacked in the truck by using two-wheeler and ramp.
• Check the invoice for refrigerated items and if necessary, climb into the front compartment of the trailer to retrieve these items for delivery.
• Take the loaded two-wheeler into the store and leave the items in a predetermined area.
• Load any damaged or returned items back into the truck for return to the warehouse.
• Required to unload any damaged or returned items on return for unscheduled duty
• Must be willing to occasionally perform Non-CDL deliveries or pickups as assigned.
• Must be willing to be gone from home overnight and possibly two or three nights per week.
• Required to attend safety meeting and other events as scheduled.
• Immediately report all personal injury accidents.

Qualifications:

 To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

Education and/or Experience:

• GSC provides on-the-job training.

Language Skills:

Ability to read a limited number of two- and three syllable words and to recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers.

Mathematical Skills:

Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10’s and 100’s.

Reasoning Ability:

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written and oral form.

Certificates, License, Registration:

• None

Computer Skills:

• None

Other Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen (18) years of age.
• Repetitive lifting, up to 115 pounds.
• Must live within a 30-mile radius of the distribution center and have a home telephone.
• Must be available for unscheduled duty.
• Personable
• Self-Motivated.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and listen. The employee is frequently required to sit; use hands to handle or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, climb, or balance; stoop and kneel. Position required bending, twisting, pushing, and pulling. The employee must frequently lift and/ or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/ or move more than 100 pounds. The ramp weighs 115 pounds and must be pulled out and put back at each stop. The employee is required to handle at least 300 pounds rolling weight on the two-wheeler. The employee must handle the two-wheeler on the ramp and may be required to pull uneven surfaces when wheeling the groceries into the store. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and outside weather. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.