Driver - DOT & CDL License

DEPARTMENT: Warehouse

REPORTS TO: Warehouse Manager

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

The Driver - DOT & CDL License position is critical to ensuring the safe and timely transportation of goods across various regions within the United States. This role requires operating commercial motor vehicles in compliance with Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations and maintaining a valid Commercial Driver's License (CDL). The driver will be responsible for managing delivery schedules, performing vehicle inspections, and ensuring cargo is secured properly to prevent damage or loss. This position demands a high level of professionalism, attention to detail, and adherence to safety protocols to protect both the driver and the public. Ultimately, the role contributes to the efficient supply chain operations by delivering products reliably and maintaining excellent communication with dispatch and customers.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Safely operate trucks or other vehicles to more product within the warehouse and to external locations
• Load and unload products, ensuring proper handling to prevent damage
• Operate manual loading equipment such as pallet jacks and forklifts
• Use handheld scanners to accurately track inventory movements between warehouses
• Ensure proper weight distribution inside trailers, arrange goods according to safety and transportation guidelines
• Perform daily truck inspection and report any issues to our maintenance department
• Maintain a clean and organized loading dock area, cleaning debris and obstacles to ensure a safe working environment
• Keep trucks and trailers clean and free of debris
• Perform weekly cycle counts on all trailers

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Operate commercial vehicles safely and efficiently in accordance with DOT regulations and company policies.
• Conduct pre-trip, en-route, and post-trip inspections to ensure vehicle safety and report any mechanical issues promptly.
• Load and unload cargo, ensuring proper handling and securement to prevent damage during transit.
• Maintain accurate logs of driving hours, vehicle maintenance, and delivery records as required by law and company standards.
• Communicate effectively with dispatchers, customers, and team members to coordinate delivery schedules and resolve any issues that arise during transport.

• Safety Responsibilities:
• Supports a culture where employees address unsafe conditions and behaviors, make suggestions for improvements, and actively participates in implementing solutions
• Identifies safety gaps and self-initiates corrective actions
• Strictly adheres to plant safety, housekeeping, and 5S efforts
• Understands, identifies, and corrects safety hazards
• Drives a culture which empowers employees to understand and embrace what they own
• Food Safety Responsibilities:
• Monitors and verifies activities to ensure that finished goods and raw materials are coming in and out of the facility meet consumer safety and quality standards.
• Complies with all company food safety and quality assurance procedures
• Reports any product or process failures that could impact food safety of manufactured products to the location’s Food Safety Team Leader and submits an appropriate incident report

SKILLS REQUIRED:

• High school diploma or GED
• Strong driving skills with a clean driving record
• Must possess a CDL class A license
• Attention to detail, ability to multitask and communicate professionally with drivers, vendors and team members

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to lift and carry items up to 50lbs, perform team lift when required.
• Ability to operate forklifts and perform manual labor as required.
• Ability to enter and exist truck several times a day.

About MRP:

MRP Solutions (MRP), a plastic cap manufacturer, is a leading provider of high-quality, injection molded plastic closures, jars and packaging components used every day by millions of consumers around the globe. But we offer more than just plastic caps and lids – we deliver industry-leading packaging solutions tailored to each customer’s unique requirements, providing best-in-class product protection while ensuring consumer confidence.

MRP Solutions combines extensive packaging expertise with a consultative approach to reliably uncover customer needs. By understanding your business goals, we can tailor smarter, safer, and more flexible packaging solutions that reduce cost and increase speed to market, helping your businesses capitalize on opportunity. By constantly innovating, MRP enables our customers to grow, making us a preferred partner.

We are passionate about partnering with distributors and manufacturers who understand that plastic caps and lids are a small but important part of how people experience their brands. Together, we deliver packaging with purpose.

Our Vision:

We deliver industry-leading packaging solutions tailored to each customer’s unique requirements, providing best-in-class product protection while ensuring consumer confidence.

By constantly innovating, MRP enables our customers to grow, making us a preferred partner.

Our Values & Beliefs

• Integrity – We have the courage to act with the highest level of integrity, even when no one is watching. We do what is right 100% of the time.
• Value Creation – The sole reason a company exists is to create real long-term value for society. This starts with ensuring human safety, as value cannot be created without first protecting human life. We seek opportunities for mutual benefit with all of our stakeholders, including customers, employees, shareholders, suppliers, and the communities in which we operate. In everything we do, our overarching goal is to deliver superior results..
• Accountability - We are accountable to each other and to our stakeholders. We say what we do and do what we say. We embrace a culture of ownership, empowering and equipping employees with the ability to own their outcomes.
• Entrepreneurial - Everyone thinks and acts like owners, employing good economic and critical thinking skills while adopting the risk profile of our shareholders. We are inquisitive, constantly seeking out opportunities to improve, actively searching for and innovating across each and every aspect of our business. We relentlessly strive to understand and profitably anticipate what our customers need and value, because if our customers do not grow, we do not grow.
• Respectful and Friendly – Everyone deserves to be treated with respect and dignity. Because everyone's perspective has value, we embrace diversity of thought, background and experiences. We are friendly and lead with a smile. What we do is important, but how we do it is what makes it impactful.
• Change - We actively seek out and embrace change wherever profitable. Because society is constantly identifying and employing new and better ways of accomplishing tasks, we must constantly innovate, reinvent and, ultimately, destroy the old ways of doing business. We actively engage in rigorous debate and embrace challenge to ensure we stay relevant and deliver superior results.
• Fulfillment – Our employees are the foundation of our success. We foster an environment enabling our employees to learn, grow and accept more accountability as they demonstrate capability. We promote more than just individual connection as community at work brings people together through common interest, objectives or experiences.

MRP Solutions is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring or promotion based on race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, transgender status), national origin, age, disability, medical condition, marital or protected veteran status or any other basis or characteristic prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law. Consistent with the obligations of state and federal law, MRP Solutions will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Any employee who needs a reasonable accommodation should contact Human Resources