What are the responsibilities and job description for the Driver Assistant(s) position at Morris Furniture Company, Inc.?
DRIVER ASSISTANT
Our Values
At Morris Furniture Company, our values represent our distinctive core beliefs-the Morris way of doing business. Our Mission is “Making Homes Great” and we bring our mission to life through our values of: Professionalism, Quality, Ownership, Collaboration, Integrity and Fun.
Purpose
In this role, the Driver Assistant will accompany a Senior Driver or Driver on a pre-planned route while providing superior customer service as they unload, deliver, and install furniture.
General Description Of Duties
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 stand, sit, talk, hear, see, bend, twist, and lift 50 pounds. Employees will need to be able to operate a dolly, wheeled card, lifting straps, and other moving support equipment.
This job description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employees.
Our Values
At Morris Furniture Company, our values represent our distinctive core beliefs-the Morris way of doing business. Our Mission is “Making Homes Great” and we bring our mission to life through our values of: Professionalism, Quality, Ownership, Collaboration, Integrity and Fun.
Purpose
In this role, the Driver Assistant will accompany a Senior Driver or Driver on a pre-planned route while providing superior customer service as they unload, deliver, and install furniture.
General Description Of Duties
- Successfully work as a team with the Senior Driver, Driver, or other warehouse employees to safely load specified merchandise onto the truck in the correct order for delivery
- Items are typically on skates and can be pushed from the staging area directly onto the truck
- Bulky and awkward items should be loaded as a team
- Workers are required to ask for assistance with material handling of items greater than 100 pounds.
- Whenever possible workers should utilize various wheeled assistive devices such as dollys, carts, and skates to manipulate materials onto the truck
- Carefully handle furniture during delivery in all weather conditions to ensure safety for yourself, the customers, and the furniture being delivered
- Keep an accurate and up-to-date delivery log of all delivery stops utilizing the specified technology and process determined by management
- Follow the company process and guidelines to appropriately greet and communicate with customers at all delivery locations
- Determine the safest and most appropriate way to transport furniture into the delivery location
- Respond to communication from headquarter location regarding any route changes or updates
- Work together with the Senior Driver or Driver to move furniture items to designated location at the delivery site
- Complete any final assembly and/or set up as indicated by product type
- Assist in the assembly of merchandise that is scheduled for delivery, when necessary
- Ability to safely load and unload a box truck
- Ability to safely lift 50 pounds
- Ability to quickly move your hands and arms to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects when handling, installing, positioning, or moving furniture
- Ability to assemble all Morris Furniture Co., Inc. products
- Work as a part of a cooperative team where the members may change frequently
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Successful completion of Morris Furniture Co., Inc. Driver Training Program
- Valid State-Issued Driver’s License
- DOT Medical Card
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 stand, sit, talk, hear, see, bend, twist, and lift 50 pounds. Employees will need to be able to operate a dolly, wheeled card, lifting straps, and other moving support equipment.
This job description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employees.
