Driver

Are you a community-minded driver looking for a stable, active, and deeply purposeful role? We are seeking a dependable Meals Driver to join our Nutrition Program team. In this vital role, you will be the face of our organization—loading, transporting, and delivering freshly prepared meals and essential supplies to individual senior clients at home and to community dining sites. More than just a delivery role, you will serve as a crucial touchpoint for vulnerable older adults, monitoring their well-being and ensuring they receive nutritious food with dignity, empathy, and 5-star customer service. If you are an attentive driver who thrives in a collaborative team environment and wants to make a direct, compassionate impact on seniors' lives every day, we welcome your application.

• Safe Delivery: Load and transport individual home-delivered meals and bulk foods to community sites and senior residents securely, punctually, and consistently.

• Temperature Integrity: Strictly observe all food safety delivery procedures and use temperature-control equipment to keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold during transport.

• Accuracy Verification: Cross-reference physical cargo against daily delivery slips to ensure every client and meal site receives the exact food and non-food supplies specified.

• Kitchen & Service Support: Collaborate closely with kitchen staff to pack, portion, and organize food shipments whenever determined necessary by department leadership.

• Policy Compliance: Adhere systematically to established public health standards, department safety rules, and donation box procedures for congregate programs.

• Defensive Driving: Maintain absolute adherence to safe driving practices, traffic laws, and transport protocols at all times.

• Vehicle Checklists: Complete mandatory daily pre- and post-trip vehicle inspection checklists, logging interior and exterior cleanliness, and promptly reporting any mechanical issues to the coordinator.

• Incident Reporting: Document and report any accidental vehicle damage or roadway incidents immediately following established safety and reporting procedures.

• Wellness Monitoring: Act as an essential set of eyes and ears in the field, immediately reporting any visible changes in a client's health, mobility, or living conditions to the Social Services Coordinator.

• Administrative Flow: Deliver daily correspondence, invoices, and paperwork between central production kitchens and localized senior meal sites.

• Professional Growth: Attend mandatory department meetings, contribute to team cleaning rotations, and maintain strict, ongoing compliance with all HIPAA privacy regulations.

• Other duties as needed.

• Licensure: A valid California State Driver’s License (Class C) maintained alongside an unencumbered, safe driving record.

• Core Aptitude: Demonstrated ability to follow precise oral and written instructions, read maps fluently, and utilize modern GPS navigation systems.

• Physical Capability: High physical stamina and manual dexterity; ability to stand, walk, sit, bend, climb, and kneel frequently.

• Lifting Capacity: Ability to frequently lift, carry, and move objects weighing up to 50 lbs. utilizing core, back, and abdominal muscle strength over extended periods.

• Environmental Adaptation: Comfort working around moving mechanical vehicle parts and in outside settings that include inclement weather, high heat, humidity, and occasionally loud environments.

• Education: High School Diploma or GED equivalent preferred.

• Professional Experience: One (1) or more years of professional driving, commercial delivery, or food service experience.

• Specialized Population: Prior experience working directly with seniors, frail older adults, or within a community health framework.

• Language Capabilities: Bi-lingual fluency in English/Spanish or English/Cantonese is highly preferred.

• Work Type: Full-Time, Permanent Position.

• Work Setting: Field-based community transportation and delivery combined with a centralized kitchen/office hub environment.

• Schedule: Stable, consistent daytime hours. (Note: Work sites, hours, and routing schedules may be adjusted occasionally to adapt to changing senior program needs).