CDL Class B Driver

CLASS B CDL DRIVER
Summary:**
Delivers customer orders using Lezzer delivery vehicle(s) in excess of 26,000 lb. GVW following safe driving and standard unloading, customer service, and operational practices.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:**
Duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Assists in or performs the loading of delivery vehicles with customer orders.
• Delivers customer orders as assigned using sound and safe delivery practices for all types of deliveries.
• Safely operates delivery equipment including truck-mounted forklift.
• Provides courteous job site delivery service to all customers and customer representatives.
• Properly completes delivery invoice documents.
• Corrects or brings to the attention of the Dispatcher any unsafe vehicle condition or maintenance requirement.
• Performs basic yard housekeeping duties as assigned in the yard and related storage facility areas.
• Verifies and returns customer returned merchandise to the yard as requested.
• Promptly and accurately complete DOT regulated driver and vehicle documents.
• Performs daily preventative maintenance checks on delivery vehicles following company guidelines and maintains the cleanliness and appearance of the delivery fleet.
• Supervises the spreading of merchandise on jobsite
• Assists in maintaining a clean, organized jobsite.
• Follows safe vehicle and equipment operation and general yard practices.
• Immediately reports all accidents, injuries, and incidents of damage to merchandise, physical plant and equipment and customer property to the Dispatcher, Yard Manager, Assistant or Location Manager.
• Knows and practices safe and proper lifting, carrying, and materiel maneuvering practices.

Business Measurements:

• Proper loading and unloading techniques of building materials
• Routine vehicle maintenance
• Compliance of OSHA Standards
• Effective interaction with all levels of an organization
• Safe driving measures

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.

• Active CDL, Class B with air brake endorsement required.
• Ability to comply with and satisfactorily pass the pre-employment drug screen and random alcohol and drug screen testing per company policy.
• Knowledgeable of DOT regulations and ability to comply with same.
• Ability to work with moderate mathematical concepts such as calculating weights for material distribution at jobsite.
• Knowledge of lumber and building materials.
• Ability to analyze and reason in concepts of carrying, maneuvering, and unloading materials.
• Knowledge of delivery methods and techniques.
• Two to four years’ experience in merchandise delivery and customer service preferred.
• Ability to complete a forklift operator's certification.
• Demonstrates superior customer service.

Supervisory Responsibilities:
There are no supervisory responsibilities associated with this job.

Physical Demands / Work Environment
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. Work environment characteristics 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 associate is regularly required to talk and hear.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close and night vision.
• The noise level in the work environment is quiet to noisy.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is almost always exposed to outside weather conditions.
• Frequently required to lift and carry items of 100+ pounds for a moderate distance.
• Continuously exposed to heavy equipment such as delivery vehicles or lift trucks.
• Must be able to operate the controls of a vehicle with a manual transmission.

Job Type: Full-time

Trucking home time:

• Home daily

Work Location: In person