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Form of work***$15.50 an hour***
Seasonal Position
Requisition ID: 184705
Company: Heartland Coca-Cola Bottling Company, LLC
Heartland Coca-Cola Bottling Company, LLC (“Heartland Coca-Cola”) produces, sells, and distributes the highest quality and best tasting Coca-Cola beverages across Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois. Our success is rooted in the guiding principles of putting PEOPLE first, serving our local COMMUNITY, and providing great brands to our CUSTOMERS and consumers. We work and win together as a team by promoting a culture that values how our people think, feel, and act.
The Driver Helper is responsible for assisting the Driver Merchandiser with route deliveries and additional merchandising of all products. Excellent customer service skills are required.
Our Driver Helpers monitor product date codes and rotate our products to ensure the best quality and freshness for our customers.
- Rides with the Driver Merchandiser to the accounts on the route. While at the account, helps transport product from the truck/trailer to the customer’s backroom or beverage area.
- Merchandise, display, and rotate product according to company standards.
- Provide polite and cordial customer service skills through positive in-person communication.
- Picks up company property from customer locations and collects returns
- Speaking: Constantly with customers (investigates, negotiates, recommends, reports, etc.)
- Acute Vision: Constantly (observing both near and far, reading documents)
- Typing: Frequently using electronic devices for day-to-day business (order confirmation, instant messaging, texting)
- Mobility: Frequent travel throughout customer locations (Walking in backrooms, aisles, greeting customers)
- Bending/Squatting: Frequently (lifting and placing product from the truck to the ground or from pallets to shelf)
- Lifting: Frequent- Lift 50 lbs. or less (full cases of product)
- Pushing/pulling: Frequent use of manual carts
- Climbing: Frequent entering and exiting the cab of a truck
- Able to be certified on manual and powered pallet jacks (includes hand trucks)
- Able to be certified on high loader lift (where applicable)
- High School Diploma/GED preferred.
- Minimum of one year of work experience required.
- Capable of traveling constantly between customer accounts.
- Prior experience using pallet jack or forklift preferred. Ability to obtain certification upon hire is required.
- Ability to work with limited supervision.
At Heartland Coca-Cola Bottling Company, LLC (“Heartland Coca-Cola”), we offer a competitive benefits package to our full-time employees including medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, 401(k), and vacation.
We require all applicants to undergo a background verification process prior to employment. This process will also include a drug screen, a review of Motor Vehicle Records for those who drive for the company as part of their job, and a fit for duty testing as required for some positions. Employment with Heartland Coca-Cola is contingent on the satisfactory completion of its background verification process.
Heartland Coca-Cola is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE), and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, and any other class protected by law.
