Delivery Driver Job Description

Position Overview

South Jersey Bakery LLC, headquartered in Paulsboro, NJ, is a wholesale provider of a wide range of bakery products. As a Delivery Driver, your primary responsibilities involve loading bakery product, delivery of product lifting, pushing and pulling product off and on delivery truck and distributing to Dunkin’ Restaurants.

Essential Functions

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

• Efficiently deliver customer orders promptly and accurately
• Maintain customer satisfaction and positively impact SJB's image
• Strategically load orders into vehicle
• Drive safely to deliver orders
• Unload vehicle and arrange racks in appropriate layout in rack wash area
• Miscellaneous pick-up and delivery on SJB's behalf

Work Experience

Education and/or Experience:

• At least a year of experience driving a 26ft box truck
• Ability to read, speak and write English so as to assimilate, retain and apply training
• Retain knowledge of job functions and be able to recognize and communicate problems, as well as recommend solutions
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here 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 employee is exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, moving parts, high/precarious places, fumes and/or airborne particles, toxic and/or caustic chemicals and outside weather conditions including extreme cold.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Reports To: Delivery Supervisor

Physical Demands:

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 communicate.
• The employee is frequently required to stand for a prolonged time, walk and sit.
• The employee is occasionally required to use hands to handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb and/or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.