Route​/Driver Supervisor

Overview

Route Supervisor — Unitex is experiencing unprecedented growth. We are in search of a highly skilled Driver / Route Supervisor for our facility in New Brunswick, NJ (10A).

Schedule: Monday - Friday.
Must be able to start as early as 3:00 AM or 3:45 AM.

Compensation: The salary range for this position is $65,000 per year. Actual compensation decisions are based on factors such as experience, seniority, location, and other permissible job-related factors.

Role Context: In this position you will be out on the road with drivers and also covering routes when needed. This is not an office job.

• Establish and maintain customer contact on a regular basis
• Introduce new products/services to customers
• Address issues regarding credit requests, credit and payment terms, contract status, service delivery frequency and service days with customers
• Participate in route settlement with the goal of improving issue resolution, COD pickups, and paperwork integrity
• Schedule new account installations, including day stop sequence, first deliveries and other matters with the customer
• Other service related duties as appropriate

• Supervises 3-5 route drivers, including hiring, training, developing and disciplining
• Fills in for drivers as required
• Regularly goes out with drivers to monitor customer service and job safety skills

• Must have been a driver for a company as you will be driving a 26 ft box truck
• Must have supervisory experience
• Driving experience in a service environment is needed
• Demonstrated customer service skills
• Strong management and communications skills
• Must be able to supervise drivers
• Efficient time management skills
• Must be able to resolve issues in the appropriate time frame
• Must be organized with excellent follow-up skills
• Very strong interpersonal and telephone skills
• Good with numbers
• Clean driver’s license
• Job is physical in nature – must be able to lift heavy objects up/down stairs and load heavy items into trucks

Unitex offers a competitive compensation package including health insurance, 401K with employer matching, paid vacation, sick days, etc. Visit our website at  to learn more about our company and watch our recruiting video at  to see us in action and hear from our employees.

Unitex
10A Van Dyke Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

EOE

About Unitex:
For more than 100 years, our family-run business has been leading the way in the medical uniform and linen rental industry. Today, with 1900 employees and growing, we are the largest family-owned healthcare service provider in the country. Every single day, Unitex is behind the scenes cleaning, preparing and delivering the linen that helps healthcare professionals provide the best care to their patients.

Unitex is an essential service to the healthcare industry which translates to a safe and stable workplace that makes it easy for people to apply their skills to become successful in every one of our roles. We actively hire drivers, mechanics and production operators, clerical positions and various management and outside sales roles. All of Unitex’s roles include competitive pay, medical benefits, PTO time and more.

We are committed to training, developing and promoting our employees. Those with a solid work ethic, who are self-motivated, reliable and flexible succeed n it comes to stable, long-term employment with diverse growth opportunities, Unitex has it all. Join Unitex and become part of a winning team.