Route Delivery Driver

Overview

At Pacific Seafood, we do more than just provide the world with the healthiest proteins on the planet. We are an excellence-driven organization committed to being the brand of choice in the marketplace and the employer of choice in the community. We believe in servant leadership, investing in our team members, and rewarding performance. We live by the core values of our Diamond Philosophy:
Quality, Teamwork, Productivity, and Excellence—which means consistently doing your best and always striving to do better.

Summary: The Route Delivery Driver at Pacific Seafood is a key role on our Transportation team supporting efforts to maintain operational efficiency, enhance brand reputation, and help drive sales. This position involves providing accurate product and pricing information, taking orders, and ensuring product is delivered in a safe and efficient manner and is ideal for someone who is customer service oriented, safety conscious, and pays close attention to detail.

• Support operational efficiency, enhance brand reputation, and help drive sales as part of the Transportation team.
• Provide accurate product and pricing information, take orders, and ensure delivery is safe and efficient.
• Load goods into trucks in a safe and logical order; communicate needed changes to the manager; ensure the load is properly secured.
• Verify orders to ensure correct products are loaded and delivered; deliver orders according to predetermined route delivery schedule; communicate routing changes to the manager.
• Handle merchandise in a safe and efficient manner; unload products from the delivery truck and place product as the customer desires.
• Provide efficient, accurate and productive service to the customer.
• Perform backhauls, airport pickups, etc., as needed.
• Ensure all necessary delivery paperwork is completed accurately and in full; complete credit/debit documentation accurately; return all shipping documents and related materials to the designated area on completion of deliveries.
• Maintain cleanliness of the vehicle and report any maintenance problems to the manager.
• Maintain the integrity of the company–customer relationship as it applies to the scope of the job function; address and/or communicate customer issues and requests promptly to facilitate resolution; represent the company positively in all customer interactions.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.
• Perform required safety checks (pre/post trip) to ensure they meet company safety standards and take appropriate action as needed; report safety issues and/or repairs required; follow DOT regulations and company safe driving guidelines and policies; adhere to all company, state and federal rules, regulations, policies and procedures.

Required:

• High school diploma or GED
• A minimum of one year of related experience in delivery and sales of perishable food products
• Valid driver’s license
• Clean Motor Vehicle Report (MVR) for past 3 years
• The ability to pass a road test

Preferred:

• Proven track record of succeeding in time-sensitive situations
• Familiarity with local area, including streets, highways, and buildings

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the team member:

• Standing for sustained periods
• Walking to move about on foot to accomplish tasks
• Reaching with hands and arms in any direction
• Grasping and applying pressure to objects with the fingers and palm
• Talking to convey detailed or important spoken instructions
• Hearing and perceiving sounds at normal levels with or without correction
• Regularly required to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
• Occasionally required to lift and/or move up to 100 pounds
• Occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl
• Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus

The working environment characteristics described here are representative of those a team member encounters while performing the essential functions of…