Local Delivery Driver - Hourly at American… · Glendale

Local Delivery Driver - Hourly

Job Overview

American Furniture Warehouse is currently hiring a dependable Hourly Delivery Driver to support our delivery and warehouse teams. Delivery Drivers will assist the Delivery Department with special deliveries, timed deliveries, or any customer that needs to have merchandise delivered to resolve any issue.

The Hourly Delivery Driver will also assemble, inspect, inventory, and load merchandise for routes to be delivered, and will assist any other department as needed and at the direction of the AFW management team.

Full-time, hourly position

Job Responsibilities & Duties

Typical duties include but are not limited to:

• Commitment to AFW’s safety policies and procedures and ability to promote awareness.
• Team-lift furniture and other merchandise in and out of trucks, warehouses, and customer homes using equipment such as forklifts, pallet jacks, and reach lifts.
• Assemble/disassemble merchandise correctly and efficiently using a variety of tools while sustaining a high level of quality assurance and attention to detail in the customer’s home.
• Able to identify and read invoices and UPC labels to ensure invoices are complete.
• Inspect and inventory all merchandise before delivery load out.
• Efficiently and safely load and unload merchandise to and from a delivery truck.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to explain merchandise and policies to customers.
• Ability to team lift merchandise off and on a box truck and in and out of a customer’s home.
• Maintain a clean safe work environment including but not limited to truck cabs and straight box trucks.
• Work closely with a delivery partner to complete daily delivery routes.
• Must be willing to chain up during severe weather.
• Must function and interact on a routine basis with Customer Service and the AFW management team.
• Have the Initiative to work in a physically demanding, fast pace environment for an extended period of time.
• Able to communicate effectively with team members, supervisors, and customers.
• Time management and organizational skills.
• Coordinate and work effectively with multiple departments to continuously improve processes, maximize efficiency and exceed customer service expectations.
• Ability to efficiently work independently of direct supervision.
• All training provided by AFW

Job Requirements

• Clean Motor Vehicle Record with 2 or fewer moving violations within the past 3 years.
• Obtain and maintain a D.O.T Physical card (AFW covers the cost!)
• Able to perform vehicle pre-trips up to FMCSA standards.
• Able to have a flexible schedule and work all shifts, holidays, and weekends.
• Assembly/Delivery experience preferred.
• Knowledge of and the ability to perform the correct lifting/team lifting techniques.
• Experience using hand tools.
• Provide your own basic hand tools (a company tool purchasing program is available).
• Ability to safely operate a company-approved safety knife.
• Must be able to learn, understand, and apply new technologies, including Dispatch Track and pads.
• Professional appearance.
• Be available to work a flexible schedule, including all shifts, holidays, and weekends.

Compensation

• Pay Rate: Starting at $21 per hour
• At AFW we offer great perks: weekly pay, vacation and sick pay, benefits package (medical, dental, vision) and 401k matching!

Physical Requirements

• Requires the ability to maneuver in confined and at times congested areas, not limited to but including stairways, hallways, and elevators.
• Requires the ability to stand, walk, stoop, & bend for 10 hours or more daily.
• Requires constant use of arms, hands, fingers, eyes, legs, and back.
• Requires lift, lower, push and pull all sizes of merchandise up to 100 lbs. frequently and ability to handle/manipulate up to 250 lbs. frequently.
• Requires lifting, gripping, bending, kneeling, stooping, and moving merchandise for 10 hours or more daily.
• Able to work in various weather conditions. The physical environment requires the employee to work both inside and outside in heat/cold, wet/humid, and dry/arid conditions.

Work Environment

• Fluorescent Lighting
• Concrete Flooring
• Climate is affected by outside conditions including extreme heat/cold internally and externally.
• Considerable exterior/interior noise

Pay Grade B: $16.00-$29.71

If you want to know more about American Furniture Warehouse and what we do click on the link below!

https://youtu.be/QjaYn\_sn\_AM

American Furniture Warehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V. Working Safely is a Condition of Employment at American Furniture Warehouse – an Affirmative Action Employer M/F/D/V.

A pre-employment drug screen, background and fit for duty exam check must be passed upon job offer.

Since 1975, our motto has been Under Promise and Over Deliver and this is exactly what we do on a daily basis! At AFW, we strongly believe in recognizing those who exemplify excellence, and reward them for contributing to our collective success. We strive to provide a great work environment for our employees and give them the knowledge and tools needed to provide our customers with an even greater buying experience. At American Furniture Warehouse We Do It Right the First Time!