Route Sales Driver

Salary Range: $54,000

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, start time between 3am-5am with a 10+ to 11+ hour work shift. Willingness to work overtime, additional days, and federal holidays if needed.

Responsible for safely driving a commercial motor vehicle over established route to deliver and sell dairy products, stock and rotate all products, and provide excellent customer service.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Deliver dairy products safely and on time to customers.
• Provide excellent customer service to ensure customer retention and expand sales.
• Stock, rotate, and remove out-of-date, damaged, or unsellable product.
• Maintain a clean and fully stocked display area for each customer.
• Pick up all empty milk crates.
• Resolve discrepancies and minor customer issues, alerting management when necessary.
• Use a handheld computer to order products, calculate sales, and track inventory daily.
• Comply with DOT regulations and company policy, including required pre- and post-trip inspections and completing required paperwork daily.
• Maintain assigned truck in a neat and clean condition, including inside cab and refrigerated box.

• Possess a Class A or Class B CDL.
• High school diploma or general education degree (GED).?
• Customer Service or Sales Experience is a plus.
• Direct Store Delivery experience is a plus.
• Excellent motor vehicle report.
• Ability to read, write, add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure.
• Ability to pass DOT physical, drug screen, and physical abilities test.
• Must be organized, detail-oriented, and possess excellent communication and customer service skills.

• Communication: Communicate clearly and effectively through multiple channels—oral, written, visual, and non-verbal—for both internal and external audiences.
• Accountability: Take responsibility for actions, anticipate challenges, solve problems, and work independently while supporting others to ensure collective goals are met.
• Customer Focused: Prioritize understanding and meeting customer needs, ensuring high levels of satisfaction and loyalty.
• Initiative: Proactively identify opportunities and address potential threats, acting decisively rather than waiting for situations to demand action.
• Problem-Solving: Recognize and analyze complex issues with minimal guidance, developing practical and effective solutions while supporting collaboration.

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 sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand and walk. The employee must be able to reach, bend, extend, and lift 50-60 pounds.

• Must be able to frequently walk, stand, stoop, bend, reach, climb, and pull.
• Must be able to frequently lift milk case weighing up to 55 lbs. and push/pull stacks of milk weighing 250-300 lbs. using provided equipment.

The work environment may require working in a cooler room with varying degrees of temperature and contact with water or dairy liquids. Exposure to a noise level of 90 decibels, wet/slippery work conditions, and frequent temperature changes (hot, cold, refrigerated, and coolers) is expected.

• The work environment may require working in the cooler room with varying degrees of temperature and may include contact with water or dairy liquids.
• Exposed to a noise level of 90 decibels; the noise level is usually moderate to high.
• Ability to tolerate frequent temperature changes, hot and cold environments, inside, outside, refrigerated areas, and coolers.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

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