Route Specialist CDL Class A

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Locations: Dayton

Pay Range: $20 - $30 hourly, depending on experience

Requisition : 241633

Uncap Your Potential at America's Largest Coca‑Cola Bottler – Pour Your Passion into Purpose! We’re more than beverages—we’re building meaningful careers and vibrant communities. Join our team where your talent meets purpose, and every teammate directly shapes our success.

The Route Specialist will cover teammates’ routes when they are away and maintain their established routes, including orders, delivery, and unloading our products at customer locations on designated routes, in a courteous, professional, compliant, safe, and timely manner. This fast‑paced role is also responsible for stocking and facing products on displays and shelves, in coolers and cold vaults while ensuring that appropriate rotation standards are maintained.

The Route Specialist may be asked to train new route sales teammates and assist the Supervisor as time permits, handle urgent customer needs to satisfy commitments made to customers, and serve as an ambassador of our company and the world’s most recognized brands.

• Cover vacation routes competently to maintain established route standards and sales and prevent missing important opportunities, ensuring a high level of customer service.
• Order, fill, merchandise, and rotate products on shelves, displays, cold vaults, and cooler equipment, according to company standards.
• Perform specified activities per route discipline (bulk, conventional, full service, and cold bottle).
• Assist the Supervisor in training new route sales teammates and support supervisors, focusing on safety, efficiency, and customer service.
• Handle urgent customer needs to meet commitments made to customers in a timely, consistent, and professional manner, partnering with sales, delivery, and customer‑management teams.
• Assist supervisor with projects, tasks across the territory, and other duties as assigned.

• Perform job duties with minimal supervision on a timely basis.
• Past job performance must reflect dependability, initiative, professional demeanor, and the ability to exercise sound judgment.
• Work in a fast‑paced continuous‑lifting environment.
• Lift up to 50 lbs. of product repetitively.
• Availability to work some weekends and some holidays.
• Previous route delivery, direct store delivery, stocking, merchandising products, or retail management experience is strongly preferred.
• Excellent safety record.
• Push and pull manual and powered material handling equipment (e.g., pallet jack, hand‑truck) containing product loads for a minimum of 100 yards without assistance.
• Read, speak, write, and understand English to perform basic math skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division).
• Route Specialist is a senior role capable of covering any route discipline.

• Valid driver’s license for your state of residency with an excellent driving history reflected on a 7‑year Motor Vehicle Report.
• Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) or permit (Class A) or the ability to obtain such.
• Ability to pass and maintain D.O.T. physical requirements.

• High school diploma or GED.
• Retail management or merchandising experience.

Work environment will vary, including exposure to weather conditions, coolers, and customer storage areas which may be non‑temperature controlled.

Equal Opportunity Employer - All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.