CDL A or B Driver

Description

At Second Harvest, we believe that everyone in our community should have consistent and equitable access to enough nutritious, relevant, and culturally meaningful food to thrive. We work towards our mission of ending hunger through food acquisition & storage, root cause work, and collaboration with the communities we support.

Since 1986 we have supported our neighbors to achieve food security across 16 counties in southwestern Wisconsin. As community needs have shifted over time, Second Harvest has worked to be responsive by introducing new programming and adding infrastructure to meet these identified needs.

Everyone in our Community has enough nutritious food to thrive.

Second Harvest exists to end hunger in southwestern Wisconsin.

Integrity | Trust | Humility | Inclusion | Equity | Innovation

The CDL A or B Driver’s primary responsibility is to safely drive the truck for picking up and delivering food. They will be the first face of Second Harvest Foodbank, representing our organization to our partner agencies and donors.

• Drive trucks safely to pick up and deliver food.
• Maintain accurate records for all donation pick-ups/deliveries.
• Provide back up for deliveries utilizing the sprinter van and other vehicles that might otherwise be completed by volunteers.
• Develop and maintain excellent relationships with all partner agencies, food donors, and other people involved in ending hunger.
• Understand and participate in ongoing safety program.
• Report equipment needing repairs to the Lead Driver
• Ensure program operations comply Second Harvest, State, and Local regulations.
• Work collaboratively with volunteers and operations team.
• Attend Driver and All Staff Meetings.
• Responsible for ensuring the general maintenance on all vehicles driven is performed on a regular basis.
• Perform any other duties as needed to ensure smooth operation of the distribution center, as well as to fulfill our mission, drive our vision and abide by our values.

• Able to maintain regular work schedule.
• Ability to stay focused on tasks; make the best use of available time and resources; balance quality of work with meeting deadlines.
• Provides customer service in a timely manner.
• Strives for process improvements and receptive to feedback.
• Respects confidentiality, truthful, and transparent.
• Adheres to all workplace safety standards and practices.
• Manages own time, priorities, and resources to achieve goals.
• Maintains composure in stressful or adverse situations.
• Ability to cultivate and develop equitable and inclusive working relationships with staff, volunteers, community partners, vendors and applicants.

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business written communications.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups, managers, agencies, customers and the general public.

• Possess the ability to calculate figures and amounts such as pounds of food

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.

• Employee must have the ability to utilize email.
• Employee will be expected to learn and effectively use internal software programs.

• Ability to operate tractor trailers ranging from 48' to 53'.
• Straight Trucks (up to 26 feet) and non CDL required vehicles like Box truck and Sprinter vans.
• Ability to operate forklift.
• Ability to operate pallet jack.
• Ability to operate warehouse equipment as necessary.

• Straight Trucks (up to 26 feet) and non CDL required vehicles like Box truck and Sprinter vans.
• Ability to operate forklift.
• Ability to operate pallet jack.
• Ability to…