DC Driver Associate

Provide customer service through the delivery and/or pick-up of parts and other products. During peak business periods, 70–80% of the role involves driving and delivering parts across multiple delivery routes. During non-peak periods, responsibilities include supporting the distribution center by picking, organizing, and staging parts for shipment and delivery. Additional duties include unloading products, maintaining warehouse inventory, and ensuring delivery vehicles are clean, safe, and in good operating condition.

Essential Tasks

• Drive assigned delivery vehicle (sprinter van or box truck) across multiple delivery routes, ensuring efficient and timely deliveries.

• Pick and organize parts for delivery according to route sequencing.

• Load delivery vehicles safely, using padding or bracing to protect items during transit.

• Follow assigned delivery routes to maximize efficiency.

• Pick up returns, cores, and other items and return them to the branch.

• Complete daily vehicle safety inspections/logs and maintain a clean delivery vehicle.

• Report any accidents, defects, violations, or damage immediately.

• Maneuver vehicles safely for loading/unloading, using spotters as needed.

• Maintain driver logs, service records, and regulatory documentation.

• Pull, pick, and stage customer orders for shipment or delivery during non-peak times.

• Load or unload materials manually from pallets, skids, or lifting devices.

• Stock and maintain inventory items in assigned warehouse locations.

• May Operate forklifts to move materials (after certification).

• Maintain warehouse cleanliness through sweeping, dusting, mopping, and trash removal.

• Inspect stock for wear or defects and report issues to supervisors.

Skills:

• Communicating: Conveying information to others in an effective manner. Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

• Active Learning: Understanding the implication of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. Ability to follow instructions to completion.

• Mathematics: Ability to solve simple equations; ability to use mathematics to solve problems.

• Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

• Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others’ actions.

Attributes

• Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.

• Oral Comprehension: The ability to understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

• Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.

• Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

• Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.

• Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.

• Far Vision: The ability to distinguish details at a distance.

• Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot or other body part.

• Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.

Physical Demands

• Handling of normal stock will include lifting or carrying parts in excess of 60 lbs. up to 15% of the time. Majority of lifting and carrying will involve parts between 5 and 60 lbs.

Environmental/ Atmospheric Conditions

• Inside/Outside Conditions, Varied Temperature Changes, Minimal Chemical Hazards, Vibration, Dust, Vehicle Noise

Equipment

• OSHA approved safety toed shoes required from the first day of this job.

• Proper protective equipment (PPE) will be worn when required and necessary.

Qualifications

Education

• High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate)

Professional Experience

• Minimum of 1 year of general warehouse experience.

• Forklift operator certification and 1 year experience operating a forklift highly desired.

Certifications/Licenses

• Valid drivers’ license with clean driving record.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. He or she will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other duties requested by his or her supervisor.

FleetPride is the leader in the industry comprised of retail, service, distribution and wholesale divisions.

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

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