Cargo Van Delivery Driver

Join The LDF Delivery Team

Now is the time to join the LDF Delivery Team and be a part of our growth and successes! We currently employ over 415 people across the Midwest and distribute some of the most widely known beverages in the world such as Coors Light, Coors Banquet, and Yuengling Beer.

LDF is looking for a full-time day shift delivery driver to join the LDF Delivery Team! This position will deliver beer and other beverages to our local accounts Tuesday through Friday and be home every night.

LDF offers a very competitive benefits package to include medical, dental, vision, 401k, and tuition reimbursement. In addition, we offer paid time off, bi-weekly pay, bonus/incentives, and uniforms included as well.

One of the important takeaways to LDF's long-lasting success is our honest and complete determination to do the right thing for our employees, customers, and the communities we live in. Community involvement and giving back is our priority and we believe in working beside each other as a team helping others. Some would even describe LDF's employees as a "work family" because of the relationships we build.

LDF is an aggressive, high performance, and fast-growing company that markets, sells, and distributes an expansive range of beer, wine, spirits, and non-alcoholic beverages in Kansas and Oklahoma. Larry D. Fleming, Chairman, founded LDF in 1983 and has maintained a steady growth as a premier wholesale distributor since this amazing journey began.

Our culture is diverse, and our employees feel appreciated but mostly we are inspired to accomplish our goals and contribute to the company's success. There is not a better time to join the LDF team than now! In addition, we have an awesome variety of craft, import, and domestic beer brands available.

Work Schedule:

4 day work week (Tues–Fri) home daily!

Benefits:

• 80 hours of PTO before your first anniversary!
• PTO continues to increase based on tenure.

Secure & stable employment with bi-weekly pay

Full benefits package to include retirement plan & tuition reimbursement.

Monthly bonuses & incentives

EAC – Employee Activity Committee (community involvement & employee activities/outings)

Uniforms provided.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

Adheres to all check-in/check-out policies and procedures. Assumes full responsibility for all products assigned to be delivered daily to include safeguards of same along with vehicles, and equipment from theft, abuse, or loss.

Sign for load sheet and verify number of carts and curtains. Review stop sheets daily and contact Delivery Supervisor or Distribution Manager regarding missing accounts.

Drives truck to deliver all ordered products to daily assigned accounts. Honors all customer requests authorized by management.

Stock and rotates all existing and delivered products on shelves and back stock. Sets up all promotional displays as assigned by specific salesperson. Adds and replaces all POS material as directed via daily handheld communication.

Collects empty kegs and out-of-date products. Pick up product damaged by an LDF employee or is a manufacture defect.

Collects payments for the delivery in checks or money order. Provides customer with invoice of transaction for product sold, notes all adjustments on the invoice, obtains signature of customer on the invoice and as a driver signs the invoice for verification before leaving the account.

Completes daily check-in procedure and reconciliation. Completes daily deposit and verifies with computer totals.

Reports market trends and competitive activity to supervisor and recommends response, if appropriate.

Any time a truck is backed into a LDF dock the wheels must be chalked.

Performs daily check equipment daily, including vehicle fluid levels, and reports any maintenance or performance problems. This includes cleaning the cab of trash and sweeping out the trailer daily.

Operates Company vehicle according to Fleet Safety Manual to include reporting any and all (company and personal) vehicle accidents immediately to Delivery Supervisor and follow the LDF accident policy as outlined therein and additionally adheres to all DOT regulations.

Performs other duties as determined by the Distribution Manager.

Qualifications: Completion of Company training program. Possess in-depth knowledge of company products: every brand and package sold and benefits of each product; policies; procedures, and operations. Knowledge of State laws regarding the sale of alcohol. Possess grooming and hygiene practices consistent with maintaining good customer relations. Adapts well and is flexible with not having a daily routine.

Education/Experience: High school degree or equivalent. Prefer 3-6 months commercial driving experience and prior route sales or delivery experience.

Language Ability: Interpersonal skills to deal with customers effectively and in a professional, business-like manner.

Math Ability: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Basic understanding of completing and balancing a deposit with product sold.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to understand the basic operation of handheld units and associated software.

Certificates and Licenses: A valid driver's license

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Physical Demands: The physical demands described 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.

Heavy work. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. Requires continuous standing, walking, bending, kneeling, climbing, routine and repetitive pushing/pulling 150-500 lbs., and lifting/carrying 26-50 pounds and occasionally up to 160 pounds. Individual must be physically capable of occasionally moving product into and out of customers' establishments in large volumes in a relatively short period of time. Employee is exposed to outside weather conditions and deals with sudden temperature changes when entering and exiting refrigerated coolers. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus to read information on electronic devices and on paper, and to operate a motor vehicle. Continuous jostling from riding and driving a truck.

Measures:

1. Attendance.

2. Route reconciliation including long and shorts on cash and product.

3. Rotation and Quality Assurance of all delivered and stocked product.

4. Safety, related to all aspects of daily assigned responsibilities.

5. Maintaining consistent professional customer relationships.

6. Vehicle Inspections.

Success Factors:

1. Drive and energy

2. Teamwork

3. Honesty and integrity

4. Accountability and ownership

*Drug Free Workplace and Equal Employment Opportunity*

Come join the LDF Delivery Team!