Route Sales Driver

Route Sales Driver

Responsible for safely driving a commercial motor vehicle over established route to deliver and sell dairy products. Stocks and rotates all products, providing excellent customer service.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities:

• 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• Stock, rotate, and remove out of date, damaged, or unsellable product.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, completing required paperwork daily.
• Maintain assigned truck in a neat and clean condition including inside cab and refrigerated box.

Basic Requirements:

• 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, detailed oriented, and possess excellent communication and customer service skills.

Competencies:

• Communication
• Accountability
• Customer Focused
• Initiative
• Problem-Solving
• Collaboration

Physical Demands:

• 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.

Work Environment:

• 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 in the work environment is usually moderate/high. Wet/slippery work conditions.
• Ability to tolerate frequent temperature changes, hot and cold environments, inside, outside, refrigerated areas, and coolers.

Maola Local Dairies is a farmer-owned cooperative sustainably producing a full suite of nutritious dairy products. Maola processes milk, cream, butter, and dry milk powders through our network of six dairy processing plants. With a keen eye on quality, freshness, and love for the environment, Maola delivers dairy products that are both nutritious and sustainable to our local communities.

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. Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities. This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.